Max Ussar

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Max Boris Ussar (born July 11, 1919 in Maribor , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; † January 14, 2015 ) was an Austrian engineer , heat engineer and university professor . From 1962 to 1983 he was head of the then Institute for Heat Technology and Industrial Furnace Construction at the Montanistische Hochschule / Montanuniversität Leoben .

He was related to Siegfried Ussar (* 1933), a former member of the Styrian state parliament, local politician, teacher, school director and honorary citizen of the city of Leoben .

Life & work

Max Boris Ussar was born on July 11, 1919 as the son of Max (1891 – around 1945) and Maria Anna Ussar (1898–19 ??; née Čuček) in the city of Maribor, which was part of the administrative unit of the Province of Slovenia, in the then Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes born near the border with Austria. A year later the sister Ingeborg (1920-2014) was born. After graduating from high school in 1938 at the Royal High School in his hometown, he began a technical course at the Technical College for Mechanical Engineering in Darmstadt , which was renamed the Darmstadt City Engineering School in 1939 . He also enrolled in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich . In autumn 1940 he enrolled at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , where in January 1942 he passed his main diploma examination at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in the field of gas and fuel with very good results.

After graduating, he was employed as a technical and tidy assistant at the gas institute of his alma mater , but soon had to do his military service in World War II . After he returned from captivity , he began his dissertation in 1945 with Wilhelm Petrascheck , the father of Walther E. Petrascheck , at the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben . In May 1948 Ussar received his doctorate degree. From 1947 to 1950, Ussar was employed as a research assistant and assistant at the chair for combustion technology in Leoben. Subsequently, he worked as a freelance thermal engineer at the Austrian-Alpine Mining Company until 1954 and then from 1954 to 1959 as a department head at Ruhrgas AG in Essen . From 1959 to 1961 he acted as managing director of Eisenhütte Südwest and head of the Saar heating branch of the Düsseldorf energy and business administration office .

In 1962 he followed the call to the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben , which in 1975 was renamed Montanuniversität Leoben , or MUL for short , on the basis of the 1975 University Organization Act . As a full university professor for heat engineering and metallurgy, he was also appointed director of the institute of the same name, which was also known as the institute for heat engineering and industrial furnace construction. In 1970, Ussar founded together with Karl Bergmann, the then director of Wienerberger , and Dipl.-Ing. Gerhart, the then General Director of Perlmooser Zementwerke , the Austrian Society for Keeping the Air Clean (ÖLR). Just one year later, together with the two men mentioned, he founded the Institute for Environmental Protection and Emissions Issues (IUE), where Ussar was the scientific director and Wolfgang Felbermayer (1943 / 44–2017) was appointed managing director. In 1982 both ÖLR and IUE, both of which had their headquarters at Montanuni Leoben, were dissolved again.

When it came to many issues relating to environmental protection, Ussar was always years ahead of its time and was often referred to as a pioneer of industrial environmental protection. The period of his work as a university professor is one of the most important in the history of the chair at the Montanuni Leoben, both in terms of the number of supervised dissertations and diploma theses and in terms of the development of new departments. In 1983 Ussars retired as a university professor; Nevertheless, he remained loyal to the university for decades and often appeared as a speaker or at public events at the university. His successor as head of the Institute for Heat Technology, Industrial Furnace Construction and Energy Management was Christian God , who was in charge until 2000. Ussar, who also made private efforts to protect the environment and was a member of the Austrian Alpine Club , lived in the cadastral community of Neuhofen bei Seckau until his death and was most recently the oldest inhabitant of his home community.

Ussar died on January 14, 2015 at the age of 95.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Harald Raupenstrauch: 1911–2011: 100 years chair for thermal process technology . In: ASMET; BVÖ (ed.): BHM Berg- und Hüttenmännische monthly books . Volume 156, Issue 9. Springer Science + Business Media , Leoben 2011, p. 339-342 .
  2. ↑ a b Official website of the Chair for Thermal Process Technology at the Montan University Leoben , accessed on May 26, 2019
  3. ↑ Alpenverein Leoben - Nachrichten - Summer 2015 , accessed on May 27, 2019
  4. ↑ The market town of SECKAU informs - Edition 2014/2 , accessed on May 27, 2019
  5. ↑ Triple M, Journal of the University of Leoben, issue 1/2015, p. 10
  6. ^ Seckauer Bote - Bulletin of the parish Seckau - Autumn 2015, p. 9 , accessed on May 27, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ussar, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ussar, Max Boris (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian engineer, heat technician and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Maribor , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2015