Johannes Martin Klotsche

(1907-1995) born at Scribner, Dodge County, lived in Fremont and Lincoln. Educator, administrator, served as president from 1946 to 1973 of what became the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, guided the growth of a small teachers college into a large urban university from an initial enrollment of 1,700 students to an enrollment of 25,000 and construction of 20 major buildings, was first provost (later renamed chancellor) when college became part of the University of Wisconsin System in 1956, was also director of Institute of World Affairs in Europe and aided the U.S. Office of Education in organizing a school project in Germany. Consult Milwaukee Journal, May 13, 1956, p. 2 and obituary of February 5, 1995, pp. 1, 17 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, Fall 2002, p. 20.

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