(1869 – 1931)

Engineer, inventor. ‘Father of the electric locomotive’.

He is known as the father of the electric train. Under his leadership, the Ganz factory began work on three-phase hauling for railways. Based on their design, the Italian Valtellina railway line was electrified, which became Europe’s first electrified main railway line.

Invented: high-voltage three-phase alternating current motors and generators for electric locomotives, rotary phase converter.