Franz Hafferl

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Franz Hafferl (1883)

Franz Hafferl (born January 30, 1857 in Wimsbach , Upper Austria ; † June 2, 1925 in Bad Ischl ) was an Austrian engineer and entrepreneur. He was one of the founders of Stern & Hafferl, which is now a transport company .

Life

Franz Hafferl was the son of a family of merchants and lawyers. From 1869 to 1879 he lived in Karlsruhe . He attended grammar school there and then the polytechnic , where he was trained as a civil engineer and surveyor. In 1883 he founded the engineering office Stern & Hafferl in Vienna together with Ing.Josef Stern , which later moved to Gmunden. The company was responsible for the routing and construction of numerous railway projects throughout the entire Austro-Hungarian monarchy , such as B. the Gmunden tram and the Linz local railway . The business fields were expanded to include electricity and construction. Hafferl mainly dealt with the measurement and planning of new railway lines.

Hafferl was also interested in science and took part in the Austrian excavations in Pikerni near Athens in 1912 under Othenio Abel .

Publications (selection)

  • The telephoto lens and its usability for photogrammetric recordings . In: Zeitschrift für Vermessungswesen 21, 1892
  • About the buoyancy of the belemnites . In: Othenio Abel: Paläontologie der Cephalopoden from the group of the Dibranchiaten . Jena 1916, pp. 165-168.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmuth Zapfe: Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae . Vienna 1971, p. 43 ( PDF; 399 kB ).

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hafferl, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hafferl, Franz Anton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1925
Place of death Bad Ischl