Paula Embacher
Paula Embacher (born December 10, 1908 in Vienna ; † October 8, 1996 in Saalfelden , Salzburg) was an Austrian geodetician and the first female engineering consultant for surveying.
After graduating from high school, she studied surveying at the Technical University of Vienna and graduated as the first Austrian geodetician in the early 1940s with the status of Dipl.-Ing. from. As such, she was active in federal surveying and in 1944 married Wilhelm Embacher , who later became a Viennese university professor , with whom she had three children.
In 1949, shortly after the birth of her third child, Paula Embacher received her doctorate - again as the first geodetician - with a dissertation on degree measurement by Joseph Liesganig . Simultaneously with her, her husband Wilhelm also received his doctorate on the subject of equalization accounting. In addition to this rare event, the then TH Rector Friedrich Hopfner was also a geodesist and set a special date for the married couple and their children in July 1949.
At the end of the 1950s (as a woman despite some resistance) she was authorized to be an engineering consultant for surveying and founded a civil engineering office in Saalfelden, which she expanded to include a branch in Vienna-Alsergrund in 1964 after her husband's habilitation .
In addition to technical and cadastral surveys , her office also worked on the project planning and surveying of larger parts of the Tauern motorway . Around 1980 she handed over the firm to her son Gottfried Embacher , who continues to run it today.
literature
- Institute for Geodesy of the Univ. Innsbruck: Festschrift Embacher (introduction by K.Bretterbauer, pp. 9–15). Inst.Mitt. Volume 7, 205 pages, Innsbruck 1984
- Heide Manhartsberger-Zuleger (daughter of Paula Embacher): Embacher, Paula, geb. Winklmayer , in: Ilse Korotin, Nastasjsa Stupnicki: Biographies of important Austrian scientists . Böhlau, Vienna et al. 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20238-7 , pp. 172–176 ( open access publication )
Other sources
- Letter notes from Wilhelm Embacher
- Women in the construction industry . Wirtschaftsverlag.at, January 12, 2004.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Embacher, Paula |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Winklmayr, Paula (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian geodesist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1996 |
| Place of death | Saalfelden , Salzburg |