Robert Otzen

Robert Friedrich Ehlert Otzen (9 May 1872 in Giesensdorf - 3 October 1934 in Hanover) was a German infrastructure engineer.

He is considered the inventor of the word Autobahn when he was head of the Stufa car lobby group (Bahn being the German word for railway),[1] the equivalent of motorway (British English) or freeway (US English).. When a single high speed roadway was built on the Hamburg-Frankfurt-Basel route, Otzen felt that only an entire network of such roads would attract the political support needed for such a project to be built.[2]

References
  1. "Autobahn has made inroads to German imagination since 1932". Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com. August 9, 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-15. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. Vahrenkamp, Richard (2012). The Logistic Revolution: The Rise of Logistics in the Mass Consumption Society. Frankfurt: Josef Uhl Verlag. p. 135. ISBN 978-3-8441-0118-8. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
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