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Benno Brausewetter (born September 6, 1869 in Vienna ; † May 22, 1965 ibid) was an Austrian industrialist and civil engineer .

Life

Benno Brausewetter, son of Viktor Brausewetter , the founder of the concrete construction company Pittel and Brausewetter , was just as interested in the construction industry and after graduating from high school he devoted himself to studying civil engineering at the Technical University in Vienna, which he completed in 1894 with the second state examination. Immediately afterwards, he joined his father's company, for which he was in charge of the construction work on the power plants in Lend and in the Gastein Valley and on the Trisanna near Landeck .

In 1926, after the death of his father, Benno Brausewetter was entrusted with the management of the Austrian Concrete Association, which he held until 1938. After the Second World War he was made honorary president . In 1932, Brausewetter was also awarded honorary academic citizenship of the Vienna University of Technology , in the same year the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and in 1944 on the 50th anniversary of his state examination the degree of engineering degree. In 1955 the Bauergasse in Vienna-Donaustadt in Brausewettergasse Brausewetter was in his honor , he donated the Benno Brausewetter Prize, a prize for diploma theses , created at Austrian universities, where the use of the building material concrete in planning, construction, calculation and Execution were treated in an excellent way, is awarded, died in Vienna in 1965 and was buried in an honorary grave at the Evangelical Cemetery Simmering .

literature

• Wiener Zeitung of November 6, 1949, page 4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of Academic Honorary Citizens of the Vienna University of Technology In: www.tuwien.ac.at
2. ^ Street names in Vienna In: www.austriasites.com
3. ↑ Benno-Brausewetter-Preis In: mibla.tugraz.at

Web links

• Article Benno Brausewetter In: www.evangelischerfriedhof11.at