Herbert Trenkler

Herbert Trenkler (around 1983)

Herbert Trenkler (born December 28, 1907 in Königshof (Bohemia) , † June 20, 1992 in Leoben ) was an Austrian engineer and mining scientist.

Life

Grave of Herbert Trenkler at Leoben Central Cemetery (May 2018)

Trenkler studied physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1926 . In 1926 he became active in the Corps Suevia Munich . Since he wanted to turn to metallurgy , he switched to the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben in 1927 after the reception . There he immediately became a two-band man in the Corps Montania. In three semesters he distinguished himself as a senior . After graduating, he became an assistant at the Leoben Institute for Metallurgy, where he wrote his doctoral thesis . To the Dr. Ing. , From 1933 he was a steelworks assistant at Dillinger Hütte and Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen. In 1940 he came to the steelworks in Hagondange as director . From 1944 he headed the Reichswerke Hermann Göring in Watenstedt (Salzgitter) . In the post-war period in Austria he took over the management of a VÖEST steel mill in 1946 . Since 1947, director of the works, he played a key role in the development of the Linz-Donawitz process . The Montanuniversität Leoben appointed him to the chair of iron and steel engineering in 1958 . In 1962/63 and 1963/64 he was rector of the Montanist University. Until his retirement in 1977 he was also the head of the institute. From 1958 to 1978 he was a board member and chairman of the Austrian Ironworks Association . Trenkler died on June 20, 1992 at the age of 84 in Leoben and was buried at the central cemetery in Leoben ; his wife Leonie (1910–1995) died three years later and was buried at his side.

Honors

• Gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria
• Ring of Honor of the State of Styria
• Big Ring of Honor of the City of Linz
• Dr. Karl Renner Prize of the City of Vienna, with Otwin Cuscoleca, Felix Grohs, Robert Hauttmann, Fritz Klepp, Wolfgang Kühnelt, Rudolf Rinesch, Kurt Rösner for the invention of the LD process (1959)
• Austrian Badge of Honor and Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art
• Wilhelm Exner Medal from the Austrian Trade Association
• UNESCO Science Prize
• Peter Tunner medal from the Austrian Society for Metallurgy and Materials Technology
• Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art (1970)
• Honorary member of the Association of German Ironworkers

See also

• List of corps student rectors

literature

• Herbert Trenkler Sueviae Munich, Montaniae 75 years old . Deutsche Corpszeitung 84 (1983), pp. 93-94.
• Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau 45 (1992), p. 460.

Web links

• Biographical data on Herbert Trenkler (metallurgy.ac.at)
• Herbert Trenkler (Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation)

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 159/1799; 102/151
2. ^ Wiener Rathauskorrespondenz , December 12, 1959, sheet 2461; Vienna City Hall correspondence , January 23, 1960, sheet 114.