Anton Strauss

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Anton Strauss
Kiev, Russian Empire
Died	?
Nationality	Russian Empire
Parent(s)	Strauss Emil Christian Dietrich and Wiesel Fanny Elizabeth

Anton Strauss (1858,

, actual state councilor.

Family

Anton Strauss descended from a noble family of German descent.

Father – Emil Christian Dietrich Strauss was born in

(3rd Class).

Mother – Fanny Elizabeth Wiesel was a daughter of a medical doctor Bernhard Lorenz Wiesel (Poltava Governorate) and Rosalie Caroline Maier.

Brother – Oscar Strauss was born in 1858. Oscar Strauss was a physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer and an entrepreneur. He was a co-founder of the company “Savitsky and Strauss” which launched the first power plant in Kiev in 1890. He was also a shareholder of cable and gunpowder factories, a tobacco factory in Kiev and a lumber mill in

, who was the first person to demonstrate the practical application of electromagnetic radio waves.

Cousin – Oscar Wiesel was born in Russia in 1864. He graduated as a lawyer and worked in Germany, Spitsbergen, and Switzerland as a Russian consul. Wiesel later served as a general consul in Italy (Napoli) in rank of actual state councilor.

Cousin –

holder. During Soviet times he was an expert in Russian and Western fine arts and sculpture in the Glavnauka museum department (central administrative board of science, science-artistic and museum institutions).

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  Emil Strauss
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  Strauss Family
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  Emil Wiesel and Anton Strauss
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  Emil Wiesel
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  Oscar Wiesel

Education

Anton Strauss studied in the Kiev Realschule. He graduated from the

in 1892.

Activity

Anton Strauss is famous for inventing an improved method of providing a water-tight vertical layer and simultaneously compressing portions of ground adjacent to the layer for use in dams, dikes and like structures or in the ground. The technology was used for the first time during construction of buildings of Russian South-West Railways in Kiev. Later the technology was applied to construct bridges, tunnels, ports and houses in Russia and abroad. Anton Strauss patented the technology on 18 May 1909 in the US, patent # 922,207.

Anton Strauss supported various projects of his partner and close friend architect

(Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya str. 75).

Anton Strauss also owned a company (Kiev, B. Vladimirskaya str.26, 1897) that specialized in constructing boreholes, pumps, pipes, filters; and mining minerals and fossils.

Like his brother Oscar, Anton Strauss was a board member of “South-Russian gunpowder plant ” (Kiev, Bolshaya Podvalnaya str.8, 1911).

Yacht club

Yachting was among Anton Strauss’ hobbies. Anton Strauss was a member of the Kiev Yacht club and it’s commodore from 1911 till 1917 (?). The club was located on Trukhanov Island with winter residence in the Fundukleevskaya str, 10 (nowadays the Khmelnitskogo str.). Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia patronized the Club. The annual fee was equal 25 rubles. Each member was required to own a yacht.

Address in Kiev

Kreposti str, 4.

No information about Anton Strauss is available after 1917.

External links

• Большая иллюстрированная энциклопедия яхт-клубов
• Сайт, посвященный архитектору Павлу Алешину
• Статья "Отклубившийся Киев", автор Алексей Зотиков
• Горное профессиональное сообщество дореволюционной России
• Статья "Бывшее реальное училище" на сайте Kievstory
• Patent