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Maurice Koechlin (3 June 1856 – 14 January 1946) was a French people-Swiss people structural engineer from the Koechlin family.
When France lost the Franco-Prussian war to Prussia in 1871 the entire Koechlin family decided to become citizens of Switzerland and thus dropped French citizenship. After the defeat of the German Empire in 1918, however, the Koechlin family again applied for French citizenship. drelsassblogfumernest-emile at hautetfort.com, retrieved 2013-08-09 (in French)
Maurice attended the lycée in Mulhouse, then between 1873 and 1877 studied civil engineering at the ETH Zurich under Carl Culmann. In 1876 he became a citizen of Zurich (" Zürcher Bürger")Bergier, J.-F., Fabre-Koechlin, M., Dubas, P. "Dipl.Ing. Maurice Koechlin und der Eiffelturm", Schriftenreihe der ETH-Bibliothek, 27 (1990): p.20, retrieved 2013-08-11 (in German and French) Between 1877 and 1879 he worked for the French railway company " Chemin de Fer de l'Est".
Much of his work was done for Gustave Eiffel's "Compagnie des établissements Eiffel", which Koechlin joined in 1879. In 1886 Maurice married Emma Rossier (1867-1965). They had six children: three sons and three daughters. Maurice and Emma were lifelong members of the Plymouth Brethren.
In 1887 he started work on his plans for the Tour de 300 mètres"/" itemprop="url" title="Wiki: Eiffel Tower">Eiffel Tower in Paris, along with his younger brother Henri Koechlin and civil engineer Émile Nouguier. Maurice Koechlin became the Managing Director of Eiffel's company when Eiffel retired from the engineering profession in 1893. The company was renamed Société de construction de Levallois-Perret. " Société de construction de Levallois-Perret", at structurae.de, retrieved 2013-08-20 (in English)
Maurice Koechlin died in 1946 in Veytaux, Switzerland in a house built by himself in 1900. "Zum Tode des schweizerischen Erbauers der "Tour de 300 mètres" Maurice Koechlin" Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1110 (1946), retrieved 2013-08-11 (in German)
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