Emil Ziehl

Emil Ziehl (1873 – 1 June 1939) was a German engineer and entrepreneur.

With the Swiss investor Eduard Abegg he founded in early 1910 the company Ziehl-Abegg. Ziehl had big expectations for Abegg, who was to develop wind turbines. After the company's logo (with Abegg's name on it) was already made public, Abegg failed to bring the promised funds. The introduced patent for the wind motors also turned out to be unsuitable. Abegg left the company two months later. Günther Ziehl began his studies in 1935 at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin)] and later led his father's company.

The Schöntal community in Baden-Württemberg acknowledged the work of Ziehl in 2015 naming a street after him. The street is located in Bieringen, a locality of Schöntal where Ziehl-Abegg has a production plant. The street sign was presented on the occasion of the 50-year celebration of production work at Schöntal-Bieringen. The mayor, Patrizia Filz, presented this sign to the grandson of Ziehl, Uwe Ziehl.