Louis Adolf Gölsdorf

Louis Adolf Gölsdorf

Louis Adolf Gölsdorf (born February 16, 1837 in Plaue , † November 28, 1911 in Vienna ) was an Austrian engineer and locomotive designer. He was the father of Karl Gölsdorf , who later became head of the section and head of the mechanical engineering section in the old Austrian Ministry of Railways, and of Rudolf Gölsdorf, who became the deputy director of the Austrian Federal Railways.

Louis Adolf Gölsdorf received his training in Chemnitz and Dresden at technical institutes and then worked in the technical service at the Leipzig-Dresden Railway . In 1860 he was hired as a mechanical engineer at the StEG locomotive factory in Vienna , but in 1861 he moved to the Südbahn , where he soon took a leading position in the locomotive design office. From 1885 to 1908 he was machine director of the southern railway.

In addition to his own locomotive designs, together with Anton Elbel , he designed baggage locomotives for economical operations that were used on several Austro-Hungarian railways.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theodor Schlag: A pioneer of locomotive construction ; in: Verkehrswirtschaftliche Rundschau, Vienna, March 1937, p. 6.

literature

• Gregor Gatscher-Riedl: Perchtoldsdorf as the scene of European railway history. The summer residence of the ingenious locomotive designers Gölsdorf. In: Local history supplement [to the official gazette of the district authority Mödling], Volume 46, F. 4, (Mödling December 5, 2011), p. 4f.
• Paul Mechtler:  Gölsdorf, Louis Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 518 ( digitized version ).
• Gölsdorf Louis Adolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 17.