Lucian Büeler

Lucian Büeler (born March 28, 1910 in Zurich ; † February 6, 1952 in Solothurn ) was a Swiss civil engineer and figure skater . Büeler was responsible for the construction of the first South American artificial ice rink in Buenos Aires and from 1935 to 1937 Swiss champion in figure skating . In the last two years of his life he was a city engineer for Solothurn.

Life

Lucian Büeler, whose father was a qualified chemical engineer, spent his childhood from 1911 to 1918 in Aussig , today Ústí nad Labem ( Northern Bohemia , then Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic) and from 1919 to 1925 in the canton of Graubünden , from which his mother came. He attended schools in Aussig, Disentis , Chur (the first three classes of the canton school ) and in Klagenfurt , Austria , where he lived from 1925 to 1927. He then completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter at Sulzer in Winterthur . After he had obtained the federal Matura , Büeler studied from 1930 to 1934 at the ETH Zurich and received the diploma as civil engineer.

Büeler then initially worked as an assistant for hydraulic engineering at the ETH and as a site manager for road and bridge construction work in the Appenzellerland and the canton of St. Gallen . In winter he devoted himself entirely to winter sports . In 1938 Büeler traveled to Argentina for the first time , where he then lived from 1939 to 1947. He worked there for a subsidiary of the construction company Philipp Holzmann in the field of civil engineering. Among other things, he was involved in the construction of the Río Negro power plant in Uruguay between 1939 and 1941 . Büeler initiated the first artificial ice rink in South America in Buenos Aires , managed its construction and, after completion, also its operation.

After returning to Switzerland, he worked for the energy supply company Energie de l'ouest-suisse in Lausanne . There he worked on the project planning and construction management of the Salanfe and Grande Dixence power plants . In 1950 Lucian Büeler was elected city engineer for Solothurn . He took up this post on April 24, 1950. Numerous road and sewer systems were built during his tenure. He died on February 6, 1952 after a "brief, serious illness".

Athletic career

From 1935 to 1937, Lucian Büeler held the title of Swiss champion in figure skating . In this sport he represented Switzerland at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In 1936 and 1937 Büeler headed the Swiss “Central Course for Figure Skating”. He also skied .

Results

Competition / year	1935	1936	1937
winter Olympics		17th
World championships		14th	10.
European championships	10.
Swiss championships	1.	1.	1.

Family and personal

Lucian Büeler was married to Franziska Siegert , an Austrian born in South America . The couple had two sons (identical twins) in Lausanne in August 1948 . As a talented violinist , Büeler was a member of the Solothurn Chamber Orchestra. He had also learned violin making and collected instruments. The family moved to Germany after his death in the 1960s. One of his sons also bears the name Lucian Büeler , now runs a small recording studio in western Central Franconia and runs a singing and music school. His twin brother Andreas Büeler is very close, in Erlangen , as the director of the Theater Fifty-Fifty .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} G.A. Töndury: Necrologist: † Lucian Büeler . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 70 , issue 20, May 17, 1952, p. 299 ( online at e-periodica.ch ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} The new city engineer . In: Solothurner Zeitung . No. 38 , February 15, 1950.
3. ↑ ^{a b} On the bier by Lucian Büeler . In: Solothurner Zeitung . No. 33 , February 9, 1952.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Lucian Büeler † . In: Solothurner Zeitung . No. February 31 , 1952.
5. ↑ Lucian Büeler in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on October 16, 2016.
6. ↑ Swiss champion in figure skating. Retrieved October 17, 2016 (incorrectly spelled name Luzian Bühler ). 
7. ↑ biography
8. ↑ Lucian Büeler jun.
9. ^ Andreas Büeler