Executives of the University of Karlsruhe and Its Predecessor Institutions

Gustav Friedrich Wucherer (Professor of Physics, Pastor, b. 1780, d. 1843)
Director 1826–1833
_{Image source: University Archives of Freiburg D 13/577
Photographer: P. Wagner}

Friedrich August Walchner (Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, b. 1799, d. 1865)
Director: 1833–1836
_{Image source: Karlsruhe City Archives 8 PBS III 1664
Author: Kaufmann}

Wilhelm Ludwig Volz (Professor of Technology, *1799, +1855)
Director: 1836–1840
_{Image source: KIT Archives 28010 I/3023
Author unknown}

Karl Bader (Professor of Hydraulic Engineering and Civil Engineering, b. 1796, d. 1874)
Director: 1840–1845
_{Image source: Franz Dor: Edle Männer unserer Heimat – schlichte Lebensbilder, Karlsruhe 1920, p. 8
Author: unknown}

Carl Heinrich Albert Kayser (Professor of Mechanics, b. 1798, d. 1870)
Director: 1845–1848
_{Image source: Karlsruhe City Archives 8/PBS III 769
Author: unknown}

Johann Ludwig Klauprecht (Professor of Forestry, b. 1798, d. 1883)
Director: 1848–1857
_{Image source: KIT Archives 10001/2454
Author: unknown}

Ferdinand Redtenbacher (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, b. 1809, d. 1863)
Director: 1857–1863
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010 I/2810
Photographer: Rudolf Schram}

Moritz Seubert (Professor of Zoology and Botany, b. 1818, d. 1878)
Director: 1863–1864
_{Image source: KIT Archive 10001/2503
Photographer: Theodor Schuhmann}

Jakob Hochstetter (Professor of Architecture, b. 1812, d. 1880)
Director: 1864–1866
_{Image source: KIT Archive 10001/2445
Author: unknown}

Hermann Sternberg (Professor of Engineering, b. 1825, d. 1889)
Director: 1866–1867, 1875–1876
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2841
Photographer: unknown}

Franz Grashof (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, b. 1826, d. 1893)
Director: 1867–1869, 1872–1873, 1882–1883, 1885–1886
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2313
Artist: Theodor Schuhmann and Son Studio}

Christian Wiener (Professor of Descriptive Geometry, b. 1826, d. 1896)
Director: 1869–1870, 1881–1882
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3071
Artist: Adalbert Uëtz}

Heinrich Lang (Professor of Architecture, b. 1824, d. 1893),
director: 1870–1871, 1879–1880
_{Image source: KIT Archive 10001/2463
Creator: Schuhmann}

Wilhelm Schell (Professor of Mathematics, b. 1826, d. 1904)
, Director: 1871–1872.
_{Image source: KIT Archive 10001/2493
, Photographer: Theodor Schuhmann}

Franz Grashof (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, b. 1826, d. 1893)
Director: 1867–1869, 1872–1873, 1882–1883, 1885–1886
. _{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2313
. Photographer: Atelier Theodor Schuhmann and Son}

Reinhard Baumeister (Professor of Engineering, b. 1833, d. 1917)
Director: 1873–1874, 1884–1885, President: 1895–1896
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2078
Author: unknown}

Adolph Knop (Professor of Mineralogy, b. 1828, d. 1893)
Director: 1874–1875
_{Image source: missing}

Hermann Sternberg (Professor of Engineering, b. 1825, d. 1889)
Director: 1866–1867, 1875–1876
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2841
Author unknown}

Jacob Lüroth (Professor of Mathematics, b. 1844, d. 1910)
Director: 1876–1877
_{Image source: Kunstbibliothek Berlin
Artist: Atelier Theodor Schuhmann and Son}

Carl Birnbaum (Professor of Chemistry, b. 1839, d. 1887)
Director: 1877–1878
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 1485
Author: unknown}

Leonhard Sohncke (Professor of Physics, b. 1842, d. 1897)
Director: 1878–1879
_{Image source: Deutsches Museum Munich, Archive B 3501-1
Photographer: unknown}

Heinrich Lang (Professor of Architecture, *1824, +1893)
Director: 1870–1871, 1879–1880
_{Image source: KIT Archive 10001/2463
Author: Schuhmann}

Josef Hart (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, b. 1832, d. 1915)
Director: 1880–1881, 1887–1888, President: 1897–1898
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010 I/2362
Credit: Atelier Theodor Schuhmann & Sohn}

Christian Wiener (Professor of Descriptive Geometry, b. 1826, d. 1896)
Director: 1869–1870, 1881–1882, 1891–1892
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3071
Artist: Adalbert Uëtz}

Franz Grashof (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, b. 1826, d. 1893)
Director 1867–1869, 1872–1873, 1882–1883, 1885–1886
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2313
Photographer: Atelier Theodor Schuhmann and Son}

Carl Engler (Professor of Chemistry, b. 1842, d. 1925)
Director: 1883–1884, Rector 1898–1899.
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2231
Author: unknown}

Reinhard Baumeister (Professor of Engineering, b. 1833, d. 1917)
Director: 1873–1874, 1884–1885, President: 1895–1896
. _{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2078
. Author: unknown}

Franz Grashof (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, b. 1826, d. 1893)
Director: 1867–1869, 1872–1873, 1882–1883, 1885–1886
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2313
Artist: Atelier Theodor Schuhmann and Son}

Leopold Just (Professor of Botany, b. 1841, d. 1891)
Director: 1886–1887
_{Image source: Deutsches Museum Munich, Archive PT Krause Album 3730
Photographer: Schulz & Suck Studio}

Josef Hart (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, b. 1832, d. 1915)
Director: 1880–1881, 1887–1888; President: 1897–1898
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010 I/2362
Photographer: Theodor Schuhmann & Sohn Studio}

Karl Schuberg (Professor of Zoology, b. 1865, d. 1939)
Director: 1888–1889, 1893–1894
_{Image source: missing}

Matthäus Haid (Professor of Geodesy, b. 1853, d. 1919)
Director: 1889–1890, 1894–1895; Rector: 1901–1902
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2350
Author: unknown}

Ernst Schröder (Professor of Mathematics, b. 1841, d. 1902)
Director: 1890–1891
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2944
Author: unknown}

Christian Wiener (Professor of Descriptive Geometry, b. 1826, d. 1896)
Director: 1869–1870, 1881–1882, 1891–1892
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3071
Photographer: Adalbert Uëtz}

Karl Keller (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, b. 1839, d. 1928)
Director: 1892–1893
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2466
Author: Theodor Schuhmann and Son Studio}

Karl Schuberg (Professor of Zoology, b. 1865, d. 1939)
Director: 1888–1889, 1893–1894
_{Image source: missing}

Matthäus Haid (Professor of Geodesy, b. 1853, d. 1919)
Director: 1889–1890, 1894–1895; President: 1901–1902
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2350
Author: unknown}

Reinhard Baumeister (Professor of Engineering, b. 1833, d. 1917)
Director: 1873–1874, 1884–1885; President: 1895–1896
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2078
Author: unknown}

Hans Bunte (Professor of Technical Chemistry, b. 1848, d. 1925)
President: 1896–1897
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2114
Author: Oscar Suck}

Josef Hart (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, b. 1832, d. 1915)
Director: 1880–1881, 1887–1888; Rector: 1897–1898
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010 I/2362
Artist: Atelier Theodor Schuhmann & Sohn}

Carl Engler (Professor of Chemistry, b. 1842, d. 1925)
Director: 1883–1884; President: 1898–1899
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2231
Author: unknown}

Ernst Adolf Brauer (Professor of Mechanical Engineering, b. 1851, d. 1934)
President: 1899–1900
_{Image source: 28010/I 2106
Copyright holder: unknown}

Otto Lehmann (Professor of Physics, b. 1855, d. 1922)
President: 1901–1902
_{Image source: 28010/I 2570
Author: unknown}

Matthäus Haid (Professor of Geodesy, *1853, +1919)
Director: 1889–1890, 1894–1895; Rector: 1901–1902
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2350
Author: unknown}

Adolf von Oechelhäuser (Professor of Art History, b. 1852, d. 1923)
Rector: 1902–1903, 1909–1910
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2698
Author: unknown}

Ludwig Klein (Professor of Botany, b. 1857, d. 1927)
Rector: 1903–1904, 1913–1914
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2475
Author: unknown}

Friedrich Schur (Professor of Mathematics, b. 1856, d. 1932)
President: 1904–1905
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2926
Author: unknown}

Xaver Siefert (Professor of Forestry, b. 1849, d. 1920)
President: 1905–1906
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2861
Author: unknown}

Engelbert Arnold (Professor of Electrical Engineering, b. 1856, d. 1911)
President: 1906–1907
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3636
Photographer: Atelier Th. Schumann and Son}

Theodor Rehbock (Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, b. 1864, d. 1950)
President: 1907–1908, 1916–1917, 1925–1926
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2747
Photographer: Foto Bauer}

Adolf Krazer (Professor of Mathematics, b. 1858, d. 1926)
Rector: 1908–1909, 1914–1915
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2494
Author: unknown}

Adolf von Oechelhäuser (Professor of Art History, b. 1852, d. 1923)
Rector: 1902–1903, 1909–1910
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2698
Author: unknown}

Paul Stäckel (Professor of Mathematics, b. 1862, d. 1919)
President: 1909–1910
_{Image source: https://www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de/staeckelpaul.html (May 27, 2026)
Author: unknown}

Georg Benoit (Professor of Lifting Equipment, b. 1868, d. 1953)
Rector: 1911–1912, 1921–1922
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2085
Author: Oskar Suck}

Otto von Zwiedineck, Baron von Südenhorst (Professor of Economics, b. 1871, d. 1957)
President: 1912–1913
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3126
Author: unknown}

Ludwig Klein (Professor of Botany, b. 1857, d. 1927)
President: 1903–1904, 1913–1914
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2475
Photographer: unknown}

Adolf Krazer (Professor of Mathematics, b. 1858, d. 1926)
President: 1908–1909, 1914–1915
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2494
Author unknown}

Udo Müller (Professor of Forestry, b. 1864, d. 1923)
President: 1915–1916
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2657
Author: unknown}

Theodor Rehbock (Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, *1864, +1950)
President: 1907–1908, 1916–1917, 1925–1926
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2747
Photographer: Foto Bauer}

Hans Hausrath (Professor of Forestry, b. 1866, d. 1946)
President: 1917–1918
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2403
Author: unknown}

Richard Graßmann (Professor of Steam Engines, b. 1864, d. 1938)
President: 1918–1919
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2344
Photographer: unknown}

Wilhelm Paulcke (Professor of Geology, b. 1873, d. 1949)
Rector: 1919–1920
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2708
Author: unknown}

Otto Ammann (Professor of Railway Engineering, b. 1879, d. 1933)
President: 1920–1921
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2057
Creator: Atelier Gebrüder Hirsch}

Georg Benoit (Professor of Lifting Equipment, b. 1868, d. 1953)
President: 1911–1912, 1921–1922
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2085
Photographer: Oskar Suck}

Georg Bredig (Professor of Physical Chemistry, b. 1868, d. 1944)
President: 1922–1923
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2133
Author: unknown}

Richard Baldus (Professor of Mathematics, b. 1885, d. 1945)
President: 1923–1924
_{Image source: Michael von Renteln: The Mathematicians at the Karlsruhe University of Technology (1825–1945), Karlsruhe 2002, p. 17
. Author: unknown}

Karl Caesar (Professor of Architecture, b. 1874, d. 1942)
Rector: 1924–1925
_{Image source: KIT Archive 10001/2419
Author: unknown}

Theodor Rehbock (Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, b. 1864, d. 1950)
Rector: 1907–1908, 1916–1917, 1925–1926
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2747
Author: Foto Bauer}

Emil Probst (Professor of Reinforced Concrete Structures, b. 1877, d. 1950)
Rector: 1926–1927
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2722
Author: unknown} 

Hans Kluge (Professor of Machine Elements and Automobiles, b. 1881, d. 1958)
Rector: 1927–1928, 1933–1935
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2476
Author: unknown}

Karl Wulzinger (Professor of Art History, b. 1886, d. 1948)
President: 1928–1929
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3063
Author: Ilse Laurson, née Schmidt}

Alfred Stock (Professor of Chemistry, b. 1876, d. 1946)
President: 1929–1930
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2847
Author: unknown}

Rudolf Plank (Professor of Technical Thermodynamics and Refrigeration Engineering, b. 1886, d. 1973)
President: 1930–1931, 1945–1946
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2715
Author: unknown}

Karl Holl (Professor of Literary History, b. 1886, d. 1971)
Rector: 1931–1933
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2434
Author: Foto Bauer
For more on Holl, see the remarks by Klaus-Peter Hoepke in his monograph *Geschichte der Fridericiana*. Milestones in the History of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) from its Founding in 1825 to the Year 2000, ed. by Günther Grünthal et al., Karlsruhe 2007 (= Publications from the Karlsruhe University Archives 1) , p. 117.}

Hans Kluge (Professor of Machine Elements and Automobiles, *1881, +1958)
Rector: 1927–1928, 1933–1935
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2476
Author: unknown}

Heinrich Wittmann (Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, b. 1889, d. 1967)
Rector: 1935–1937
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3055
Photographer: Foto Bauer
For more on Wittmann, see the remarks by Klaus-Peter Hoepke in his monograph *History of the Fridericiana: Milestones in the History of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) from Its Founding in 1825 to the Year 2000*, edited by Günther Grünthal et al., Karlsruhe 2007 (= Publications from the Karlsruhe University Archives 1) , pp. 121, 123ff.}

Rudolf Weigel (Professor of Lighting Technology, b. 1899, d. 1955)
Rector: 1937–1945
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3035
Author: unknown
For more on Weigel, see the remarks by Klaus-Peter Hoepke in his monograph *History of the Fridericiana: Milestones in the History of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) from Its Founding in 1825 to the Year 2000*, edited by Günther Grünthal et al., Karlsruhe 2007 (= Publications from the Karlsruhe University Archive 1) , pp. 118, 123–130.}

Karl Georg Schmidt (Professor of Geology, b. 1902, d. 1976)
Rector: 1945
_{Image source: KIT Archive 10001/2496
Author: unknown
For more on Schmidt, see Klaus-Peter Hoepke’s remarks in his monograph *History of the Fridericiana*. Milestones in the History of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) from its Founding in 1825 to the Year 2000, ed. by Günther Grünthal et al., Karlsruhe 2007 (= Publications from the Karlsruhe University Archives 1) , p. 125.}

_{Rudolf Plank (Professor of Technical Thermodynamics and Refrigeration Engineering, b. 1886, d. 1973)
Rector: 1930–1931, 1945–1946
Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2715
Author: unknown}

Theodor Pöschl (Professor of Mechanics, b. 1882, d. 1955)
Rector: 1946–1947
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2719
Photographer: Foto Bauer}

Hans Jungbluth (Professor of Mechanical Technology, b. 1894, d. 1966)
Rector: 1947–1948
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2452
Author: unknown}

Paul Günther (Professor of Physical Chemistry, b. 1892, d. 1969)
President: 1948–1949
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2323
Photographer: unknown}

Ernst Terres (Professor of Fuel Chemistry, b. 1887, d. 1958)
President: 1949–1950
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2973
Photographer: Foto Bauer}

Hermann Backhaus (Professor of Theoretical Electrical Engineering and Low-Current Technology, b. 1885, d. 1958)
President: 1950–1952
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3215
Author: unknown}

Otto Haupt (Professor of Architecture, b. 1891, d. 1966)
President: 1952–1954
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2368
Photographer: unknown}

Rudolf Scholder (Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, b. 1896, d. 1973)
President: 1954–1956
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2914
Photographer: Foto Bauer}

Guntram Lesch (Professor of Electrical Systems and High-Voltage Engineering, b. 1899, d. 1956)
President: 1956
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2572
Author: unknown}

Kurt Nesselmann (Professor of Technical Thermodynamics, b. 1896, d. 1975)
President: 1956–1958
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2670
Author: unknown}

Hans Leussink (Professor of Foundation Engineering, Tunnel Engineering, and Construction Management, b. 1912, d. 2008)
President 1958–1961
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2574
Author: unknown}

Johannes Weissinger (Professor of Applied Mathematics, b. 1913, d. 1995)
President: 1961–1963
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3040
Author: unknown}

Paul Schulz (Professor of Lighting Technology, b. 1911, d. 1993)
President: 1963–1965
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2924
Author: unknown}

Klaus Lankheit (Professor of Art History, b. 1913, d. 1992)
Rector: 1965–1966
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2603
Author: unknown}

Hans Rumpf (Professor of Mechanical Process Engineering, b. 1911, d. 1976)
Rector: 1966–1968
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2759
Author: unknown}

Heinz Draheim (Professor of Geodesy, b. 1915, d. 2012)
President: 1968–1983
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2196
Photographer: Thilo Mechau}

Heinz Kunle (Professor of Geometry, b. 1928, d. 2012)
President: 1983–1994
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3625
Author: unknown}

Sigmar Wittig (Professor of Thermal Fluid Machinery, b. 1940)
President: 1994–2002
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3096
Photographer: Deck}

Manfred Schneider (Professor of Mathematics, b. 1937)
Executive Director: 2002
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 2956
Author: unknown}

Horst Hippler (Professor of Physical Chemistry, b. 1946, d. 2024)
President: 2002–2009, Chairman: 2009–2012
_{Image source: KIT Archive 28010/I 3529
Author: Andrea Fabry}