Eduard Locher

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colonel Eduard Locher ( Austria's Illustrated Newspaper , 1905)

Eduard Locher (born January 15, 1840 in Zurich ; † June 2, 1910 there ) was a Swiss engineer , inventor and freelance entrepreneur , who was awarded an honorary doctorate for his services .

After graduating from industrial school in 1861, he joined the construction business of his father Johann Jakob Locher (1806–1861), who died after the fire in Glarus (1861) . In 1871 he attended lectures on bridge and railway construction to deepen his theoretical knowledge. He and his younger brother Friedrich Locher (1842–1906) succeeded in bringing the somewhat run-down construction business Locher back to life through tireless diligence and efficiency. From 1890 to 1899, the Alsatian engineer René Koechlin , who later became known for the construction of the Rhine canal with the Kembs power station , also worked. Among other things, they built the two Limmat bridges of the Nordostbahn (NOB) near Wettingen , a section of the Gotthard Railway between Flüelen and Göschenen with the Pfaffensprung tunnel , the Simplon tunnel , the Südostbahn (SOB) from Biberbrücke to Arth-Goldau , the Sihltalbahn , the Engelberg Railway ( LSE) and the Eglisau-Glattfelden power plant . Locher also came up with the plan for a pneumatic train on the Jungfrau .

However, it became famous mainly through the construction of the Pilatusbahn and its specially developed rack railway system ( Locher system ).

Locher also participated in numerous industrial companies, for example the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Factory (SLM), of which he was president, and the Pilatusbahn .

The former company Locher & Cie was split up in 1998. While the underground / large civil engineering division was taken over by the Zschokke Group as the largest division, the other activities remained with the founding family.

literature

Web links

Commons : Eduard Locher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nekrolog René Koechlin . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 69 , no. 36 , September 8, 1951, pp. 507 .
personal data
SURNAME Locher, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss engineer, inventor and independent entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1910
Place of death Zurich