SCHROMM

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17.1.1843 Wien/A - 10.1.1923 Wien/A

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Anton von Schromm graduated from the Vienna Polytechnic School, today's Technical University, in 1864. He then joined the Imperial Austrian navy and participated at the sea battle of Lissa in the Adriatic Sea against the Italians. After having made a degree as a navigation engineer, he moved to the Austrian harbor Trieste in 1868, where he was in charge of transferring boats from the French harbor Toulon. He left the army service in 1873 to continue as a mechanical engineer in boiler design. He was appointed technical director of the steam navigation company of Elbe River in 1881. Four years later, Schromm founded the navigation company of Lake Constance, for which he was awarded the title Regierungsrat. In 1885 also, Schromm was appointed state inspector of navigation, first for the two Eastern counties, then for all Austria. Shortly later, Schromm was promoted to navigation inspector and thus was responsible for all technical issues of Austrian inland navigation.

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Schromm was the first Austrian member of the Permanent International Association of the Navigation Congress PIANC. This association organizes engineering congresses as early as from 1883 and thus was the association with the first hydraulics meetings. Technical, economical and legal questions were discussed, with members originating mainly from Europe and North America. Schromm was a member of the Danube regulation commission, the Moldavia and Elbe canalization commission; he was a founding member of the naval test institute of Vienna, one of the earliest of its kinds inaugurated in 1912. He was thus involved in all matters relating to the propulsion, the resistance and the hydraulics of vessels, particularly for the War Ministry. Schromm was richly awarded, such as the Croix d'Officier of the French Légion d'Honneur, the Order of Stanislaus from Imperial Russia, and the title of Hofrat from Imperial Austria.

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_{Anonymous (1923). Hofrat Ing. A. Schromm-Bodenelb. Österreichische Monatsschrift für den Öffentlichen Baudienst 4(3): 52-53. P}

_{Schromm, A. von (1886). Organisierung des Binnenschiffahrts-Betriebes. Wien.}

_{Schromm, A. von (1892). Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete der gewerblichen Binnenschiffahrt.}

_{Reichswehr: Wien.}

_{Schromm, A. von (1897). Wasserstrassen. Hölder: Wien.}

_{Schromm, A. (1909). Einiges über Schiffmodell-Versuchsanstalten. Österreichische Wochenschrift für den öffentlichen Baudienst 15: 433-436.}

_{Schromm, A. von (1917). Österreichische Kriegsund Friedensprobleme. Wien.}