Rudolf Saliger (technician)

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Portrait relief at the Technical University of Vienna
Grave in the Simmering fire hall (designed by Viktor Hammer )

Rudolf Saliger (born February 1, 1873 in Spachendorf near Freudenthal , Austrian Silesia ; † January 31, 1958 in Vienna ) was an Austrian technician and pioneer of reinforced concrete construction .

Life

Saliger studied at the Technical University in Vienna and then practiced in the bridge construction office of the Südbahngesellschaft . Further years of study in Germany, Belgium and France followed. In 1907 he was appointed to the Technical University in Braunschweig , then to Prague and Dresden, before he finally worked at the Technical University in Vienna from 1910 to 1933. Here he was also rector in 1924/25 . In addition, Saliger was a building consultant for the municipality of Vienna between 1927 and 1934. After the “Anschluss” , Saliger was rector of the Technical University on an interim basis after Karl Holey was kicked out. In this function, Saliger welcomed the new regime in numerous "homage telegrams" and speeches.

In 1939 he was accepted into the Vienna Academy of Sciences . In 1940 he also joined the NSDAP . In the same year he retired . In the years before his retirement, Saliger had a major influence on the Nazification of the Technical University and the structural disadvantage of Jewish and social democratic students. According to Juliane Mikoletzky , this was done very quickly and in an orderly manner compared to other universities.

After 1945 Saliger was classified as a “ minor offender ”, in the same year his request for forbearance was granted for “technical and scientific reasons”.

After his death, his ashes were buried in an urn niche in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall , which was kept as an honorary grave . Viktor Hammer designed the grave monument .

In 1965, Saligergasse in Vienna- Favoriten was named after him.

meaning

Rudolf Saliger is considered a pioneer of reinforced concrete construction. As a result of his initiative, lectureships for reinforced concrete construction were set up at Austrian universities. He also dealt with statics.

buildings

Awards

Fonts

  • Practical statics. Introduction to the calculation of the position of the supporting structures with special consideration of the structural and reinforced concrete construction . Deuticke: Leipzig, 1927 (2nd expanded edition)
  • The face of the new Russia. Travel impressions . Springer: Vienna, 1932
  • The reinforced concrete. Its calculation and design . Kröner: Leipzig, 1933 (6th supplemented edition)
  • Endurance tests on reinforced concrete beams with various steel reinforcements . Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects: Vienna, 1935
  • Tests on reinforced concrete beams under static and falling loads . Springer: Vienna, 1936
  • The new theory of reinforced concrete based on the malleability in the fracture state . Deuticke: Vienna, 1947
  • Advances in reinforced concrete through high quality materials and new research . Deuticke: Vienna, 1950
  • Thinking and doing of a technician . 3 vols. Self-published: Vienna, 1952–53
  • The reinforced concrete construction. Material, calculation, design . Deuticke: Vienna, 1956 (8th expanded edition)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Street names in Vienna since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 168ff, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d German biographical encyclopedia , accessed on March 13, 2009.
  3. ↑ www.friedhoefewien.at - Graves dedicated to honor in the fire hall Simmering cemetery (PDF 2016), accessed on March 7, 2018
  4. ^ Rudolf Saliger accessed on July 23, 2020 in Wilhelmexner.org

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personal data
SURNAME Saliger, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian technician
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Spachendorf
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1958
Place of death Vienna