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The HTW campus

The HTW Berlin (a university that emerged from former universities in the GDR) moved to the new campus in the Wilhelminenhof in Berlin Oberschöneweide in 2009. This means that the HTW is very close to the new Berlin science city of Adlershof, practically just on the other side of the Spree.

The entire HTW campus is located on the site of the former Kabelwerke Oberspree (KWO), which was once part of the AEG works. The old villa of Emil Rathenau, who founded the AEG (Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft) in 1887, is right next to the campus. On the other side of the villa are the buildings of the former N.A.G. works, in which the cars, trucks and buses of the AEG offshoot N.A.G. (first Neue- and then Nationale Automobil Gesellschaft) were built. Until AEG decided to give up automobile manufacturing in 1934, NAG was one of the major German automobile brands and employed over 5,000 people. The winning car of the first race on the Avus in 1921 was a NAG. In 1932, the first German car with a V8 engine was produced here. NAG was the main supplier for the famous Berlin double-decker buses of the 20s and early 30s! While car production was simply discontinued, the truck and bus division was transferred to the Büssig works in Braunschweig, which were then taken over by MAN in the 1970s.

Link to HTW Berlin: www.htw-berlin.de

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