The University of Hanover (German: Universität Hannover, informally LUH) is a public research university located in the city of Hanover, Germany. Founded in 1831, it is one of the largest and oldest science and technology universities in Germany. Together with the Technical University of Braunschweig and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover it forms the TU9 German Institutes of Technology e.V..
The university’s most notable alumni include Nobel laureates Fritz Haber, Max Planck and Otto Stern; physicist Werner Heisenberg; mathematician David Hilbert; political scientist Hannah Arendt; chemist Walter Nernst; engineer Carl von Linde; presidents Paul von Hindenburg and Ernst Thälmann; prime minister Ludwig Erhard; writer Günter Grass; and entrepreneur Karl Albrecht.
The University of Hanover has been host to numerous scholars over its long history. Today, there are around 14,000 students enrolled at the university, which has a staff of over 2,700 academics from more than 80 countries. The university offers over 200 degree programs in 11 faculties: Agriculture and Horticulture, Architecture and Landscape Planning, Business Administration and Economics, Chemical Engineering/Environmental Technology, Civil Engineering/Geodetic Sciences/Surveying Engineering , Computer Science/Mathematics , Electrical Engineering/Information Technology , Humanities/Social Sciences , Law , Mechanical Engineering /Process Engineering / Textile Technology .