Alfred Laubi

Alfred Laubi (born September 1, 1846 in Zurich ; † May 7, 1909 in Wädenswil ) was a Swiss railway engineer.

Life

After attending elementary and cantonal school in Zurich, Alfred Laubi studied at the ETH Zurich from 1863 to 1865 and, after leaving Zurich in July 1864 following the departure of the students from the Polytechnic to Rapperswil, at the Technical University from 1865 to 1867 Stuttgart engineering . In Zurich he became a member of the Corps Helvetia . In Stuttgart he joined the Corps Stauffia in 1867 . After completing his studies, he went to the Royal Württemberg State Railways , where he worked between 1867 and 1870 in the construction of the Kocherbahn and Enzbahnwas used. In the following three years he was until 1873 when the General Inspectorate of Austrian railways employees in the line routing of railway lines Taus - Tabor as part of the Moravian Czech-Transversal , Trieste - Laak and Saybusch - New Sandec busy.

After his return to Switzerland, Laubi was a control engineer in the Swiss Railway Department until mid-1874 . He then managed the construction of the Tösstalbahn as chief engineer until the summer of 1877 . From 1877 to 1879 he headed the civil engineering office in Winterthur and was then again a federal control engineer until 1890, first in Bern and later in Lucerne . In the following years he planned the construction of the cogwheel from the Pas de l'Échelle near Veyrier on the Salève and planned and implemented the cogwheel train from Montreux to the Rochers de Naye . In 1894 he became chief engineer at the Swiss Railway Bank. By 1897 he built the Landquart-Chur-Thusis railway line for the Rhaetian Railway .

In 1897 Laubi was elected director of the Swiss Southeast Railway , which he headed until his death in 1909. He managed to reorganize the heavily indebted company and return it to profitability in 1900.

At the end of 1903, Laubi was given a teaching position by the Swiss School Council at the ETH Zurich on railway operations . The Swiss Federal Council sent him to the Board of Directors of the Rhaetian Railway as a representative of the Confederation . He would have to resign from both offices in autumn 1908 for health reasons. He acted as a railway expert in Switzerland , Alsace and Hungary , among others . In the Swiss Army he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel in the engineering troops .

literature

• † A. Laubi . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung , Volume 53, Issue 20, May 15, 1909, p. 261 f. ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carl Heydt: Chronik des Corps Stauffia zu Stuttgart , 1960, p. 121
2. ↑ Stefan Sandmeier: The establishment of traffic planning at the ETH. On the history of the IVT , 2009, p. 14 ( [1] )