Franz Pitzinger (22 May 1858, Enzersdorf an der Fischa – 10 October 1933, Hofstetten-Grünau) was a

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in late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century

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Naval career

He studied mechanical engineering at the

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and started his career at Clayton & Shuttleworth. Pitzinger joined the

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in 1886. He spent much of his career at the naval arsenal in

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. He had significant design responsibilities for the Erzherzog Karl-class battleships and the Radetzky-class battleships. He led the design of the

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s which were cancelled when

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broke out in 1914. In 1914 he was promoted to Naval Constructor General. His naval career ended in 1918 with the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

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