Franz Hafner (forest scientist)

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Franz Hafner (around 1960)

Franz Hafner (born March 16, 1903 in Gösel , Carinthia , † November 23, 1985 in Graz ) was an Austrian forest engineer and university professor.

Life

As the son of the district forester of the same name, Hafner attended elementary school in Wolfsberg (Carinthia) , the lower secondary school in Merano (1914–1918) and the St. Paul high school (1918–1922). After graduating from high school , he studied forestry at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna . In 1926 he left the university as a graduate engineer . He became a member of the Corps Posonia in the same year . He found his first job with Henckel von Donnersmarck in the Lavant Valley . In 1928 he moved to the Hohenwang forest lordship near Langenwang . As assistant to the business manager, he worked in a forest area of ​​5,300 hectares. In 1929 he passed the state examination for forest managers there.

Between 1929 and 1936 he was a surveyor at the Belgian-Turkish Zingal AG in Ayancık on the Turkish Black Sea coast. In the 53,000 ha area with 38,000 ha of forest, he planned and built the cable cars and the forest railway for the transport of felled timber. This activity established the doctoral thesis with which he received his doctorate from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in July 1937. In 1938 he took over the management of Zingal AG. In 1940 he completed his habilitation for forest civil engineering in Vienna.

In 1942, during the Second World War, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , and after completing his weapons training, he was an interpreter on the staff of the German military attaché in Ankara . After the war, the odyssey over the Mediterranean ended in (probably English) captivity until 1946. In Styria , from 1947 to 1952, he was the first head of the newly established department for forestry construction and transport of the Styrian regional chamber for agriculture and forestry. In 1953, his university appointed him professor for the same subject. For the academic years 1967/68 and 1968/69 he was elected its rector . Franz Ackerl wrote a laudatory speech for his 70th birthday .

Honors

Works

By 1972, 108 publications and 8 books by Hafner had appeared.

  • The practice of modern timber transport . Vienna 1952. Translations into Russian (1956), Slovak (1961) and Serbo-Croatian (1968). 2nd German edition Vienna 1964.
  • Forest road and path construction . Vienna 1956.
  • Machines for the mountain forest . Chur 1956.
  • Leveling devices in forest road and path construction. Investigations into the type of use, performance and costs of different size classes of bulldozers and the motor grader Caterpillar No. 12 in forest road and path construction in the mountains . Vienna 1956.
  • The timber transport. Manual for moving, storage, loading procedures and main transport . Vienna 1964.
  • Styrian forest in the past and present - a forest monograph . Vienna 1979.

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 135/64.
  2. ↑ a b c d e F. Ackerl: o. University professor Dr. nat. techn. Franz Hafner - 70 years . Centralblatt for the entire forest system (1973), pp. 53-62.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The economic viability of building forest railway bridges taking into account wood consumption .
  4. ↑ a b Peter Höhn: The Zingal AG forest railway in Ayancık (2011)
  5. ^ Habilitation thesis: The construction of forest paths and roads .
  6. ↑ Hafner, Franz (boku.ac.at)
personal data
SURNAME Hafner, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian forest engineer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Gösel , Carinthia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1985
Place of death Graz , Styria , Austria