Guido Hugo Marx (29 March 1871 - 10 September 1949) was an American mechanical engineer who was active in progressive politics, the technocracy movement, and civil liberties.
[1] When Marx was 1 year old his father died of pneumonia[2] leaving his family in difficult financial circumstances, and his mother sent his older brother, Charles David, to wealthy relatives in Germany.
[4][5][6] This influenced newly appointed trustee Herbert Hoover to examine faculty salary levels at Stanford, ultimately resulting in improvements.
"[2]In 1911, he and Rufus Lot Green, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford, organized a local branch of the Progressive Party; Marx was the official delegate to its 1912 National Convention.
Marx wrote: "It had always been my profound conviction, that the engineer is peculiarly charged with the duty of conserving the natural resources of the world-to utilize them with the greatest immediate and enduring economy and efficiency, for the use and benefit of all of the people.
[2] On June 6, 1895, Marx married Gertrude Van Dusen, a member of the Cornell University library staff and a friend of one of his sisters.
[11] Following their marriage they built a house in Palo Alto which was designed with Arthur Bridgman Clark, professor of art and architecture at Stanford.