Emil Heinrich Probst

Emil Heinrich Israel Probst (10 October 187727 January 1950) was an engineer and professor based in Germany, who made a significant contribution to the development of reinforced concrete. He was a Christian, however he had Jewish heritage and fled to Britain to escape the Nazi régime.

Early life Emil Probst was born on 10 October 1877 in Dobromyl, then part of Austrian Galicia, and now Ukraine. He had Jewish parents who both died while Probst was a young child. His father was a merchant. He grew up with his aunts in Vienna and, much to the dismay of his relatives, converted to the Lutheran church on 10 October 1900, his 23rd birthday. He attended a (grammar school) in Vienna until his graduation in 1895 and initially studied medicine at the University of Vienna. From 1896, he studied engineering at the Vienna University of Technology, graduating in 1903.