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

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology ( he, הטכניון – מכון טכנולוגי לישראל) is a public research university located in Haifa, Israel. Established in 1912 under the dominion of the Ottoman Empire, the Technion ...

Biography

Hecker was born in

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

, 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 ...

. He was the President of the

from 1925 to 1927, succeeding

Arthur Blok Arthur Blok (ארתור בלוק; 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 Pale ...

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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-bio-stub