- Adolf Guyer-Zeller
Adolf Guyer-Zeller (
May 1 ,1839 inNeuthal bei Bauma -April 3 ,1899 ) was a Swiss entrepreneur.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 theSwiss 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 theSchweizerischen Nordostbahn (NOB). Guyer-Zeller was also the founder ofJungfraubahn , (JB) and theUerikon-Bauma-Bahn (UeBB). In order to finance the JB, he founded theBank Guyerzeller AG (nowHSBC Guyerzeller Bank AG ) in 1894, which became fully-owned byHSBC in 2004.External links
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