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His Excellency Baron Dietrich von Mirbach at IIT Madras, 1967

Academic Facilities , Administrators , Faculty

This photograph appears to have been taken in a Civil Engineering Laboratory owing to the fact that Prof. P. C. Varghese from the Civil Engineering Department is present and also the fact that the chart heading behind Prof. Varghese reads ‘Bituminous Materials’.

During his visit, Baron von Mirbach visited the various departments of the Institute. He visited IIT Madras a few months after the signing of the Second Indo-German agreement which aimed to establish 5 laboratories and complete the 20 laboratories which were in progress. The agreement was an effort to further the development of IIT Madras through a collaboration between India and Germany. A number of German professors were a part of IIT Madras by the time the second agreement was signed.

Seen in the photograph are, from left, Prof. P. C. Varghese (Head of Civil Engineering Department), Prof. B. Sengupto (Director of IIT Madras), Baron von Mirbach (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany), Dr. Edgar Reichel (Consul-General in Madras) and Prof. S. Sampath (Deputy Director, extreme right).

Collection:
Central Photographic Section Collection
Photograph ID:
001/0013/IMG_0459_1
Album ID:
Event:
Visit of Baron Dietrich von Mirbach
Date:
6 January 1967
Place:
Civil Engineering Laboratory

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