The Litomyšl civil engineer for cultural technology and civil surveyor Karel Krix was one of the most prolific entrepreneurs of the interwar period in the Litomyšl and Vysoké Mýto area.
He attended various schools in Bechov and Mladá Boleslav and, after graduating from high school in Žižkov in Prague in 1907, studied cultural engineering at the Czech Technical University. After graduating in 1911, he became an employee of Jan Mysliveček in Luštěnice.
After returning from the First World War (where he fought on the Italian front) he passed a certification exam in 1919 and became an officially certified civil engineer for cultural technology and civil surveying. At the same time he started work at the Agricultural College (Lukařská škola) in Vysoké Mýto where he taught algebra, trigonometry, statics and dynamics, hydraulics, land reclamation – construction and practical work, earthworks and road construction – theory and construction practice.
In 1929, Krix founded a construction and land reclamation company. At first he had offices in Vysoké Mýto and Litomyšl. In 1932, he bought a building plot in Litomyšl where he started to build his own villa with company headquarters (C4-736). After it was completed in 1934, he closed the office in Vysoké Mýto and transferred the business to Litomyšl. In the late 1930s, he planned to build flats for his employees, of which there were about one hundred at that time. He purchased building plots and acquired building materials. However, his plans were thwarted by the Second World War. After the war, Engineer Krix’s business was faring well, but after the putsch in February 1948, his company was nationalized and the family members lost their property.
As a leading technician, Krix remained in the services of the company, which was incorporated first into n. p. Konstruktiva Prague and then into Československé stavební závody Hradec Králové. At the end of the year in 1948, he retired and moved to Prague. During the 1950s he successfully fought off false accusations of concealing information and was finally exonerated of all wrongdoing in 1957. He subsequently worked as a teaching assistant at the Land Surveying College in Prague.
1928
Water-mains, Bítovany
1933
Bridge reconstruction, Bitovany
1933
Bridge reconstruction, Řepníky-Popovec
1934
Land reclamation on creek, Šonov