Audience at Open Air Theatre (OAT) during the visit of Dr. H. E. Heinrich Luebke
Institute Events , Visiting VIPs
Dr. Luebke (President of the Federal Republic of Germany) was born on 14th October 1894, in Enkhausen near Arnsberg, Westphalia. He served in World War I from 1st August 1914 until December, 1918. He won the Iron Cross (first and second class). By the end of the war, he had earned the rank of lieutenant. He later worked in agriculture and politics. He was elected a member of the first Federal German Parliament on 14th August 1949. Later on, in the same year, Luebke became Chairman of the Committee on Food, Agriculture and Forests. In 1959, he was nominated and elected Federal President. K. M. Kripanarayan (1965 batch- Civil Engineering) writes in the 15th December 1962 edition of Campastimes, in his article titled ‘President Luebke Lays the Foundation Stone of I.I.T. Madras’, “The student gallery was packed to the full in spite of the Davis Cup Match”. Das Bundesarchiv from Germany has documented a video of the President’s visit to India. Titled Der Staatsbesuch in Indien, the technicolour video shows roughly two minutes footage of President Luebke in Chennai and IIT Madras. It can be seen from the video that the students all turned out in white for the occasion.
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