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1850
HeadquartersFurtwangen, Germany

The Hochschule Furtwangen University (HFU), formerly the Fachhochschule Furtwangen (FHF), is a German University of applied science in Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

HFU was originally founded as a clockmaking school in 1850 by Robert Gerwig. The German Clock Museum, founded by Gerwig in 1852, remains a department of the university to this day. After World War II, the school was split into two branches: one for engineering and the other for job training. The engineering branch became a Fachhochschule when this type of university was introduced in the early 1970s

The Hochschule Furtwangen University has three campuses: Furtwangen (main campus), Villingen-Schwenningen and Tuttlingen.

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