Franz Xaver Dorsch

German civil engineer (1899–1986)

Franz Xaver Dorsch made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.

The record lists Franz Xaver Dorsch as German civil engineer (1899–1986).

Franz Xaver Dorsch was born at Illertissen in 1899. His recorded nationality is Germany. He was educated at University of Stuttgart.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.

Franz Xaver Dorsch is described as civil engineer.

His affiliations include Organisation Todt.

The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.

His recorded fields of work are civil engineering.

His work was formally recognised with the Golden Party Badge and Blood Order.

Working from Germany shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.

Death came in 1986, at 87. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.

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