Theodor Lutz

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Theodor Lutz (* 1841 ; † 1890 ) was an engineer from Zurich . He lost his job with the Swiss National Railway due to the decline of the railway company . When the project for a railway line through the Seetal was pending, he designed the future Seetalbahn as a standard-gauge tram . He looked for donors by traveling to different countries and found it in London in the autumn of 1880 . Thanks to him, an English corporation financed the construction of the railway line.

literature

  • Hans Waldburger, Martin Senn: The Seetalbahn . 100 years from the Lake Valley Railway to the unique SBB branch line. Minirex-AG, Lucerne 1983, DNB 870655353
personal data
SURNAME Lutz, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1841
DATE OF DEATH 1890