Adolph Saurer

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Portrait of Adolph Saurer. Detail from the bronze relief in the wall of Arbon Castle. Created by the Eglisau artist Ernst Heller for the Saurer anniversary in 1953

Adolph Saurer (born February 14, 1841 in Tablat ; † February 23, 1920 in Arbon , TG ) was a Swiss entrepreneur.

The son of Franz Saurer and Maria Catharina Saurer-Kunz took over the company F. Saurer & Söhne, domiciled in Arbon, in 1896 and developed it into a large industrial company that manufactured embroidery machines , weaving machines and trucks . When he died, the company in Arbon employed 2,918 people and had a turnover of 32.3 million Swiss francs . The stock corporation Adolph Saurer , founded shortly afterwards by the only son Hippolyt , forms the foundation of today's Saurer AG, a technology group that is active in textile machine construction and drive technology.

literature

  • Erich Trösch: Saurer, Adolph. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Hans Ulrich Wipf, Mario König , Adrian Knoepfli: Saurer. From a small business in Eastern Switzerland to an international technology group . hier + now, publishing house for culture and history, Baden 2003, ISBN 3-906419-55-X
  • Hans Muggli: Adolf Saurer AG. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 7, 1931, pp. 60–68 ( e-periodica )
  • Markus Mäder: Three generations of Saurer. Franz Saurer (1806–1882), Adolph Saurer (1841–1920), Hippolyt Saurer (1878–1936) . Swiss pioneers in business and technology, Volume 48, published by the Association for Economic History Studies, Meilen 1988
personal data
SURNAME Saurer, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1920
Place of death Arbon , Switzerland