Jakob Blank-Arbenz

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Jakob Blank-Arbenz (* 1810 ; † 1893 ) was a Swiss entrepreneur .

Blank-Arbenz was one of the initiators of the Rhine Falls Railway, which he opened in 1857. Until 1887 he was chairman of the board of directors of the Swiss industrial company SIG , the bank in Schaffhausen and the gas company .