Austrian engineer
Louis Adolf Gölsdorf. Louis Adolf Gölsdorf (16 February 1837 – 28 November 1911) was an Austrian engineer and locomotive designer. He was the father of Karl Gölsdorf .
Louis Adolf Gölsdorf was born in Plaue , Austria, on 16 February 1837 and educated in Chemnitz and Dresden in the Kingdom of Saxony at various technical schools before taking up technical work for the Leipzig–Dresden Railway Company . In 1860 he became a mechanical engineer with the Lokomotivfabrik der StEG in Vienna , but moved in 1861 to the Austrian Southern Railway , the Südbahn , where he soon took on a leading role in the locomotive design office. From 1885 to 1908 he was the chief mechanical engineer (Maschinendirektor ) of the Southern Railway (Südbahn ).
In addition to his own locomotive designs, he developed the so-called Gepäcklokomotive (luggage locomotive) with Anton Elbel , an economical type of locomotive with its own luggage compartment that was deployed on several Austro-Hungarian railways.
He died on 28 November 1911 in Vienna.
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