Paul Klunzinger

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Paul Klunzinger (born May 26, 1828 in Güglingen , † October 18, 1919 in Vienna ) was a German railway and hydraulic engineer in the Austrian service.

Life

Paul Klunzinger was born as the son of the pastor, writer and local researcher Karl Klunzinger . After graduating from school, he studied civil engineering at the Stuttgart Polytechnic from 1842 to 1849 . On February 2, 1847, he was one of the founders of the Stauffia Association, later the Stauffia Corps .

After completing his studies, he went to Italy for a short time before he was involved in various railway construction projects as an engineer in Austria from January 1850. From the eighties of the 19th century he worked as a hydraulic engineer. In this area he was mainly active as an expert .

As an inventor, Klunzinger developed new brakes and wagon couplings. He was granted patents for a safety coupling for railway vehicles and a safety brake for railway wagons.

The Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects paid tribute to him with an article on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

Projects

  • Vienna river regulation
  • Isar water level fixation
  • Austrian waterways north of the Danube (Vienna-Krakow)
  • Studies of locks, weir and hydroelectric systems
  • Site plan for the upper barrier of the Vienna Danube Canal

Awards

  • 1876 ​​International Exhibition Philadelphia Commemorative Medal awarded by the United States Centennial Commission
  • Commemorative coin of the royal trade school Stuttgart, Wilhelm König von Württemberg
  • Commemorative coin of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce on the occasion of the World Exhibition in Paris 1900
  • Commemorative coin for the construction of the Arlberg tunnel

family

Paul Klunzinger was married to Anna Mauch since 1854. The marriage resulted in two daughters and four sons. His son Paul (* 1858) became an architect, his son Richard (* 1865) a doctor in Steyr. His brother Carl Benjamin Klunzinger was a tropical doctor and zoologist.

Fonts

  • The narrow-gauge mining railway from Rostocken to Marksdorf in Hungary , 1875
  • Contribution to the solution of the task of determining the course of the flood from the course of precipitation , 1882
  • Project of the vaulting of the Wien River within the boundary of the municipality of Vienna , 1882
  • About the relationship of the river regulation systems to the course of the floods , 1886
  • Communications about the III. international inland shipping congress in Frankfurt a. M. , 1889
  • The Vienna Danube Canal as a shipping canal , 1891
  • The 5th International Inland Navigation Congress in Paris 1892 , 1893
  • Expert opinion on the finalization of the Mur regulation works in the stretch from Graz-Radetzky Bridge to the Styrian-Hungarian border , 1894
  • The German-Austro-Hungarian Association for Inland Shipping , 1897
  • The regulation of the Iron Throne and the other cataracts on the lower Danube and the results of the large-scale shipping after its opening on October 1st, 1898 , 1899
  • The design of the Vienna Danube Conal to the port , 1919

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Carl Heydt: Chronik des Corps Stauffia zu Stuttgart , 1960, p. 115
personal data
SURNAME Klunzinger, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German railway and hydraulic engineer in Austrian service
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Güglingen
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1919
Place of death Vienna