From the University Chronicles

January - August 1946	Medical and clinical training courses in the State Hospital in Homburg/Saar.
8.3.1947	Opening of the "Centre Universitaire d'Études Supérieures de Hombourg" for students of medicine, initially under the auspices of the University of Nancy.
13.11.1947	"Institut d'Études Supérieures de Hombourg".
1.2.1948	First courses in philosophy and natural science.
15.2.1948	First courses in jurisprudence.
9.4.1948	At the meeting of the Administrative Board in Paris, the following resolutions were passed: the College of Higher Education was to be transformed into a university Founding of Saarland University Relocation of the non-medical faculties to Saarbrücken
15.11.1948	Matriculation of the first students at the University. Inauguration of Saarland University. First courses in law, philosophy and interpreting held in the former Below Barracks. First Rector of the University: Professor Jean Barriol
15.12.1948	Cultural agreement between the Saarland and France.
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Robert Schuman, visits the new university in 1948.
Since the summer of 1949	Courses at the "Akademie der Arbeit" Institute for Vocational Education Institute for Metallurgy
3.4.1950	Statutes of Saarland University.
October 1950	Second Rector of the University, Joseph-François Angelloz, assumes office.
November 1950	Relocation of the Natural Science Faculty to Saarbrücken.
1951	European Institute founded.
Mai 1952	The association "Friends of the University" founded.
Matriculation celebrations, November 1952
23.10.1955	Rejection of the "Saar Statute" in a referendum.
November 1955	Founding of the Centre d'Etudes Juridiques Françaises (now Centre Juridique Franco-Allemand).
October 1956	Professor Dr. Heinz Hübner is appointed as the first German Rector. Reorganization of Saarland University
26.10.1956	Cultural agreement between the Saarland and France Foundation of the "Institut Français".
1.1.1957	Accession of the Saarland to the Federal Republic of Germany.
26.3.1957	Higher Education Act passed by the government of the Saarland.
24.5.1957	Saarland University joins the Association of West-German Universities.
1958-1960	Rector Prof. Heinz Diedrich Wulff
1960-1962	Rector Prof. Dr. Helmut Stimm
1962-1964	Rector Prof. Dr. Gerhard Kielwein
1964-1965	Rector Prof. Dr. Conrad von Fragstein
1965-1967	Rector Prof. Dr. Hermann Krings
1967-1969	Rector Prof. Dr. Werner Maihofer
1969-1973	Rector Prof. Dr. Hellmuth Sitte
1973-1979	President Prof. Dr. Hans Faillard
1979-1983	President Prof. Dr. Paul Müller
1990	Faculty of Technology established.
1983-1992	President Prof. Dr. Richard Johannes Meiser
1992- 2000	President Prof. Dr. Günther Hönn
2000- 2006	Presidentin Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel
seit 01.11.2006	President Prof. Dr. Volker Linneweber

The Saarbrücken campus in the early 1950s.