Eisleben Engineering School

The Eisleben Engineering School is the direct successor of the Eisleben Mining School. At the end of the 1960s, the sharp decline in mining in Europe, which did not stop at the GDR, forced reflection on the future fate of the traditional educational institution. In view of the rapid development of microelectronics and computer technology and taking into account the school's greatly expanding subject area of mining electrical engineering, the government decided in 1968 to reprofile the Eisleben Mining School into an engineering school for electrical engineering and mechanical engineering and to phase out mining training. In 1971, the last graduates to leave the school were mining engineers of the distance learning course.
With great commitment on the part of the teachers remaining at the school and with many new hires, Director Leithold formed a highly qualified teaching staff consisting of many lecturers with doctorates, who trained engineers for electrical engineering/electronics, mechanical engineering and engineering economists as well as materials economists with excellent technical equipment by GDR standards, who were gladly hired by the country's industry because of their good training and had a considerable share in the so-called "microelectronics program of the GDR". In addition, there were postgraduate courses in the fields of microelectronics, occupational safety, work design and occupational safety as well as computer science. A wealth of continuing education courses, nationally acclaimed conferences and participation in the engineering association "Chamber of Technology" round off the professional profile of these years. The capacity of the school was about 5000 students.

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