Robert Krapfenbauer

Robert Johann Krapfenbauer (born January 5, 1923 in Rodingersdorf in Lower Austria; † September 2, 2005 in Vienna ) was an Austrian structural engineer and civil engineer .

Krapfenbauer became famous for planning the Danube Tower in Vienna. Other important construction projects were the reconstruction of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna General Hospital . As a traffic planner, he planned the Pfänder Tunnel in Bregenz and various railway construction projects in Algeria and Madagascar. He also designed the Austrian pavilion for the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels, the Austrian embassy in Moscow, the Lorenz Böhler hospital in Vienna and the papal station in Doberndorf in the Waldviertel.

Krapfenbauer has published almost 180 publications, was a professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and headed the chair for structural planning as a member of the board until 1995. He has been awarded the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class (1975) and the Grand Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna (2003). The building councilor and honorary senator of the Vienna University of Technology (1990) was also Consul General of the Republic of Madagascar in Austria.

He was married and had three daughters and two sons. One of his daughters, together with the daughter of the bank director of the Zentralsparkasse of the municipality of Vienna and Christian Lintl, the son of the Danube Tower architect Hannes Lintl, gave the "flower children" at the opening of the Danube Tower.

In 1994 his son Robert Martin Krapfenbauer took over the engineering office. In 1998 ZT GmbH was founded.

Web links

• Obituary , APA press release (accessed November 16, 2009)
• Krapfenbauer, AKH planner died
• Archive for 40 years of the Danube Tower , formerly at www.lintl.at (Robert Krapfenbauer was constantly on the construction site of the Danube Tower, documented in the photos)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TU Wien: Honorary Senators ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 28, 2016. 
2. ^ Photos of the opening of the Danube Tower on April 16, 1964:
   • “Ladies group with man”, on the far left and right the wives of architect Lintl and structural engineer Krapfenbauer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
   • “Party guests and 'flower children'”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Homepage Krapfenbauer ZT GmbH