Julius Urbanek

Julius Urbanek (born February 6, 1881 in Vienna ; † April 16, 1949 there ) was an Austrian mechanical engineer and university professor . He was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Julius Urbanek studied at the Technical University of Vienna, after which he was also an assistant there. In 1905 he received his doctorate as Dr. techn. For the Poldi Hütte he worked as a management assistant.

In 1910 he was appointed associate professor at the Vienna University of Technology. In the First World War he was drafted as a Landsturm engineer from 1914. In 1918 he returned as a full professor to the Chair of Mechanical Technology II, Machine Tools and Factory Management (later the Institute for Manufacturing Technology ) at Vienna University of Technology. In 1919 he set up a training workshop on the Getreidemarkt on the site of the former kuk war school . In the academic years 1924/25 and 1925/26 he was dean of the mechanical engineering school, in the academic year 1931/32 he was elected rector of the Vienna University of Technology , and in 1946 he retired .

Urbanek held several patents in the field of machine tool construction . He was Vice President of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects and a member of the Austrian Patent Court .

He died in 1949 at the age of 68.

literature

• 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 Technical University of Vienna, Volume 13, Vienna, Böhlau-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-20113-7 , page 112

Individual evidence

1. ^ TU Vienna: The history of the Institute for Manufacturing Technology (IFT) . Retrieved April 13, 2016.