Dorit Petschel, married name Körner (born 1970), is a German historian and teacher.
After the Abitur in 1988, Petschel studied German culture and History at the Pädagogische Hochschule „Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander“ Dresden [de] and at the Technische Universität Dresden respectively until 1993 and obtained the First Staatsexamen for the Higher Teaching Certificate for Grammar Schools with the dissertation Zwischen Rétablissement, Rheinbund und Restauration.
Die sächsische Außenpolitik unter Kurfürst Friedrich August III.
[1][2] Petschel then headed the Geschichte der Technischen Universität Dresden office until 2003.
[3] In this capacity, together with Reiner Pommerin and Thomas Hänseroth [de], she compiled the publication 175 Years TU Dresden, which appeared in 2003, and independently as its volume 3, the standard work Die Professoren der Technischen Universität Dresden, 1828–2003,[4] published on behalf of the Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der Technischen Universität Dresden.