| Adolf Guyer-zeller |
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| 1839 births | |
| guyer-zeller, adolf | |
| 1899 deaths | |
| people from zürich | |
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He was the son of an owner of spinning mill and creator of a textile export trade in Zürich . After the death of his father, he led the company. He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute Of Technology in Zürich. Later he turned his attentions to what had become a booming business, the building of Railway s in Switzerland. He became, among other things, a president of the Schweizerischen Nordostbahn (NOB). Guyer-Zeller was also the founder of Jungfraubahn , (JB) and the Uerikon-Bauma-Bahn (UeBB). In order to finance the JB, he founded the Guyerzeller Bank AG in 1894 , which became fully-owned by HSBC in 2004 . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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