Richard Walzel

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Richard Walzel (born September 3, 1895 in Neunkirchen (Lower Austria) , † December 28, 1977 in Leoben , Styria ) was an Austrian Montanist and university professor.

Life

After graduating from high school, the working-class son Richard Walzel devoted himself to studying metallurgy at the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben . In 1913 he joined the Corps Schacht . Interrupted by his participation in the First World War (1915–1918), he completed it in 1920 with his graduation as Dipl.-Ing. from. He joined the Donawitz iron and steel works of the Austrian Alpine Mining Society (ÖAMG) . In 1926 he was appointed head of the steel testing department. Walzel specialized in the quality development of steels and went on numerous study trips. In 1929 he was promoted to Dr. mont. PhD . In 1933 he followed Anton Keil-Eichenthurn to the chair of iron and steel science . He was then responsible for the management of the Leoben Ironworks Institute. In 1936/37 he was dean of the Leoben department of the Technical and Mining University Graz-Leoben and in the following academic year rector of the again independent Montanistic University Leoben. He was drafted into the attack on Poland in 1939 , but soon afterwards released from university service and scientific advice to the ÖAMG. In 1957 he retired . Walzel worked as a managing board member of the Austrian Ironworks Association , as an employee in the international standardization of steel grades , as a consultant and expert for material and metallurgical issues and in 1954 as a visiting professor at the University of Manchester . In 1958 he was elected an honorary member of the Austrian Society for Metallurgy and Materials Technology (ASMET). The Corps Schacht elected him an honorary member in the late 1960s. He was involved in the Association for Corps Student History Research and wrote articles for the yearbook Einst und Jetzt .

Fonts

  • Contribution to the knowledge of the dependence of some steel properties on the amount of hot metal. Dissertation, Montanistische Hochschule Leoben, 1931
  • Contribution to the knowledge of the mechanical aging of soft mild steel, In: Report of the Material Committee of the Association of German Ironworkers, 197, 1933
  • with Friedrich Neuwirth: Determination of the acid solubility of steels: Report on a joint work of the specialist committee for corrosion issues of the ironworks Oesterreich, In: Report of the materials committee of the Association of German Ironworkers, 338, 1936
  • Static and dynamic hot hardness of steels, In: Messages from the ironworks institute of the Technical and Montanistic University Graz-Leoben in Leoben, Verlag Stahleisen, 1937.
  • Felix Busson . The life picture of an Austrian corps student on the background of political and student history . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 7 (1962), pp. 156-168.
  • Anton Bauer - Councilor of the best quality of peace . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 15 (1970), pp. 175-181.

See also

literature

  • Stephen Taylor (Ed.): Who's who in Austria, The Central European Times Pub. Co. Ltd., 1964. p. 623.
  • Association of German Ironworkers, Association of German Iron and Steel Industrialists. Northwestern Group: Steel and Iron: Journal for the German Ironworks , Vol. 98 (1978). P. 128.
  • Gerhard Friedrich Hiebsch: History of the Corps Schacht zu Leoben 1861-2011. Corps Schacht, Leoben 2011.
  • Andreas Weber: Festschrift for the 150th Foundation Festival of the Corps Schacht. Corps Schacht, Leoben 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 94/123
  2. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: honorary members of the Austrian Society for Metallurgy & Materials Technology (ASMET) )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.asmet.at
personal data
SURNAME Walzel, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Montanist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Lower Austria)
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1977
Place of death Leoben , Styria