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Louis Degen († October 1897 ) was a German railway entrepreneur .

Degen was the owner of a company that dealt with railway construction and had its headquarters in Charlottenburg . Around 1894 Degen joined forces with Albert Sprickerhoff to form the Degen, Sprickerhoff & Co. company , which was dissolved again after Degen's death. Degen, Sprickerhoff & Co. temporarily took over the railroad business from Georg Soenderop .

In the 1890s, Louis Degen drafted plans for a narrow-gauge railway in the Blankenburg district of the then Duchy of Braunschweig from Walkenried via Wieda to Braunlage in the Upper Harz and a branch to Sorge (Harz) and Tanne .

The plans originally even contained a plan for the continuation of the railway to the triangular pile as the northernmost point of the district of Blankenburg. The actual construction and layout differed greatly from the first plans.

In October 1896, Louis Degen and his company received the project planning and construction management from the Braunschweig state government in Generalentreprise of the Südharz-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . He was contracted to create a corresponding railway company, which after the constitution of the railway construction concession should be officially granted. The establishment took place on April 28, 1897 and on July 5, 1897 the entry in the commercial register as AG Süd-Harz-Bahngesellschaft headquarters Walkenried . The share capital was 2.3 million marks . On June 4, 1897 Degen obtained the railway construction concession.

Degen suddenly died in October 1897 in the middle of the construction phase. The narrow-gauge railway Walkenried – Braunlage / Tanne was completed by the central administration for Secundairbahnen Herrmann Bachstein Berlin in 1899, which previously appeared as the later operator.