Adolf Guyer-Zeller (1 May 1839 – 3 April 1899) was a Swiss entrepreneur. Born in

Bäretswil Bäretswil is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Hinwil (district), Hinwil in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Zürich (canton), Zürich in Switzerland. History Bäretswil is first mentioned in 741 as ''Berofov ...

, Switzerland on 1 May 1839, Guyer-Zeller was the son of an owner of spinning mill and creator of a textile export trade in

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco 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 Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

s in Switzerland. He became, among other things, a president of the

Swiss Northeastern Railway The Swiss Northeastern Railway (''Schweizerische Nordostbahn''; NOB) was an early railway company in Switzerland. It also operated shipping on Lake Constance (''Bodensee'') and Lake Zürich. Until the merger of the Western Swiss Railways into the ...

(NOB). Guyer-Zeller was also the founder of

Jungfrau Railway The Jungfrau Railway (german: Jungfraubahn, JB) is a mountain railway in the Bernese Alps, connecting Kleine Scheidegg in the Bernese Oberland to the Jungfraujoch, across the Valais border. The railway, which uses a and racks, runs from the s ...

, (JB) and the Uerikon-Bauma Railway (UeBB). In order to finance the JB, he founded the Bank Guyerzeller AG in 1894, which became fully owned by HSBC in 2004. On 3 April 1899, Guyer-Zeller, aged 59, died of a heart attack in

Gallery

Baeretswil Neuthal Spinnerei.jpg, Spinning mill in Neuthal. Baeretswil Weissenbachbruecke DVZO.jpg, Train passing in front of the mill.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Guyer-Zeller, Adolf 1839 births 1899 deaths People from Hinwil District HSBC people Swiss railway entrepreneurs 19th-century Swiss businesspeople