Mordecai "Max" Hecker () was an Austrian-born Israeli President of the

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is a public university, public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 by Jews under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion is the oldest university in the coun ...

Biography

Hecker was born in

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

, and was a

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing i ...

. He was the President of the

from 1925 to 1927, succeeding

Arthur Blok Arthur Blok (; March 19, 1882 – October 14, 1974) was the British-born first administrative head (or Principal, as he was then called) of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, Israel (then Mandatory Palestine), from 1924 ...

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Austrian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Technion – Israel Institute of Technology presidents Austrian civil engineers Israeli people of Austrian-Jewish descent 1879 births 1964 deaths Place of death missing {{Israel-engineer-stub