Louis Zwahlen

Louis Zwahlen (born April 2, 1857 in Lausanne , † June 2, 1919 in Le Brassus ) was a Swiss engineer, entrepreneur and politician.

He completed his apprenticeship as a locksmith in Vevey and expanded his training in Paris. On his return to the canton of Vaud in 1881, he founded a metalworking and art locksmith workshop in Lausanne, which was first located in the Grand-Chêne district, then in the Flon district from 1885 and in the Prilly community from 1906 .

The construction workshop was involved in many major construction projects in Lausanne at the end of the 19th century, for example the construction of the Montbenon court building , the Lausanne post office , the Lausanne train station and the large multi-purpose building Palais de Rumine . Louis Zwahlen's atelier also built other buildings in the canton of Bern and in France, such as hotel buildings in Évian-les-Bains , Divonne-les-Bains and Nice .

Louis Zwahlen's company received the gold medal at the Swiss National Exhibition in Bern in 1914 . The company still exists today under the name Zwahlen et Mayr SA in Aigle .

Louis Zwahlen was one of the founders of the Société industrial et commerciale de Lausanne , the Chambre vaudoise du commerce et de l'industrie . Together with like-minded people, he founded the insurance company Assurance mutuelle vaudoise , which later became Vaudoise Insurance . He was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud in 1917 as a representative of the economy .

Web links

• Albert Hahling: Zwahlen, Louis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .