1990s - concentration, research orientation, internationalization

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  • With the experimentation clause of the new HHG, the Convention clears the way for the establishment of the Kunsthochschule Kassel in the GhK.
  • GhK President Prof. Dr. Hans Brinckmann takes his leave on June 25: After ten years in office, he returns to research and teaching.

  • The University Medal is awarded to Dipl.-Kfm. Dieter Beuermann, retired managing director of the Kassel Student Union.
  • Anneliese Hartleb, former managing director of the Kassel Goethe Society, is awarded the University Medal.

  • The three artistic departments of Visual Communication, Art and Product Design merge and form a joint "Art University Council".

  • The university takes over the Hessian state domain Frankenhausen near Grebenstein, district of Kassel, as an experimental and demonstration project for ecological agriculture and sustainable regional development.

  • For the second time, the "Oscar" goes to students of the GhK: Thomas Stellmach's and Tyron Montgomery's film "Quest" is awarded the "Oscar" for animated film in Hollywood.
  • Prof. Heide Andres-Müller is elected Vice President of the University.

  • With the inauguration of the extension building for electrical engineering and the new institute buildings for biology and chemistry, the construction of the university is completed in 1996/97 according to the planning specifications of the Science Council of 1983.

  • The development plan "GhK 2002" is continued under the motto "Future through concentration".
  • The fourth graduate college is opened.
  • The GhK participates in the establishment of the Gründerzentrum Kassel.
  • The GhK celebrates its 25th anniversary under the motto "Vision and Re-Vision". Almost 30,000 graduates have successfully completed their studies since the GhK was founded.

  • Around 18,200 students are enrolled.
  • President Prof. Dr. Hans Brinckmann is re-elected, Prof. Dr. Regine Gildemeister and Prof. Dr. Herbert Haf are elected vice presidents.

  • The new technical building III/2 is inaugurated. This provides the departments of civil engineering and mechanical engineering with modern research and teaching conditions.
  • The GhK presents its first teaching and study report.





  • The Convention decides on the name "Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel", or GhK for short: as a sign of its profile as a university in international academic contacts and at the same time as a commitment to the innovation concept of the comprehensive university.
  • The German Research Foundation (DFG) accepts the GhK as a member.

  • Prof. Dr. Georg Wannagat, former President of the Federal Social Court. D., receives honorary senator status.
  • The Departments of Agriculture and International Agricultural Science in Witzenhausen merge to form the Department of "Agriculture; International Agricultural Economics and Ecological Environmental Protection".
  • The endowed professorships of Farm Animal Ethology (Schweisfurth Foundation) and Plastics and Recycling Technology (North Hessian Economy) are established.





  • The influx to the GhK continues unabated: more than 16,000 students are now enrolled; overcrowding is growing to more than 200 percent.
  • In its new development concept "GhK 2002", the university calls for increasing the target number of its expansion from 9,000 student places to 12,000.

  • The "20 years young GhK" celebrates with the region and its 18 foreign partner universities.
  • Dr. Gabriele Gorzka becomes Vice President, Prof. Dr. Burkhard Fricke Vice President.
  • The social science diploma program "Work and Technology" is introduced.
  • Prof. Dr. h.c. Ludwig Georg Braun, Chairman of the Board of B. Braun Melsungen AG, President of the Kassel Chamber of Industry and Commerce, becomes Honorary Senator of the GhK.

  • The first German-Soviet University Congress is held at the GhK.
  • For the first time, the "Oscar" for animated film goes to a German filmmaker, GhK student Christoph Lauenstein and his brother Wolfgang for the film "Balance".

  • The foundation stone is laid for a new lecture hall and laboratory building in Witzenhausen. It is occupied in 1993.

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