Walter Boveri (* 21 February 1865 in Bamberg, Germany; "† 28 October 1924 bathing, Switzerland), was a Industrieller and a founder of Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC).

It was catholic, son of the physician Theodor Boveri. Its brother Theodor Boveri June. was a well-known German biologist. Married starting from 1891 with Victoire Baumann, Tochter von Conrad Baumann, an inhabitant of Zurich silk seidenindustriellen.

Diploma of the royal mechanical engineering school in Nuremberg, 1885 unsalaried employee and shortly thereafter assembly leaders for electrical system with engine works Oerlikon, there acquaintance with Charles Eugen Lancelot Brown.

After longer financing efforts created both 1891 owing to a loan of Boveris the father-in-law the company Brown, Boveri & Cie. (today: Asea Brown Boveri) in bathing. While Brown worried about the technical interests, was Boveri, although technically talented, the commercial leader.

Its earnings/services are the 1900 using development from BBC to the international large concern. After Browns retreat in the private life was Boveri 1911-24 board of directors president. On its Veranlassung 1895 different banks created the AG engine, those the capital for the structure v.a. the Italian and the Swiss electricity supply industry up-brought and 1923, under Boveri as a president (1895-1924), with which Columbus AG fused to the engine Columbus.

Boveri different electricity companies and during the 1. World war the suisse de surveillance Its efforts toward the course electrification registered a board of directors mandate of the SBB to him.

1916 Dr. h.c the ETH Zurich and honour citizen of bathing. As a president of different urban commissions actively in the Badener local politics.

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