Leo Kadrnozka

Kadrnozka studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna from 1892 to 1896 under the supervision of Leopold von Hauffe and Johann von Radinger. In 1896/1897 he worked there as an assistant.^[2]

He then worked for the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways, and from 1898 for the Vienna railway department of Siemens & Halske. There he was involved in the construction of the tramways in Vienna, Budapest, Sarajevo, Salzburg, Olmütz, Dornbirn-Lustenau and the Badner Bahn. In 1907 he moved to AEG Vienna as chief engineer.

In 1907 he accepted a lectureship as honorary professor for Electrical Railways and Electrical Switching and Regulating Apparatus at the Technical University of Munich, and from 1909 he was appointed full professor of electrical engineering.^[2] In Munich he supervised the dissertations of Udo Knorr, Hans Piloty and Louis Stokvis.^[3]

The passionate mountaineer Kadrnozka died in 1922 while climbing the Großvenediger when he fell into a crevasse.^[4]

• Leo Kadrnozka at the Mathematics Genealogy Project