English Translation

91 2 and this is only possible if they live completely in the atmosphere of the technical university and are constantly moving in its area. Only in this way can the constant mutual professional and personal contact be ensured. From my 20-year teaching experience, I know how carefully the selection of teachers for the mathematical and natural sciences has always been treated and how largely the technical faculties have always been involved. In all cases where these chairs were attended by professors who only or mainly taught at a university, the full understanding of the special needs of the technical universities could not be achieved at all, or only after a long time. As a result, students in the higher semesters might have been able to acquire mathematics, physics and chemistry, but they lacked any understanding of their application to solve practical tasks. I can well say that this problem was always one of the most important and difficult in the construction of the technical universities and that every technical university was anxious to recruit as teachers for the mathematical and natural sciences such scientists who either grew out of engineering studies or had taught at a technical university as a private lecturer or a professor for at least a very long time. Only in these cases could a satisfactory result be achieved.