2020

• Arne Burda becomes the new chancellor of Hamburg University of Technology. He takes over from Klaus-Joachim Scheunert, who is retiring.
• In response to the pandemic, the TU Hamburg organizes a completely digital summer semester largely without classroom teaching, as well as a hybrid winter semester
• President Prof. Ed Brinksma is leaving for Rotterdam on September 1, 2020 - Vice President Prof. Andreas Timm-Giel takes over as Acting President
• Professor Irina Smirnova becomes new Vice President Research in succession to Prof. Andreas Timm-Giel
• The Center for Studies and Doctoral Studies is completed as a further building block in the growth course of the Hamburg University of Technology.
• The MintFit Hamburg office moves from the University of Hamburg to the TU Hamburg.

2019

• Hamburg startup initiative "Startup Port" coordinated by TUHH receives award from federal government - 3.5 million euros to strengthen regional startup support
• TU Hamburg celebrates the founding of the new ECIU University with its partners
• TU Hamburg is certified as a family-friendly university for the third time
• As part of its growth, TU Hamburg moves into space in the Hamburg Innovation Port in the inland port area of Harburg
• Professor Kerstin Kuchta takes over the office of Vice President - Teaching from Prof. Söhnke Knutzen.

2018

• Prof. Ed Brinksma takes over the office of President from Prof. Garabed Antranikian in May 2018.
• The Senate approves the growth concept for the Hamburg University of Technology . The aim is to increase both TUHH's engineering education capacities and its clout in research, development and technology transfer. To this end, the university's budget is to increase by a total of 19 million euros over the next five years.
• On May 22, TU Hamburg celebrates its anniversary - 40 years of Hamburg University of Technology.
• As one of the first growth measures, five I3 Labs will be established at the TU following a competitive selection process.

2017

• The University Council elects Prof. Dr. Ed Brinksma as the TUHH’s sixth President
• The Parliament of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg approves the order for a growth concept for the TUHH, which should reach into the year 2028
• TUHH is one of the best technical universities in Germany in the international U-Multirank
• Opening of the incubator ICGT in cooperation between TUTECH and TUHH Startup Dock
• Start of the IT platform ahoi.digital to strengthen IT across universities in Hamburg

2016

• Successul evaluation and extension of the Collaborative Research Center "Tailor-Made Multi-Scale Materials Systems M^3"

2015

• DESY and TUHH conclude cooperation agreement

• Go-ahead for the TUHH and HZG Center for High-Performance Materials

• First junior professorship at the TUHH’s Excellence Research Group for IT Security with partner NXP

• TUHH has over 7,000 students for the first time.

2014

• Foundation of the Hamburg Online University (HOOU) under the TUHH’s aegis

• The TUHH offers a new study program, mytrack, leading to a Bachelor’s degree in eight semesters, with a longer introductory or orientation phase.

• Excellence with a model character: The TUHH establishes with its Excellence Research Group a new form of research funding. In cooperation with business five new junior professorships are established at the TUHH in the areas of Green Technologies, Life Science Technologies, and Aviation & Maritime Systems.

2013

• The TUHH is awarded founder university status by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research; establishment of the TUHH Startup Dock.

• TU & YOU is the new umbrella organization for all alumni activities at the TUHH. Its aim is to promote lifelong links with all TUHH students and staff.

• Hamburg Center for Medical Technology established jointly with the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE).

• Graduate Academy for Technology and Innovation established at the TUHH.

• The TUHH is certified as a family-friendly university.

• The TUHH sets up its first overseas alumni chapter in Mexico City.

2012

• The TUHH again bundles its research potential, defining three competence areas: Green Technologies, Life Science Technologies, and Aviation & Maritime Technologies. In addition, the future cross-sectoral topics New Materials and Digitization are anchored in the TUHH’s profile.

• Inauguration of the new TUHH main building Am Schwarzenberg-Campus 1

2011

• The University Council elects Prof. Dr. Garabed Antranikian as the TUHH’s fifth President.

• An additional vice president for structural development joins the existing presidium.

• The TUHH’s fourth collaborative research center, for Tailor-Made Multiscale Materials Systems, is established.

• Establishment of the TUHH’s Center for Teaching and Learning where extensive teaching innovations are initiated, supported, and evaluated.

• Establishment of a workshop where students develop airships, algae reactors, and small-scale wind power plants independently on the basis of problem-based learning.

2010

• The Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services (CML) is established at the TUHH.

• Project-based learning is introduced at the TUHH. Its further development to task-oriented learning is a milestone in the new didactic alignment in engineering sciences. From now on, students learn and work in small groups.

2009

• The TUHH founds the Laser Zentrum Nord (LZN)

2007

• The TUHH converts all study programs to the bachelor’s and master’s degree system.

• The TUHH implements its first structure and development plan.

• Restructuring of research with the establishment of six focal points of research.

2006

• TUHH research scientists develop independently focal points of research that bundle all forces flexibly and in an interdisciplinary manner.

2005

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Prof. e. h. Edwin Kreuzer becomes the TUHH’s fourth President.

• Fourth DFG graduate college on Seaports for Future-Generation Container Ships is set up.

• TuTech launches jointly with the Schleswig-Holstein Innovation Foundation the Industrial Biotechnology North initiative, which goes on to become the nationwide Biokatalyse2021 cluster, which in turn makes a success of the BioIndustrie2021 project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

2004

• Third DFG graduate college on Art and Technology is founded.

2003

• The TUHH is the first university in Germany to offer a dual study program, supported by the employers’ association NORDMETALL.

• With the support of the entrepreneur Klaus-Michael Kühne the Hamburg School of Logistics is established at the TUHH.

2000

• Ten strategic TUHH research areas are defined.

1999

• The University Council elects Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Nedeß as the TUHH’s third President.

• The Presidium is enlarged by the appointment of a second Vice President, of which there are now two, the VP Research and the VP Teaching..

1998

• Foundation of the Northern Institute of Technology (NIT), Germany’s first institute on a public-private partnership basis. Today the Northern Institute of Technology Management is one of the oldest existing private university-level educational facilities in Germany.

1997

• The TUHH is honored and named a reform university – the first of four – by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.

• The TUHH offers for the first time six international master’s study programs to enable students from overseas and other non-EU countries to study engineering “made in Germany.”

1996

• Establishment of the Foundation for the Promotion of the TUHH

1995

• Second DFG graduate college, on Offshore Structures, established at the TUHH.

1994

• The TUHH is the first German university to offer a bachelor’s study program on General Engineering Science.

• Inauguration of the model Technologiezentrum Finkenwerder (THF), established jointly as a public-private partnership by Airbus and the TUHH

• Third Collaborative Research Center established at the TUHH on the Micromechanics of Multiphase Materials

• The TUHH is a founding member of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU), an international association of young and entrepreneurial universities in Europe.

1993

• The University Council elects Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hauke Trinks as its second President.

1992

• The TUHH founds its first commercial enterprise, TUHH-Technologie GmbH, to promote efficient technology transfer, consistent promotion of business startups and entrepreneurship, continuing education and the development of new ideas by a think tank.

1991

• Global budget: The TUHH is the first German university to gain control over its own human and material resources.

• The TUHH becomes a member of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

• The first graduate college, on Biotechnology, takes up its work.

• The Center for Biomechanics is established by the TUHH jointly with the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, the Boberg accident hospital, and other hospitals.

1990

• Conclusion of a cooperation agreement with Airbus on setting up the Technologiezentrum Finkenwerder and the establishment of the TUHH’s first endowed professorship.

1989

• The second Collaborative Research Center, on Cleaning Contaminated Soils, gets under way.

1988

• The TUHH Senate decides to set up six new focal points of research.

• Foundation stone for the third construction stage (Buildings I and J in Denickestrasse 22) is laid.

1986

• The University Council elects Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Mecking as its first President.

1983

• The Department of Ship Technology is transferred to the TUHH from the University of Hannover.

1982

• Inauguration of the Technikum.

• Cooperation agreement with the GKSS Research Center in Geesthacht (later to become the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht)

1979

• At the constituent meeting of the founding Senate, Hamburg’s Science Senator Hansjörg Sinn describes the tasks of the TUHH and defines its “technology for people” profile.

1978

• The TUHH is founded on May 22, 1978.

• Its founding President is Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hans Günter Danielmeyer.