Adolf Feller
Adolf Feller (born May 11, 1879 in Bümpliz ; † October 4, 1931 in Paris ) was a Swiss entrepreneur .
Life
Adolf Feller was born in 1879 as the son of the farmer Gottfried Feller and Anna Elisabeth Feller. Sahli born. At the pressure and expense of an uncle, he attended the city schools in Bern and then completed a commercial apprenticeship in Les Verrières . From 1897 to 1900 he trained as a businessman in Leicester, England . From 1900 to 1908 he worked in a company in Catania ( Sicily ), where he took over the development and management of the citrus trade .
In 1909 he married Emma Richi, daughter of Jakob, the technical director and co-owner of the Hasler telegraph workshop .
In the same year, on the recommendation of his father-in-law, he acquired the electronics trading company Bollier in Horgen. War-related import problems caused Feller to shift the company's focus to its own production, which brought the company a considerable boom. He adapted his products at an early stage to the new SEV standards, which he had campaigned for.
He was co-founder of the employers' association Horgen and Unterer Zürichsee, which was established in 1918.
After Adolf Feller's death, his widow and daughter Elisabeth took over management of the company, today's Feller AG , which was sold to the French Schneider Electric in 1992 .
Postcard collection Adolf Feller
Feller worked as a philocartist for decades . In 2008, Feller's granddaughter Susanna Züst Teil gave his collection of around 54,000 postcards to the ETH Library's picture archive . 15,000 views show Switzerland, the other items in the collection come from more than 140 countries. All the cards that Adolf Feller has collected and whose holdings his daughter Elisabeth has expanded have been digitized, tagged and - some with transcription - available online.
literature
- Monika Burri : The world in pocket size. The Adolf Feller postcard collection. Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-85881-339-8 .
- Elisabeth Joris , Adrian Knoepfli: A woman shapes a company: On the history of the company and Ms. Feller. Chronos , Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-905312-17-4 .
- The federal government . January 6, 1998.
Web links
- Thomas Fuchs: Feller, Adolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Holdings: Adolf Feller and Emmy Richi in the finding aids of the Swiss Social Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tilo Richter: When the eye collects. An opulent book shows historical postcards from the ETH picture archive. (PDF; 596 kB) In: Basler Zeitung . March 9, 2012, p. 39.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feller, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bümpliz |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 4, 1931 |
| Place of death | Paris |