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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), 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.
References
- "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= - 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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