Antal Eichleiter
| Antal Eichleiter | |
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| Born |
Anton Eichleiter 1 March 1831 Augsburg, Bavaria |
| Died | 31 May 1902 (aged 71) Rorschach, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Nationality |
Bavarian (German) Hungarian Swiss |
| Education |
Gymnasium bei St. Anna, Augsburg Polytechnikum of Augsburg, Augsburg |
| Spouse(s) | Doris Wundsch |
| Children | Friederike Hermann Emil Anna Julius Bernhard Fritz |
| Parent(s) | Andreas Eichleiter Caroline Steinhard |
| Engineering career | |
| Institutions | Thuringian Railways (Thüringer Bahn) Cramer-Klett (today MAN SE) Ganz Works |
Anton Eichleiter (Hungarian: Eichleiter Antal, Augsburg, 1 March 1831 – Rorschach, 31 May 1902) was a German iron manufacturer, manager of the Ganz Works.
Eichleiter was born to a family originated in Augsburg. His parents were Andreas Eichleiter, teacher in the Lutheran Gymnasium bei St. Anna, and Caroline Steinhard, daughter of a Lutheran priest. Eichleiter had eight siblings of whom three died in an early age and after his mother's death his father had to take care of them. After the primary school he went to an industrial and agricultural vocational school in Augsburg. Then he studied at the Polytechnikum (today the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences).
After finishing his studies he worked first as a locksmith then as a technical drawer in Erfurt, Thuringia at the main workshop of the Thüringer Bahn. In 1854 he was employed by the Cramer-Klett (predecessor of MAN SE) where he was commissioned to hand over the produced wagons to the 'Tisza Railway' (Tiszai Vasút) company in Szolnok, Austria-Hungary. The wheels of these wagons were delivered by the Ganz Works based in Buda, Austria-Hungary. He met the Swiss-born Hungarian industrialist Ábrahám Ganz (father of the Ganz Works) there who offered him a job in his foundry. His first project was to create a new, bigger workshop. He designed the one-piece chill casted peak inserts to the railway crossings. Beside his planner job he managed the correspondence with different railway companies.
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