Karl Heinrich Gyr
Karl Heinrich Gyr (born April 27, 1879 in Zurich ; † November 3, 1946 in Zug ) was a Swiss entrepreneur.
His parents were the master butcher Heinrich Gyr and Lina, geb. Laubi. After attending schools in Zurich and Lausanne, he studied chemistry at the Polytechnic in Zurich and Dresden, where he received his doctorate in 1902 . After further studies in the USA, he worked in the English chemical industry .
His college friend Heinrich Landis had become the third partner in the electricity meter factory Theiler & Co. in Zug in 1903 and took it over in 1904. In 1905 he took Gyr as a partner. The two expanded the company as Landis & Gyr into the largest company in Zug.
He founded several corporate welfare and welfare institutions. In 1929 he became a board member of the Association of Swiss Machine Manufacturers and subsequently co-founder of the Employers' Association of Zug and the surrounding area, of which he became president. In 1945 the ETH Zurich awarded him an honorary doctorate .
Web links
- Renato Morosoli: Gyr, Karl Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Andreas Faessler: The visionary and his global corporation . In: Neue Zuger Zeitung, December 1, 2012 (online) (PDF; 138 kB)
- Photo by Karl Heinrich Gyr
literature
- Matthias Wiesmann: Karl Heinrich Gyr (1879–1946) - The development of the global company Landis & Gyr. Association for economic history studies, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-909059-57-7 ( Swiss pioneers in business and technology. Vol. 96).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gyr, Karl Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1946 |
| Place of death | train |