Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects
The Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects (ÖIAV) is a classic and very old engineering association. At times this institution had a great influence on the architecture and technology policy of Austria-Hungary and the Republic of Austria.
history
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The association was founded in the course of the liberalization of associations in the course of the revolution on June 8, 1848, initially as the "Austrian Engineering Association". The XIV Assembly of German Architects and Engineers met in Vienna in 1864. After that the association was expanded to become the "Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects". In the course of its history a very large number of the most prominent engineers and architects in Austria belonged to it.
Its seat is at Eschenbachgasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna . The building, which is owned by the Austrian Trade Association and known as Palais Eschenbach , was opened in its northwestern part on November 16, 1872 in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I as a club house . The ceremonial opening act was concluded (in the absence of the emperor) on December 2, 1872 with a banquet, where the table speeches referred to the special achievements of the client, the Lower Austrian trade association located in the south-eastern part ( grain market ) , as well as, related to the reference was made to the upcoming Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 .
Until the final terms of the Palais Eschenbach, the club had to move several times in the Inner City: The first club house, three rooms on the third floor, was in the Weihburggasse the 4 Pereirapalais which (1812-1855) of the Vienna Stock Exchange used has been. In October 1848 the association's headquarters were at Teinfaltstrasse 10 (formerly: 72), then until 1850 in a hall of the estate country house in Herrengasse , from 1857 in the Schönbrunn House ( Graf von Wiesend's foundation house ) on Tuchlauben 8 (formerly: Inner City No. . 562). While the association had fourteen members when it was founded in 1848, in 1865 (through the addition of the architects) there were already 778 members, 526 of whom lived in Vienna.
In August 1938 (after the ÖIAV had been deleted from the register of associations by the new rulers) the old engineering house was taken over by the NS-Bund Deutscher Technik and declared by Gauleiter Odilo Globocnik to be the first house of technology in Ostmark . In consultation with Fritz Todt , the head of the NSBDT , expansion and redesign of the house were tackled.
The association's committees deal with issues relating to the training of engineers and general technical training, with “European engineers”, with public relations work and with the subject of “young academics”. As early as 1897, at the instigation of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Culture and Education, the ÖIAV had to revise the regulation of the examination and certification system of the technical colleges (today universities). Even then, the imperial-ministerial requirement was a. a shortening of the study period. From 1891 the ÖIAV campaigned intensively for the technical universities of Austria-Hungary to receive the right to award the academic degree of " Doctor of Technical Sciences ". This was established for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Imperial Council by law of April 13, 1901.
The association journals of the ÖIAV reflect the technological and architectural developments over time and are an important source for historical research. Digital copies are located both in the Anno system of the Austrian National Library and at other research institutions. The current journal of the association is called the Austrian Engineers and Architects Journal .
A large number of well-known Austrian engineers were members of the ÖIAV, e.g. For example the automobile pioneers Siegfried Marcus , Ferdinand Porsche , the turbine technician Viktor Kaplan , the ground mechanic Karl Terzaghi , tunnel builder Leopold Müller or Peter von Rittinger (inventor of the heat pump). Important non-Austrian members include the electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla from old Austria, the architect Armand Weiser and the architect Zaha Hadid , London.
The official history of the association names Carl von Ghega as a well-known member. His technical considerations on the construction of the Semmering Railway were not shared by the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects before the Semmering Railway was put into operation, and his person and his work were sometimes met with polemical hostility.
literature
- Memorandum to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects . R (udolf) v (on) Waldheim, Vienna 1873, full text
- Carl Stoeckl, Franz Krauss (Ill.): The Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects 1848 to 1898. Festschrift published by the association to celebrate its fifty-year existence . Schroll, Vienna 1899, OBV .
- Arbitration Rules of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects . Publishing house of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects, Vienna 1904, OBV .
- Franz Musil (Red.): Festschrift des Österr. Association of engineers and architects on the occasion of the celebration of its 75th anniversary . Austrian State Printing Office, Vienna 1923, OBV .
- Fritz Willfort (Ed.): Report on the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Austrian engineer u. Architects Association. June 7-11, 1923 . Verlag des Verein, Vienna 1923, OBV .
- F (ritz) Willfort (ed.): The centenary of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects. June 3-8, 1948 . Sn, Vienna 1948, OBV .
- Festschrift 150 years of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects . Verlag des Verein, Vienna 1998, OBV .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The grand opening of the club house . In: Wilhelm Tinter (Red.): Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects . Issue 17/1872 (XXIV. Year), ZDB -ID 2534647-7 . Waldheim, Vienna 1872, pp. 431–436. - Online (PDF; 5.5 MB) .
- ^ Negotiations of the association. Weekly meeting on October 21, 1865 . In: Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects . Issue 12/1865 (17th year), ZDB-ID 2534647-7. Waldheim, Vienna 1865, p. 264 f. - Online (PDF; 4 MB) .
- ^ Vienna receives a "House of Technology". In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt , No. 235/1938 (LXXII. Year), August 27, 1938, p. 6, top right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Decree of the Ministry for Cultus and Education regarding the granting of the right to award doctorates to the technical universities of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrathe. In: Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrathe , year 1901, RGBl. 1901/37, p. 153, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .