sentences:  In early 1947, it was moved to a former Luftwaffe barracks in Pinneberg ("Eggerstedt-Kaserne") and renamed the Displaced Person's Study Centre.The University's presidents were Fricis Gulbis (1946–1948), Vladas Stanka (1948–1949) and Eduards Šturms (1949), assisted by three (Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian) national rectors.The Estonian astronomer Ernst Öpik became its first Estonian rector, and the Lithuanian archaeologist, Jonas Puzinas, was Lithuanian rector from April 1948 to September 1949.