History of the department

1938 Lec­ture­ship for Indus­tri­al Fur­nace Construction
1948 Chair of Indus­tri­al Plants and Indus­tri­al Fur­nace Construction
April 1957 Foun­da­ti­on of the Chair of Indus­tri­al Fur­nace Science
Asso­cia­te Pro­fes­sor H. Schiedeßen
1960 Foun­da­ti­on of the Insti­tu­te for Indus­tri­al Fur­nace Con­s­truc­tion and Heat Engi­nee­ring in Metallurgy
Pro­fes­sor H. Schiedeßen
1967 Lec­ture­ship in Indus­tri­al Fur­nace Con­s­truc­tion and Heat Engi­nee­ring in Metallurgy
1971 Lec­ture­ship in Ener­gy and Mass Transport
1971 Reti­re­ment of Pro­fes­sor H. Schwiedeßen
1971–1976 Sub­sti­tu­te Pro­fes­sor Dr.-Ing. Gün­ther Woelk
1976 New appoint­ment of Pro­fes­sor Dr.-Ing. Her­bert Wil­hel­mi to the chair
1996 Reti­re­ment of Pro­fes­sor Dr.-Ing. Her­bert Wilhelmi
1996 Ren­aming of the chair to High Tem­pe­ra­tu­re Technology
11/1996–03/1998 Sub­sti­tu­te Pro­fes­sor Dr.-Ing. Hein­rich Köhne
04/1998 New appoint­ment of Pro­fes­sor Dr.-Ing. Her­bert Pfei­fer to the chair
2004 Ground­brea­king for the buil­ding of the IOB’s new tech­ni­cal centre
2007 50th anni­ver­sa­ry celebration
2009 — 2010 New con­s­truc­tion of the Insti­tu­tes buil­ding in the Koper­ni­kus­str. 10 with an addi­tio­nal tech­ni­cal centre
2017 60th anni­ver­sa­ry celebration