Ábrahám Ganz

Ábrahám Ganz (born as Abraham Ganz, November 6, 1814, Unter-Embrach, Switzerland - December 15, 1867, Pest, Austria-Hungary) is a Swiss-born Hungarian iron manufacturer, machine and technical engineer, entrepreneur, father of Ganz Works.

He is the founder and the manager of the company that he makes the flagship of the Hungarian economy in the nineteenth century.

Despite his early death by suicide in 1867, the company remains one of the strongest manufacturing enterprise in Austria-Hungary.

Many famous engineers work at Ganz Works inter alia Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri, András Mechwart, Kálmán Kandó, Donát Bánki, János Csonka and Theodore von Kármán and several world-famous inventions are done there, like the first railway electric traction, or the invention of the roller mill, the carburetor, the transformer and the Bánki-Csonka engine.

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