You bid a typed letter from"Austrian construction journal".

DatedVienna, 21. March 1953.

addressed to the Austrian civil engineer and pioneer of reinforced concrete construction Rudolph Saliger (1873-1958), which the Österreichische Bauzeitschrift dedicated to its 80th birthday. dedicated a special issue to his birthday, which was sent to him.

Signedfrom the editor, the technician Eugen Czitary (1897-1980); the second signature difficult to read.

Format: A4; without envelope. On nice paper with "Velo Mill" watermark.

Condition:folded lengthwise and crosswise; lightly tanned. Bitte note also the pictures!

Internal note: Salinger folder blue

About Eugen Czitary (Source: WienHistoryWiki) and Rudolf Saliger (Source: wikipedia):

Eugene Czitary, * 3. June 1897 Pola, Istria (Pula, Croatia), † 3. March 1980 Vienna (resident 13, Titlgasse 5), technician. Studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Vienna and turned to practical work in railway construction.

In 1930 Czitary became an honorary lecturer at the Technical University of Graz (1934 lecturer), 1946 associate professor at the Technical University of Vienna (1950 full professor and head of the Institute for Railway Engineering).

His specialty was railway superstructure and cable cars (especially cable cars).

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

Life: Saliger was the son of a carpenter and attended secondary school in Troppau. From 1891 to 1898 he studied civil engineering at the Technical University in Vienna, graduating with a second degree. state exam. In between, he did his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1895/96. He then worked from 1897 to 1899 in the bridge construction office of the Southern Railway Company and then from 1899 to 1900 as a bridge construction engineer at the Upper Austrian governor's office in Linz. From 1900 to 1908 he worked as an engineer in Germany, among other things at the company Beton- und Monierbau and at the building trade schools in Posen and Kassel. He undertook study trips to Switzerland, France (1900 in Paris) and Belgium, in particular to further his education in reinforced concrete construction, including with the reinforced concrete pioneers Francois Hennebique and Joseph Monier. In 1903 he received his Dr. tech Doctorate (dissertation: On the strength of buildings made of variable elastic materials, primarily concrete-iron constructions). In 1906 he was a trainee in the materials testing office in Berlin-Lichterfelde, which belonged to the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg. In 1907 he was appointed to the Technical University in Braunschweig, then to Prague (associate professor for structural mechanics and iron building 1908/09) and Dresden, before finally working from 1910 to 1933 at the Technical University in Vienna as a full professor for general and applied mechanics . 1920-1922 he was dean and 1924/25 he became rector. In addition, between 1927 and 1934, Saliger was a building consultant for the municipality of Vienna. After the “Anschluss” after Karl Holey was expelled in 1938, Saliger became interim rector of the Technical University again.

In 1939 he was admitted to the Vienna Academy of Sciences and retired in the same year.

After 1945, Saliger was classified as “less incriminated”, and in the same year his request for leniency was granted for “technical and scientific reasons”.

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

In 1903 he married Marie Hettling.

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

Significance: Rudolf Saliger is considered a pioneer of reinforced concrete construction. On his initiative, professorships for reinforced concrete construction were set up at Austrian universities (compulsory subject at the TH Vienna from 1916/17). He gave lectures on reinforced concrete construction from 1910. He also dealt with statics.

buildings

1927, dome of the Israelite ceremonial hall at the Vienna Central Cemetery

1929–1931, Vienna Stadium

1930–1932, Herrengasse high-rise building

awards

1931: Wilhelm Exner Medal

1943: Goethe Medal for Art and Science

writings

Practical statics. Introduction to the status calculation of the supporting structures with special consideration of the structural and reinforced concrete construction. Deuticke: Leipzig, 1927 (2. extended Edition)

The face of the new Russia. travel impressions. Springer: Vienna, 1932

The reinforced concrete. Its calculation and design. Kroner: Leipzig, 1933 (6. supplemented edition)

Endurance tests on reinforced concrete beams with different steel reinforcements. Austrian Society 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 plasticity in the state of failure. Deuticke: Vienna, 1947

Advances in reinforced concrete through high quality materials and new research. Deuticke: Vienna, 1950

Thoughts and actions of a technician. 3 vols. Self-published: Vienna, 1952–53

The reinforced concrete building. Material, calculation, design. Deuticke: Vienna, 1956 (8. extended Edition).