 The university 's tenancy of the building sparked a debate regarding the name of the building . Former University President Werner Meissner had started the controversy by renaming it the " Poelzig @-@ Ensemble " ( Poelzig @-@ Complex ) ; to him , renaming the building would free it from associations with Nazism . Students and , in increasing numbers , members of the faculty insisted on confronting the building 's history by retaining its original name , the " IG Farben Building " . Meissner 's successor , Rudolf Steinberg , upheld the university 's decision to retain the name , but he did not enforce a uniform nomenclature within the university 's administration . After the grand opening of the building in 2001 , AStA chairman Wulfila Wido Walter objected to the " misuse of Hans Poelzig " [ sic ] and proposed leaving the name of the main building unchanged , and calling the smaller casino building the " Poelzig Casino " ; this proposal won little support . By 2004 , the " Poelzig @-@ Ensemble " proposal had become a moot point — the debate was overtaken by strong political lobbying for an appropriate commemoration and memorial of remembrance : Vice President Brita Rank set up a permanent exhibition inside the building , and a memorial plaque — for the slave labourers of IG Farben and those who had perished by Zyklon B gas — was installed on the front of the building . The Senate of the University agreed on a joint initiative by the student senator of the Green University group , David Profit , and Angelika Marx the senator of the United Services Union , to name a place on the new campus 's western end after the former slave labourer Norbert Wollheim . 
