Freie Universität Berlin
The Free University of Berlin—Freie Universität Berlin, or FU Berlin—was founded on 4 December 1948 in West Berlin, at the start of the Cold War. Its name was not a branding choice; it reflected West Berlin’s self-image as part of an intellectual “free world,” set against Soviet-controlled East Berlin. With American support, the university acted as the de facto Western continuation of the pre-1945 University of Berlin, which reopened in 1946 under Soviet administration. Today, you find FU Berlin’s main campus in Berlin-Dahlem, in this Steglitz-Zehlendorf area. The university is internationally known for research across the humanities, social sciences, and natural and life sciences, and it was the first Berlin university to be designated a “University of Excellence” under Germany’s Excellence Initiative. That distinction has been won in three consecutive rounds—2006/2007, 2012, and 2019—a national feat shared by only six universities. …
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