Alois Riedler

Alois Riedler (May 15, 1850 - October 25, 1936) was a noted Austrian mechanical engineer, and, as professor in Germany, a vigorous proponent of practically oriented engineering education. After graduation he took on a succession of academic appointments. He first became an assistant at the TH Brünn (1871-1873); From 1899 to 1900, he was appointed the school's principal (rector) Riedler declined an appointment to the TH in Vienna in 1903, where he was supposed to succeed Leopold von Hauffe. Fritza, who died in 1927, and Alois had no descendants. In 1911 his alma mater TH Graz awarded him an honorary doctorate.