Baurat h.c. Dipl.-Ing. Peter Fritsch – one of the founders and name givers of FCP Fritsch, Chiari & Partner ZT GmbH – died at the age of 81 after a longer illness on 7 June 2021.

Peter Fritsch was born in Vienna in 1940 and joined the Viennese office of the bridge construction pioneer Kurt Wenzel after his studies of civil engineering at the Technical University in Vienna in 1966. Together with Gerd Chiari he took over this office in 1977 and laid the basis for the development to one of Austria’s leading and biggest engineering consultants by reorganizing it to FCP ZT GmbH in 1995.

From the beginning of his professional career Baurat Fritsch had been always closely involved in bridge construction and the big bridge structures which were built in Austria in the 1960s to 1980s. Thereby he acquired an excellent reputation as a bridge construction engineer.

Together with his congenial partner Gerd Chiari Mr. Fritsch already realized at a very early stage that Austrian bridge design competence was also in great demand internationally and thus he spread this know-how under the name VCE Vienna Consulting Engineers as far as to Taiwan and South Korea. Highlights were doubtlessly the design services for the Olympic Grand Bridge in Seoul and for the Kao Ping Hsi Bridge in Taiwan. Mr. Fritsch had the honour to accept the Austrian Award for International Consulting for both of the outstanding cable-stayed bridges with ground-breaking dimensions for that time.

Peter Fritsch stands for entrepreneurial spirit combined with expertise in FCP.VCE.

Apart from his profession Peter Fritsch had a passion for collecting and restoring antique clocks. In this field he proved an expert as well and wrote a popular textbook on Viennese carriage clocks in 2010.

Peter Fritsch was also a family man and not only shared the love for art and culture but also the passion for travelling and discovering new countries with his wife Friederike. Among other things, the two of them travelled to the Sahara and Mr. Fritsch enthusiastically told us about his impressions of this journey in the office when he had already retired.

Apart from his wife, Peter Fritsch leaves behind two adult sons, daughters-in-law and several grandchildren. We wish his family a lot of strength in these difficult days.

The FCP.VCE company group will always keep respectful memories of Baurat h.c. Dipl.-Ing. Peter Fritsch. His spirit will live on in our company.