Paul Diem

Paul Diem (born April 17, 1908 in Herisau ; † January 25, 1988 in Aarau ; legal resident in Herisau) was a Swiss railway director from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Aarau.

Life

Paul Diem was a son of the doctor Otto Diem. He married Verena Straumann. Diem attended grammar school in Lucerne and later studied at the ETH in Zurich (1933 graduate electrical engineer). From 1934 to 1935 he trained as a stoker and locomotive driver at SBB . From 1935 to 1939 Paul Diem worked in high voltage research at the BBC in Baden. From 1939 he was director of the Aarau-Schöftland Railway and the Wynental Railway. Paul Diem modernized both railways and in 1958 achieved their merger to form the Wynental- and Suhrentalbahn (WSB) . Until 1973 he headed the WSB and the Aarau bus company, which opened in 1955 and was subordinate to the WSB.

literature

• Jakob Heer: WSB Wynental- and Suhrentalbahn. Aarau: AT Verlag 1984. ISBN 3-85502-196-1 .
• Aargauer Tagblatt, January 30, 1988.
• Jacques Chapuis: WSB Wynental and Suhrental Railway . 12 postcards. Lausanne: Bureau vaudois d'adresses 1998.

Web links

• Andreas Steigmeier: Paul Diem. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 28, 2003 , accessed April 20, 2020 .

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