Albert Buss-Wenger

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Albert Buss (born January 17, 1862 in Badenweiler ; † October 1, 1912 in Basel ) was a German- Swiss entrepreneur in the construction of railways , bridges and tunnels , founder of the company Albert Buss & Cie.

Life

Albert Buss-Wenger (1862–1912), grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Family grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel

The ancestors of Albert Buss came from the original in Wenslingen resident (now District Sissach in the canton of Basel-Country) Family Buess , from a branch after the Thirty Years' War in the Markgräflerland ( Margraviate of Baden-Durlach had emigrated). Albert Buss was the son of the Badenweiler master locksmith Johann Georg Buss and his wife Agnes Gütlin. After attending elementary school, he also learned the trade as a locksmith. In 1883, at the age of 22, he founded his own building and art locksmith's workshop on Clarastrasse in Kleinbasel , which began operations in 1884. In 1889 he received citizenship in Basel. The company moved several times within the city limits of Basel, in 1893/94 Buss relocated most of the production to Pratteln in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, but the company headquarters, administration and design department remained in Basel. In 1901 the company changed its legal form to a stock corporation with a capital of 2.5 million Swiss francs. Albert Buss was now delegate of the board of directors . Buss AG rose to become the leading company in hydraulic steel construction in Switzerland .

The owner of Buss AG was also a committed citizen in public life. From 1899 the liberals sent him to the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt . From 1907 to 1912 Buss was a member of the Reformed Synod and the board of directors of the parish of St. Leonhard in the old town of Grossbasel . In business life, Buss was the initiator and co-founder as well as the first president of the energy supply company Elektra Baselland . In 1905 he was a co-founder of the Association of Swiss Bridge and Iron Building Factories and its first president.

Albert Buss was married to Maria Elisabetha Wenger (1859–1940) from Vögisheim near Müllheim in Baden , with whom he had three daughters and three sons. He died at 2 o'clock on the night of September 1, 1912, at the age of 50, of complications from a stomach problem. One of the sons, Walter Buss-Hofstetter (1890–1947), took over management of the company in 1936 and developed Buss AG into a global company.

literature

  • Albert Buss-Wenger †. In: National newspaper . October 2, 1912
  • Albert Buss, Pratteln / Basel. In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung . April 20, 1991
  • Alexander Leupin: Local history of Pratteln. Cantonal print and material center, Liestal 1968, p. 131ff.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ The entry September 30th as the day of death in the Basler Stadtbuch 1913  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. is incorrect, Buss only died at 2 a.m. the following day.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.basler-stadtbuch.ch  
  2. ^ André Salathé: Buss, Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Buss-Wenger, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buss, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Badenweiler
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1912
Place of death Basel