51猎奇

With a student enrolment of over 48,000, 51猎奇 is the third largest university in Germany. In the 2019 Shanghai academic ranking of world universities, it ranks among the top 100-150, and among the top 5-7 within Germany.

51猎奇 astrophysicists contribute to the first image of a black hole, the breakthrough scientific achievement announced by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration in April 2019. Simulations carried out by the team headed by Professor Luciano Rezzolla using supercomputers were fundamental for the interpretation of the results.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visits 51猎奇 in September 2018 on the occasion of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW) congress 鈥淭he Limits of Democracy." In his half-hour talk he recognises the important role 51猎奇 has played historically in the social sciences, and encourages more active involvement of political scientists in public debates.

France's President Emmanual Macron visits the 51猎奇 and discusses his vision for Europe with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Gilles Kepel and 51猎奇 students.

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Formation of the Rhine-Main University Alliance: 51猎奇, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Technische Universit盲t Darmstadt form a strategic alliance, collaborating in research, teaching, continuing education and the exchange of ideas.

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51猎奇 celebrates its 100th anniversary. The centenary celebration programme covering the whole year featured more than 100 events. Official ceremonies included the Mayor's New Year reception for 51猎奇, and the official centenary ceremony with Federal President Joachim Gauck in the Paulskirche on 18 October 2014. This was followed in the evening by large celebrations on Campus Westend and ended with a magnificent firework display.

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The development of the Westend Campus and the biggest relocation in the university's history are largely complete. The Minister President of the State of Hesse, Volker Bouffier, and University President Prof. M眉ller-Esterl, ceremonially open the new buildings of the Faculties of Psychology, Educational Science, and Social Sciences (PEG) as well as the Governing Board and the Administration (PA) on Campus Westend.

In addition to university buildings, the House of Finance and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History are also located on the campus.

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The German Research Foundation (DFG) renews its support for the Clusters of Excellence 鈥淭he Formation of Normative Orders鈥�, 鈥淐ardiopulmonary System鈥�, and 鈥淢acromolecular Complexes鈥�. This means a further 75 million euros will have been invested in top university research by 2017. 

The philosopher Prof. Rainer Forst, co-spokesperson for the Cluster of Excellence 鈥淭he Formation of Normative Orders鈥�, is awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz prize, endowed with 2.5 million euros, by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 鈥� DFG).

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The Dalai Lama speaks to 200 invited guests in the auditorium on the Bockenheim Campus and has over 2,500 online viewers watching the live stream provided by the university computer centre. 51猎奇 is placed among the world's top 100 universities in the Shanghai rankings for the first time and comes in sixth place among German universities.

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The Haus der Stille (House of Peace) opens on Westend Campus as a place of retreat at GU where members of all religions and cultures can meet to pray, meditate, and spend a moment of silence together.

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GRADE, the Goethe Graduate Academy, takes up work with an aim to improve the education and research conditions for junior researchers in the natural and life sciences. In the following year the senate decides that GRADE is to become a platform for doctoral candidates from all departments at 51猎奇.

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Return to the legal form 厂迟颈蹿迟耻苍驳蝉耻苍颈惫别谤蝉颈迟盲迟: university foundation under public law. 51猎奇 enjoys greater autonomy and the ability to generate income through endowment funds.

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51猎奇 procures three Clusters of Excellence: 鈥淢acromolecular Complexes鈥�, 鈥淭he Formation of Normative Orders鈥�, and 鈥淐ardiopulmonary System鈥� (together with the Gie脽en University). All three are extended by another support period in 2012.

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The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) is inaugurated. The independent research institution serves as a superstructure for basic research, bringing together theorists from the disciplines of biology, chemistry, neuroscience, physics, and computer science.

51猎奇 wins a commitment of 鈧�1.2 billion from the state of Hessen to create the three campus concept by 2014: Westend (new main campus), Riedberg (natural sciences), and Niederrad (medicine).

The university expands to two new locations: Riedberg Campus (natural sciences) and Westend Campus (humanities). Pictured here: the Biocentre at the Riedberg Campus.

A new Hessen-wide university law provides the student body with a stronger voice in university governance, including rights of co-determination in university matters. 

Groundbreaking for the new Institute for Chemistry at a location northwest of Frankfurt (completed in 1972).

Student protests break out at 51猎奇 following the attempted assassination of Rudi Dutschke and his call to exert 鈥減ressure on the imperialistic USA". The Socialist German Student Union occupies the university. Prominent thinkers of the Frankfurt School become their intellectual role models, albeit partly unwillingly. When the Institute of Social Research is occupied by students in 1969, Adorno has them evacuated by the police.

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The state of Hesse takes over university funding. The city of Frankfurt had not been able to carry its half of the costs since 1965.

3000 students gather in the summer of 1967 to demonstrate their solidarity with the student Benno Ohnesorge who was shot and killed in Berlin.

With Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno and Friedrich Pollock back in Frankfurt, the Institute for Social Research reopens. Other scientists and scholars also return to 51猎奇 from exile, such as the economist Fritz Neumark, the biophysicist Friedrich Dessauer, and the physician Oscar Gans.

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The university reopens after the end of World War II. The first elected rector is Walter Hallstein. In 1958, he became the first president of the European Commission.

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Heavy bombing in the night damages or completely destroys numerous university institutes. The university hospital is hit by over 800 firebombs.

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Because of the war, the university opens with a simple speech by the rector Richard Wachsmuth to professors and students in the auditorium and 鈥渜uietly" takes up its teaching programme.

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The foundation contract for the 鈥�K枚nigliche Universit盲t zu Frankfurt am Main" (Royal University at Frankfurt on the Main) is signed at the 搁枚尘别谤, Frankfurt's town hall. Royal permission is granted on 10 June 1914. Several scientific facilities are incorporated into the newly founded Frankfurt University: the Institute of Common Weal, the Academy for Social and Trade Sciences, the Institute of the Dr Senckenberg Foundation and the scientific associations proceeding from it - the Senckenberg Naturforschung Gesellschaft and Physics Union, Ludwig Edinger's Neurological Institute, the Carolinum Foundation. In addition to the traditional faculties for medicine, law, and philosophy, independent faculties for economics and social sciences, and for natural sciences exist. There is no faculty for theology.