Rudolf Halter

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Rudolf Halter (born September 11, 1860 in Vienna ; † September 27, 1938 there ) was an Austrian hydraulic engineer and university lecturer . He was rector of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Rudolf Halter studied civil engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, where he passed the second state examination in 1885. From 1887 to 1895 he worked as an engineer for the state of Lower Austria , initially working on the layout of railway lines, later in the hydraulic engineering sector. In 1896 he was responsible for the regulation of the March in the Imperial and Royal Ministry of the Interior . From 1897 to 1909 he was department head of the Lower Austrian Danube Regulation Commission, in this role he was responsible for securing the Hubertusdamm line Bisamberg – Floridsdorf during the floods in 1897 . In addition, the protective and winter harbor in Freudenau , the Kuchelau harbor and the Kaiserbad barrage were built under his leadership .

From 1909 until his retirement in 1929 he was a full professor for hydraulic engineering at the TH Vienna. In the academic years 1912/13 to 1915/16 he was dean of the engineering school, in the academic year 1923/24 he was elected rector of the Vienna University of Technology . In 1919 he initiated the Free Association for Technical National Education together with Wilhelm Exner , of which he was president from 1921 to 1933.

Rudolf Halter died in 1938 at the age of 73 and was buried at the Hütteldorfer Friedhof .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • 1897: Probing procedure on the Danube on the occasion of the power consumption from Kritzendorf to Kaiser-Ebersdorf for the purposes of the Projects constitution for the regulation of low water , Vienna, Austrian monthly for public construction services, volume 5
  • 1906: The shelter and winter harbor in Freudenau , Vienna, Austrian weekly for public construction services, issue 19
  • 1908: Construction of the Kaiserbad barrage in the Vienna Danube Canal , Vienna, notifications of the Central Association for River and Canal Shipping in Austria No. 65
  • 1911: The tasks of hydraulic engineering and their economic context , Swatschek-Kiesel-Verlag, Salzburg
  • 1913: Large hydropower plants and bed load management , Vienna, magazine of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects (ÖIAV), issue 19
  • 1916: Hydraulic engineering and water management in school and practice , Vienna, ÖIAV magazine, issue 5
  • 1916: Ice phenomena in flowing waters , Vienna, Austrian weekly for public construction services, issue 24/25
  • 1917: Vienna and the Danube: Memorandum of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects , Vienna, Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects
  • 1922: The use of water power with special consideration of Austria , Vienna, school book publisher
  • 1927: Guidelines for solving the Danube issues , Vienna, Die Wasserwirtschaft, issue 11
  • 1929: The international flood protection efforts and the Viennese Danube questions , Vienna, Die Wasserwirtschaft, issue 1–3
  • 1931: The technical basis of Danube shipping , Springer-Verlag, Vienna / Berlin, published by the Austrian Board of Trustees for Economic Efficiency (ÖKW)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Wilhelm Exner Medal: Rudolf Halter . Retrieved April 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Halter, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian hydraulic engineer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1938
Place of death Vienna