Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering

  • 1868: Chair of Civil Engineering Hydraulics at the Polytechnic Institute, Chair professor: Prof. W. Frauenholz
  • 1877: Renaming of Polytechnic Institute to „Technische Hochschule München“ (equal ranking with all public universities in Bavaria)
  • 1868-1893: Lecture series on hygiene and public health by Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, Bavarian chemist and hygienist and first Professor of Hygiene in Germany (Ludwig-Maximilian University)
  • 1881-1909: Separation of „Urban water supply and drainage“ unit led by Associate Professor A. Frank
  • 1909: Appointment of Prof. K. Hager. Integration of “Wastewater treatment” unit, led by Oberregierungsrat L. Sommer, later Regierungschemierat Dr. M. Streller (until 1925)
  • 1919: Retirement of Prof. Hager, interim chair Oberregierungsrat L. Sommer
  • 1924-1925: Interim chair Prof. O. Schreck
  • 1925-1945: Establishment of the Chair “Urban Civil Engineering“, Chair: Prof. A. Göller
  • 1940-1945: Lectureship “Sanitary engineering, water supply, and drainage design” by E. Stecher
  • 1946: Appointment of Prof. Dr. h.c. A. Rucker to lead the chair „Urban Civil Engineering “
  • 1965: Establishment of new Chair and Institute “Water Resource Management and Sanitary Engineering. Appointment of Prof. Dr.-Ing. G. Müller-Neuhaus
  • 1971: Sudden death of Prof. Müller-Neuhaus. Interim chair Prof. Hartung (Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering)
  • 1973: Appointment of Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. Bischofsberger
  • 1974: Renaming to “Chair and Testing Authority of Water Quality and Sanitary Engineering “
  • 1991-2004: Appointment of Prof. Dr.-Ing. P. A. Wilderer. Renaming to “Chair and Testing Authority for Water Quality Control and Solid Waste Management“
  • 2003: Prof. P.A. Wilderer’s awarded the "Stockholm Water Prize"
  • 2004-2005: Interim Chair Prof. M. Faulstich (Chair of Resource and Energy Technology)
  • 2005-2011: Appointment of Prof. Dr. H. Horn and renaming to „Chair of Water Quality Control “
  • 2012-2013: Interim chair Prof. Dr. B. Helmreich
  • 2013: Appointment of Prof. Dr.-Ing. J. E. Drewes and renaming to “Chair of Urban Water Systems Engineering“