University of Hamburg

The University of Hamburg, known in German as Universität Hamburg and abbreviated UHH, is a public research university in Hamburg, Germany. It opened on 28 March 1919, created by combining the earlier General Lecture System, the Hamburg Colonial Institute and the Academic College, after years of petitions and a failed first merger plan championed by Senator Werner von Melle. Its first faculties were Law and Political Science, Medicine, and Philosophy and Natural Sciences. During the Weimar Republic it attracted scholars such as Aby Warburg and Ernst Cassirer, who became its principal in 1929. After 1933 about 50 scientists, Cassirer and William Stern among them, had to leave. The faculties were dissolved into interdisciplinary departments in 1969, and in 2005 the Hamburg University of Economy and Politics was merged into the university. The main campus lies in the Rotherbaum district, with affiliated institutes and research centres around the city-state, and seven Nobel Prize winners and one Wolf Prize winner are affiliated with it.