Wilhelm Ehrenberg

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Wilhelm Heinrich von Ehrenberg (born July 26, 1834 in Riesbach ; † May 11, 1892 there ) was a Swiss entrepreneur .

Life

The son of Carl Ferdinand von Ehrenberg was the first telegraph operator in the city of Zurich from 1852 to 1863 . Later he worked in the telegraph factory of Matthäus Hipp , on whose behalf he traveled to Europe.

On September 9, 1858, he married Anna Maria Ohngemach (1836-1894) from Küsnacht. The couple had seventeen children, four of whom died in childhood.

After the Swiss Federal Council had subordinated the telephone system to the federal government in February 1878 , it lodged a complaint against it because of restrictions on the freedom of trade and business , but this was rejected by the Federal Assembly in December . Readiness to license private lines was signaled. Ehrenberg was incorporated as a partner in Jakob Kuhn's (1845-1893) company in 1880, which was then renamed Kuhn & Ehrenberg, the telegraph workshop in Uster and Zurich . In April they submitted their application for a license to build a central telephone station in Zurich . Before this was available, they set up the first connection between the fire station at the Brodlaube and the police station in St. Clara using Bell devices. When the Swiss Singing Festival took place in Zurich on July 11, 1880 , he installed a telephone transmission on the telegraph line to Basel , where the performance could be listened to. Two months later, he ceded his license, which was issued in mid-May 1880, to the Zurich Telephony Company , which was being founded.

When Alfred Zellweger acquired their company at the end of 1880 , Kuhn left the company, whereupon it was renamed A. Zellweger & W. Ehrenberg in Uster . Ehrenberg continued to work for this company, which today operates under the name of Uster Technologies . In 1891 he cured himself in Davos , but died of heart failure the following May.

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SURNAME Ehrenberg, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrenberg, Wilhelm Heinrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Riesbach
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1892
Place of death Riesbach