Photographs

Participants of the D. A. A. D. Seminar, 1968

Visiting VIPs , Administrators , Institute Events

This photograph was taken at the seminar organized by the German Academic Exchange Service (D. A. A. D.) in January 1968. This seminar was attended by over 50 Indian grantees of German scholarships. There were also former scholarship holders in attendance. The sign board in the photograph has the words “Seminar for former scholarship holders of the German Academic Exchange Service [DAAD]” written on it.

The D. A. A. D. was founded in 1925, offering merit-based grants to students from other countries to study in various universities in Germany. According to German News Weekly, around 500 Indians had received scholarships under the programme between 1952 and 1968.

Seen in the photograph, in the first row, from left, Mr. C. V. Sethunathan (Registrar, first from left), Prof. Gerhard Rouve (Civil Engineering Department, third from left), Prof. A. Ramachandran (Director of IIT Madras, sixth from left), Mrs. Lehnartz (seventh from left), Dr. Emil Lehnartz (President, D. A. A. D., eighth from left) and Prof. S. Sampath (Deputy Director of IIT Madras, third from right).