Person
Heitlinger, Max (1899 - 1992)
- Born
- 28 May 1899
Mahrisch-Ostrau, Czechoslovakia - Died
- 22 January 1992
Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer
Summary
Max Heitlinger BCE MIEAust, civil engineer, specialised in dam design with the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria between 1943 and 1964, retiring as Second-in-Charge of the Dam Design Section. He was associated with the design of almost all the large dam structures in Victoria in that period. Max was educated and worked as a civil engineer in Vienna, and fortunately was able to escape the Holocaust to Australia in 1939. He represented Australia at the meeting of the International Commission on large dams in Moscow in 1962, and was awarded the Warren memorial prize in 1965.
Details
Chronology
- 1923
- Education - Bachelor of Civil Engineering (BCE), Vienna University, Austria
- c. 1924 - c. 1938
- Career position - Building Surveyor, Engineering Branch of the Vienna City Council, Austria
- c. 1936 - c. 1939
- Career position - Organising Secretary of the Air Raids Precautions Commission, Austrian Government.
- 1939
- Life event - Emigrated to Victoria, Australia [as a Stateless refugee]
- 1939 - 1943
- Career event - Engineer, Scott & Furphy, consulting engineers
- 1943 - 1964
- Career position - Engineer, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria
- 1944
- Life event - Granted Certificate of Naturalization, as an Australian Citizen
- 1961
- Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1964
- Life event - Retired
- 1964 - c. 1970
- Career position - Engineer, Scott & Furphy, consulting engineers
- 1965
- Award - Warren Memorial Prize, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1968
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Associate Members were designated Members on this date.]
- 1985
- Life event - Published his autobiography "In the nick of time"
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Published resources
Books
- Heitlinger, Max, In the nick of time : escape from wars, sickness, boredom : an autobiography (Hawthorn, Victoria: Rainbow Books, 1985), 128 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Institution News and Notes - Prizes [1965: R. W. Chapman Medal; Warren Memorial Prize; Electrical Engineering Prize; Mechanical Engineering Prize; The Institution Awards. 1966: Edward Noyes Prize; J. R. Bainton Prize; R. J. N. Franki Medal]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 39 (1-2) (1967), N20-N21. 'Warren Memorial Prize (1965) - to Mr M Heitlinger, AMIEAust, Mr T S Moffatt, BEE AMIEAust, and Mr D J Little, BCE MIEAust, for paper "Design and Construction of Eppalock Earth and Rockfill Dam, and Turbine-Pumping Station, on the Campaspe River, Victoria", Journal of the Institution of Engineers Australia, Oct-Nov 1965'. Details
- Heitlinger, M.; Moffat, T. S.; Little, D. J., 'Design and Construction of Eppalock Earth and Rockfill Dam, and Turbine-Pumping Station, on the Campaspe River, Victoria [and Discussion]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 37 (1965), 325-. Details
Reports
- Institution of Engineers Australia, Forty-seventh Annual Report [1966] (1967), 18 pp. 'Warren Memorial Prize (1965 Award) to Mr M Heitlinger, AMIEAust, Mr T S Moffat, BEE AMIEAust, and Mr D J Little BCE MIEAust, for their paper entitled "Design and Construction of Eppalock Earth and Rockfill Dam, and Turbine-Pumping Station, on the Campaspe River, Victoria"', p.2. Details
Resources
- 'Heitlinger, Max (1899-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-459989. Details
Ken McInnes
Created: 26 April 2022