Heinrich Wild

Heinrich Wild (Mitlödi, Canton of Glarus, 15 November 1877 – Baden, Switzerland, 26 December 1951) was a Swiss businessman, industrial designer, and inventor who was the founder of Wild Heerbrugg, a Swiss optical instruments manufacturing company.

He bought a small theodolite, and after a short time independently made expanded measurements of the flow of the river Linth.

Later Wild joined the Geometerschule (geometer school) at Winterthur and came in 1899 as a trainee to the Landestopographie (Swisstopo is a popular designation for the Swiss Federal Office of Topography) in Bern.

In 1907 he left the Landestopographie and moved to Jena, Germany, where he joined the company Carl Zeiss to build up a new department for producing geodetic instruments.

It may be perhaps typical for the inventors like Wild that he worried little about the financial condition of his company,[citation needed] and this ended finally with the consequence that Wild separated in 1932 from the company he founded, in order to be able to work as a freelance technical designer and inventor.