Adolf Herz (1862 in Nový Jičín – 1947 in Lucerne) was an Austrian-Swiss engineer and inventor.
After completing the Realschule in Brno, he studied mechanical engineering at the k&k Technische Hocshschule in Vienna, where he eventually settled down and obtained "das Bürgerrecht".
[1] Together with his brother Max, a cardiologist and Privatdozent, he designed one of the first modern blood pressure monitors.
[1] From 1905 to 1913 Adolf Herz lived in New York City, where he helped his younger brother Leopold set up a business exploiting his personal inventions in the United States.
He had lost much of his investments during the postwar economic crisis and the hyper inflation in Austria, and the rest due to the fraudulent bankruptcy of the Austrian Bank.