Josef Eckert-Labin

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Josef Eckert-Labin (born November 15, 1881 in Innsbruck as Josef Eckert von Labin , † July 30, 1959 in Vienna ) was an Austrian mechanical engineer and university professor . He was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Josef Eckert von Labin studied mechanical engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, where, after passing the state examination, he worked as an assistant for the construction of water power machines and pumps from 1906 to 1908. In 1908 he joined the Kuk Kriegsmarine as a shipbuilding engineer . In the central war port in Pola was commissioned with the construction of motor boats until 1918 . In 1920 Eckert-Labin became a civil engineer for shipbuilding and marine engineering, and in 1926 the company expanded to include mechanical engineering. In 1921 he temporarily took over the professorship for shipbuilding at the TH Vienna. From 1923 to 1925 he was the technical director of the Linz Aktiengesellschaft shipyard , where he built the first screw ships for the Danube.

From 1927 until his retirement in 1952 he was a full professor for shipbuilding and mechanical engineering at the TH Vienna. From the academic years 1937/38 to the winter semester 1944/45 he was dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and in the academic year 1951/52 he was elected rector of the Vienna University of Technology . As a designer, he specialized in speedboats and river boats .

Josef Eckert died in 1959 at the age of 77. At the Vienna University of Technology, a lecture hall was named after Eckert at the old building for the Electrotechnical Institute.

literature

  • Felix Czeike (Ed.): Eckert-Labin, Josef. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 2, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 122 ( digitized version ).
  • Juliane Mikoletzky, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber (editor): A Collection of Extraordinary Completeness / A Collection of Unusual Completeness: Die Rektorengalerie der Technische Universität Wien / The Gallery of Rectors of the TU Wien . Festschrift 200 Years of the Technical University of Vienna, Volume 13, Vienna, Böhlau-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-20113-7 , page 127

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EI 6 Eckert lecture hall - TU Vienna . Retrieved March 30, 2016.
  2. ^ Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology: Josef Eckert . Retrieved March 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Eckert-Labin, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Labin, Josef Eckert von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian mechanical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH innsbruck
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1959
Place of death Vienna