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His Excellency Baron Dietrich von Mirbach at IIT Madras, 1967

Academic Facilities , Administrators , Faculty

Baron von Mirbach visited IIT Madras a few months after the Second Indo-German agreement was signed in New Delhi. The signing of the agreement kicked off the establishment of 5 laboratories. It also made provisions to 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.

In the photograph, from left, Prof. S. Sampath (Deputy Director), Dr. Edgar Reichel (Consul-General in Madras), Mr. Baron von Mirbach (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany), Prof. Gerhard Rouve (Civil Engineering Department) and Prof. B. Sengupto (Director of IIT Madras). Prof. Rouve previously worked as a chief engineer at Rehbock-Laboratory (Hydraulics) and as a technical advisor in Hydraulic Structures to the Ministry of Public Works at Ankara (Turkey) to work on projects such as dams, water power, irrigation, river improvement and so on.

Collection:
Central Photographic Section Collection
Photograph ID:
001/0013/IMG_0460_1
Album ID:
Event:
Visit of Baron Dietrich von Mirbach
Date:
6 January 1967

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