Gustav Fabritz

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Gustav Fabritz (born July 19, 1895 in Vienna , † July 17, 1953 in Munich ) was an Austrian water turbine engineer .

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Gustav Fabritz was the son of a tax office administrator of the same name (1863–1929) and his wife Maria (1871–1939). The paternal grandfather was the Finance Councilor Anton Fabritz. The maternal grandfather was the tax officer Johann Imeidhof. Fabritz himself married Anna (* 1899) in Munich in 1925. She was a daughter of the Bavarian court carriage manufacturer Ludwig Kufner (1864–1941). The couple had a son who died in the war.

Fabritz studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna and then worked as Artur Budau's assistant . After receiving his doctorate in 1920, he switched to industry as a designer of water turbines and regulators . As a capable and talented employee, he quickly achieved management positions in the hydropower engineering sector. He dealt with machines for large hydropower and pumped storage plants, including controllers for Kaprun and a 68,000 hp turbine for a plant in Rodund .

Fabritz constructed an ingenious type of water turbine regulator that has proven itself over decades. He published extensively and achieved an international scientific reputation, especially due to his standard work published in 1940 on "The regulation of power machines with special consideration of the water turbine regulation". In 1934 he was to succeed Viktor Kaplan as professor at the TH Brno . In 1942 he was appointed full professor at the TH Prague , where he stayed until the end of the Second World War . In 1948 he took over the chair for hydropower machines at the TH Munich .

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SURNAME Fabritz, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian water turbine engineer
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1953
Place of death Munich