Eduard Locher

Eduard Locher ( born January 15, 1840 in Zurich, † June 2, 1910 ) was a Swiss engineer, inventor and freelance contractor, for his contributions to the honorary doctorate was awarded.

After completion of an industrial school he joined in 1861 in the construction business of his after the fire of Glarus ( 1861) deceased father Johann Jacob Locher- Oeri ( 1806-1861 ) a. In 1871 he visited to deepen his theoretical knowledge lectures on bridges and railways. He and his younger brother Frederick Locher (1842-1906) to bring the somewhat run-down construction business punch through unremitting hard work and drive back on the amount succeeded. They built among other things, the two Limmat Bridges of the Northeast (NOB ) in Wettingen, a section of the Gotthard railway between Flüelen and Göschenen with the Pfaffensprung tunnel, the Southeastern Railway (SOB ) by beaver bridge to Arth -Goldau, the Sihltalbahn, the Engelberg -Bahn (LSE ). From punch came also the plan for a pneumatic lift to the Virgin.

But he became famous mainly through the construction of Pilatusbahn and its specially developed gear train system (System Locher ).

Locher also participated in numerous industrial enterprises, such as the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM ), which he was president, and the Pilatusbahn.

The former Locher & Cie was split in 1998. While the areas of underground mining / civil engineering major was taken as the largest division of the Zschokke Group, remained the other activities at the founding family.