Description

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A history of Austria's Chambers of Engineers

This book is the first history of Austria's Chambers of Engineers from their foundation in 1860 up to the passage of the Civil Technicians Act of 1957. In addition to tracing the history of the organization, the book tackles head-on the controversial issue of collaboration with the Nazi regime and the fate of those civil engineers who were persecuted.

The biographies of civil engineers reveal the extent of the chambers' autonomy and show how members' careers were made and broken during this period, as well as discriminatory measures. A special concern of this book is to keep alive the memory of those civil engineers who fell victim to the Nazi regime.

With this thorough and scientific reappraisal, Austria's Federal Chamber of Civil Engineers has taken an important step in taking responsibility for its own history.

• An important contribution to the historical reappraisal of the Nazi period and the history of Austria's institutions
• Academic of selected biographies of civil engineers
• With contributions by Ingrid Holzschuh, Inge Korneck, and Alexandra Wachter, as well as numerous historical illustrations and infographics

About the Author

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Ingrid Holzschuh, art historian and exhibition curator, Vienna Alexandra Wachter, historian, Vienna