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H. E. Theodor Heuss delivering a speech at the lunch table during his visit to IIT Madras, 1960

Visiting VIPs , Administrators

When Heuss visited, IIT Madras had its office at CLRI and classrooms at A.C. Tech. Heuss was the former President of the Federal Republic of Germany. His term as President ended in 1959, around a year before he visited IIT Madras. 

Seated from left, Prof. Nayudamma (Director of CLRI), a person (yet to be identified),a gentleman likely to be Heuss' translator, Prof. B. Sengupto (Director of IIT Madras) and Dr. Wolfgang Hahn (Mathematics Department). The other persons in the photograph are yet to be identified. 

Collection:
Central Photographic Section Collection
Photograph ID:
001/0022/IMG_0709_1
Album ID:
Event:
Visit of Theodor Heuss
Place:
Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI)
Date:
17 November 1960

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