History

Year	Events
1938	Foundation of the “School of Chemistry, Dr. Szelinkski” in Heilbronn for the training of chemotherapy technicians.
1953	The school board was taken over by Dr. F. Künkele.
1955	Relocation of the school from Heilbronn to Landau / Pfalz. Establishment of the training developed at this school for the education of science technicians.
1958	The school was renamed “Naturwissenschaftliches Technikum”. Training courses started for medical technical assistants (MTA).
1964	Development and expansion through the uptake of training courses for biological technical assistants (BTA) and chemical technical assistants (CTA).
1968	Training courses started for Pharmaceutical technical assistants (PTA).
1973/74	Acquisition of school management and board by Prof. Dr. R. Baumgartner.
1981	Training courses started for environmental technical assistants (UTA).
1992	Recognition as a UNESCO School.
1994	Acquisition of the school by the teaching staff in the form of “a cooperative to promote scientific and technical education eG”. The school was subsequently renamed “Naturwissenschaftliches Technikum Dr. Künkele“ (NTK).
2008	The NTK was given the approved operation of a dual system of vocational high school education(dual BOS). Modules of the training course for BTA’s were considered as “comparable to the quality standards of bachelor’s degree programs at German universities” and accredited by the Higher Education Accreditation Agency AQAS.
2014	Start of the PTA training courses in Mainz.