Hugo Strache
Hugo Julius Strache (born April 10, 1865 in Dornbach , Lower Austria , today a district of Vienna , † November 4, 1927 in Vienna) was an Austrian chemist .
Life
Hugo Strache was born as the son of the politician Franz Eduard Strache (1815-1894) and grew up in Vienna. After graduating from a secondary school, Strache moved to the Technical University of Aachen in 1883 , and only one year later, in 1884, to the Technical University in Vienna. In 1886 he moved to Switzerland in order to obtain his doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1887 .
With the support of a scholarship, he began to work at the University of Vienna in 1888 and was a research assistant to several well-known chemists, including Josef Pohl and Alexander Bauer . 1891 habilitation Strache in the field of organic chemistry , just six years later, in 1897, store lighting system and industrial manufacturing plants his Habilitation in. Between 1892 and 1895 Strache was also a scientific adviser to the working group for water pipes, lighting and heating systems, a forerunner of today's infrastructure ministry .
In 1899 Strache moved to Brussels , where he was general director of the Société internationale du gaz d'eau brevet until 1905 . In 1904 he was also largely responsible for building the water gas works in Piran . In 1905 Strache moved back to his homeland when he accepted a position as professor at the Technical University of Vienna. Here he founded a research institute for gas lighting, fuels and combustion systems in 1909. After a separate subject for the gas and lighting industry was launched in 1913 , Strache took over the leadership of that course as professor in the same year. When the subject of fuels, combustion systems and gas lighting was founded in 1919 , Strache also became its scientific director. From 1919 to 1921 Hugo Strache was dean of the university for two years.
In parallel to his educational and scientific activities, Strache was also active as a company founder in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands . In these companies, employees offered to install water gas systems . He also acted as a management consultant for numerous independent companies.
His invention of the so-called double gas , the stone and brown coal was carbonized completely, he even said on Patent Office , whose member he was since 1909th Up to 60 patents in the field of water gas, be it for chemical devices or technical systems, recently ran in Strache's name. He also wrote about 250 scientific papers.
Hugo Strache died in November 1927 at the age of 62.
Strachegasse
Since 1940, bears the Viennese district Simmering the Strachegasse the name of the chemist. This was briefly known throughout Austria in September 2010, when, in the run-up to the state and municipal council elections, members of the Greens and parts of the SPÖ demanded that it be renamed Hugo-Strache-Gasse . One wanted to avoid associations of the alley with the FPÖ federal party chairman Heinz-Christian Strache . But the application was rejected by the responsible SPÖ City Councilor for Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny .
literature
- M. Pesditschek: Strache Hugo. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 338 f. (Direct links on p. 338 , p. 339 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hugo Strache in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strache, Hugo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strache, Hugo Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dornbach , Lower Austria , today a district of Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4, 1927 |
| Place of death | Vienna |