Emil Futter

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Emil Futter (* 1877 ; † 1931 ) was an Austrian chief engineer .

Life

He was a senior engineer in the construction of the Linz tram and the builder of some of the steepest adhesive railways in the world. Among other things, he built the Pöstlingbergbahn in 1898 based on an idea by the Linz engineer Josef Urbanski , which, according to the Guinness Book of Records, is considered the steepest adhesion railway in Europe. The Emil lining street in Linz was named after him.

literature

  • Wilhelm Rausch: Josef Urbański . The spiritual father of the Pöstlingbergbahn to save his honor. In: Archive of the City of Linz (ed.): Historical yearbook of the city of Linz 1958. Linz 1958, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at (historical article on the construction of the Pöstlingbergbahn).
  • Franz Aschauer: Upper Austria's railways: history of rail traffic in Austria's oldest railway country. Volume 18 of the series, commission publisher: Oberösterreichischer Landesverlag, Linz 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.figue.at/firma/dielinzertramway/dieelectric/index.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.figue.at  
  2. ^ Rausch 1958, pp. 349 and 352.
  3. ^ Emil-Futter-Strasse. In: stadtgeschichte.linz.at. Accessed December 30, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lining, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chief engineer and builder of adhesive membranes
DATE OF BIRTH 1877
DATE OF DEATH 1931