Franz Xaver Kreuter

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Franz Kreuter (born February 21, 1842 in Munich ; † May 17, 1930 ibid) was a German civil engineer and university professor .

Kreuter, son of Franz Jakob Kreuter , studied construction at the Karlsruhe Polytechnic , where he became a member of the Teutonia fraternity . In 1862 he joined the Austrian Southern Railway Company and was involved in the construction of the Innsbruck-Bozen Brenner Railway . From 1868 he was involved in a managerial role in the planning and construction of the Chlumetz- Königgrätz -Geiersberg line. The universal total station he developed was successfully put into practice. After study trips through Switzerland , Italy , France and Great Britain , Kreuter took on a teaching position at the Brno State Trade School in 1875 . In 1889 he accepted a call as a full professor for hydraulic engineering , structural engineering , tunnel construction and routing of traffic routes at the Technical University of Munich . Kreuter, who was one of the last universally active civil engineers, made a special contribution to the theory of bed load conveyance and was awarded in 1892 for a work on the construction of dams . At the beginning of 1912, the Technical University of Karlsruhe, his former alma mater , awarded him an honorary doctorate (as Dr.-Ing.Eh ).

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SURNAME Kreuter, Franz Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreuter, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1930
Place of death Munich