Ulm University, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Just under six years later, on 25 February 1967, Kiesinger, who was the Chancellor of Germany by then, joined Founding Rector Prof. Ludwig Heilmeyer together with the new State Premier Dr. Hans Filbinger for the foundation ceremony of the Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Hochschule Ulm (higher education institution for medicine and natural sciences). On 4 July of the same year, the institution was given the official status of a university. Just under six years later, on 25 February 1967, Kiesinger, who was the Chancellor of Germany by then, joined Founding Rector Prof. Ludwig Heilmeyer together with the new State Premier Dr. Hans Filbinger for the foundation ceremony of the Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Hochschule Ulm (higher education institution for medicine and natural sciences). On 4 July of the same year, the institution was given the official status of a university.

The most visible and for the further expansion most important step was the integration of the University into the 'Science City Ulm' at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s.

The University assumed and maintains a central and driving role and successively initiated the establishment of numerous public and industrial research and development institutions in its immediate environment, most of which collaborate closely with the University.