Gerhard Palfinger

Gerhard Palfinger (born July 28, 1938 in Vienna ; † May 23, 2000 ) was a geodesist , university lecturer and civil engineer in Vienna and Lower Austria and in the 1990s president of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Architects and engineering consultants .

Around 1965 he became a university assistant at the Vienna University of Technology with Friedrich Hauer and received his dissertation in 1974 on the subject of transition bends . Later lecturer in engineering geodesy , he became honorary professor at the geodetic institute in the 1980s .

As an engineering consultant based in Mödling near Vienna, he made a name for himself above all with the surveying and structural optimization of high-rise buildings in panel construction and also gave lectures on specialist conferences.

Other fields of activity were quality control in building construction and photogrammetry . Elected President of the Austrian Federal Chamber of Engineers in the 1990s, he became involved a. a. for a new version of the professional code for civil engineers. In 1997 he founded the APC Photogrammetrie Ziviltechniker GesmbH in Vienna 18 with Gerhard Stolitzka (BoKu Vienna) and other civil engineers .

Publications (selection)

• Contributions to the determination of zeros for transcendent curves by iteration methods . Dissertation, Vienna University of Technology 1974.
• with Gerhard Möslinger: From data smog to clean information . Proceedings "Geodesy traditionally progressive", 78th German Geodetic Day, Mainz 1994.
• Geometer - a job with a future. Proceedings 9th International Geodetic Week, Innsbruck 1997 ( online ).
• Code of professional conduct for civil engineers . Discussion in KONSTRUKTIV No. 187, Vienna 1995.
• with Stefan Kollarits: Localized regulation . 10. Internat. Geodetic Week, Obergurgl 1999.

literature

• Hans Polly: In memoriam Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Gerhard Palfinger (1938-2000). In: Austrian Journal for Surveying and Geoinformation. Vol. 88 (2000), no. 3, p. 200 f. ( PDF ).