Summary - TST 28

TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES


TST 28

Tomás MARTÍNEZ VARA, Miguel MUÑOZ RUBIO, Pedro Pablo ORTÚÑEZ GOICOLEA

Eduardo Maristany Gibert (1855-1941). Director General de MZA
 

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Key Words: Spain, spanish railways, biography, engineers.

[ Abstract ]

This paper provides a view of a Civil Engineer, who was for a long period Chief Executive Officer of one of the main Spanish railways companies: the Compañía de los Ferrocarriles de Madrid a Zaragoza y Alicante (MZA). His multifaceted personality is enormously interesting for historiography and historical research.

He was a great man of the railways companies, in particular since 1908, when he was promoted to the Management of MZA, until 1934, when he retired voluntarily. He stood out as a builder, with the Argentera tunnel, and wrote a number of books, papers and articles. He stood out too by his typically liberal vision of labour relations. He crucially influenced the Spanish railway policy during those years, and left a profound and unmistakable mark in management and work procedures, which lasted beyond nationalisation.