Josef Stern (entrepreneur)
Josef Stern (born March 18, 1849 in Ebenau near Salzburg , † March 22, 1924 in Gmunden ) was an Austrian building contractor and civil engineer. He is considered a pioneer of rail, electricity and mining technology in Austria.
Stern was born the son of an in-house doctor at the Ebenauer Eisenwerke . He attended high school in Salzburg and intended to become a university lecturer in mathematics and physics. Due to the already beginning hearing loss, he completed his civil engineering degree at the Technical University in Vienna . From 1872 he worked for Carl von Schwarz on the plans for the Aspang Railway . In 1877 he invented a geodetic total station . In 1883 he founded the engineering office Stern & Hafferl in Vienna together with Franz Hafferl and in 1887 the construction company Stern & Hafferl OHG . From the beginning, numerous railway projects were created and then carried out throughout the entire Austro-Hungarian monarchy . The Salzkammergut local railway from Salzburg to Bad Ischl , the Schafbergbahn (rack railway) and the Gmunden tram led to the company moving to Gmunden in 1893. In 1892/93 the caloric steam power plant in St. Wolfgang , in 1894 one in Gmunden and subsequently numerous hydropower plants (the Traunfall plant in 1902) were put into operation, and in 1906 the electricity works Stern & Hafferl AG was founded. With the construction of numerous other hydropower plants and overhead lines, Stern created the rapid and comprehensive supply of electrical power in most of Upper Austria and beyond. Several local railways in Upper Austria were built and are still in operation today. The Vienna University of Technology awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1911 for his services to technical development in the energy sector. He was also known as the author of specialist books such as Die Ökonomik der Lokalbahnen , Die Dampftramway, Bau und Betrieb and Der Steinabsturz und seine Versicherungsbauten . On March 29, 1912 Josef Stern was made an honorary citizen of the city of Gmunden , and on November 3, 1912 by Faistenau .
“After a three-day sick camp”, chief building officer Josef Stern died on March 22, 1924 in Gmunden, where he was buried on March 25 of that year
literature
- Heinrich Marchetti: Stern & Hafferl. Visions with tradition, 1883–2003. Stern & Hafferl Holding, Gmunden 2003, ISBN 3-9501763-0-6 .
- H (Einrich) Marchetti: Stern Josef. 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. 226 f. (Direct links on p. 226 , p. 227 ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz Klein: J. Stern's total station (PDF; 2.2 MB)
- ↑ digitized version
- ↑ The Board of Directors and the Management (…) (obituary). In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt (No. 21396/1924), March 25, 1924, p. 2, top left. (Online at ANNO ). .
Web links
- Biography at nachrichten.at ( Memento from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Biography ( Memento from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stern, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pioneer of rail, electricity and mining technology in Austria |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1849 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ebenau near Salzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1924 |
| Place of death | Gmunden |