Fritz Franz Maier

Fritz Franz Maier (born July 19, 1844 in Znojmo , Moravia , † December 15, 1926 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ship designer.

Fritz Franz Maier, son of a military doctor, was interested in since his childhood in Venice for the shipbuilding industry . He studied from 1861 to 1865 at the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna. He then worked at shipyards in Trieste, Budapest, the USA, England and Scotland. He was the Austrian representative in the international study commission to investigate the navigability of the rivers of Siberia and then head of river regulation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was there that he developed the uncompleted drina boats. From 1898 he devoted himself entirely to reducing the inherent resistance and increasing seaworthiness by developing a ship shape with a gliding hull (" Maier shape "). Despite successful towing tests in the shipbuilding research facility of Norddeutscher Lloyd in Lehe (Bremerhaven) , the Austro-Hungarian navy only built a tender in this form during the First World War.

In 1927, after Maier's accidental death, his sons Erich and Werner Maier founded Maier-Schiffsform-Verwertungs-GmbH in Bremen and New York. In 1928 the first Maier Vienna ocean-going ship was launched.

literature

• Viktor Schützenhofer:  Maier, Fritz Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 701 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Habacher:  Maier Fritz Franz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 424 f. (Direct links on p. 424 , p. 425 ).

Web links

• Entry on Fritz Franz Maier in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )