Adolphe Alois Henggeler died in Melbourne, Victoria, on April 6th, 1942, at the age of 59.
After completing four years of training at the Technical College of Zurich, Switzerland, he went to Malaya in 1905, where for five years he held various positions on tin mines. At the end of 1910 he started to practise on his own account as a consulting engineer, and ten years later formed the firm of Henggeler & Martin, Ltd., of which he remained senior partner until 1929. During that period the firm acted as general managers for a number of tin dredging companies in addition to engaging on prospecting and reporting on various properties. In 1933, still retaining an interest in his old firm, he was appointed by the Anglo-Oriental Mining Corporation, Ltd., to take charge of mining operations in the group of 39 companies comprised in the Corporation, which were operating 51 dredges, with headquarters at Kuala Lumpur. This association continued until shortly before his death.
Mr. Henggeler was elected a Member of the Institution in 1935.
Vol. 52, Trans IMM 1942-43, pp.396-7
