Alphonse Thommen

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Paul Alphonse Thommen (born February 10, 1864 in Waldenburg BL ; † November 13, 1944 in Môtiers NE) was an entrepreneur from Waldenburg in the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft .

Life

family

Alphonse Thommen was the son of the entrepreneur Gédéon Thommen (1831–1890) and Marie-Louise Jacot-Baron (1836–1895) from Le Locle. He had eight siblings. After primary school in Waldenburg and schools in Basel , he completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic in Môtiers. For further training he was in companies in Waldenburg, Moutier and Geneva . In Neuhausen he trained as a blacksmith.

In his first marriage he married Hélène-Marie Jeanrenaud von Môtiers in 1889. They had a son named Eric. His second marriage was in 1915 with Berta Meier from Zurich .

From 1906 until his death, Thommen lived in Môtiers in the Val-de-Travers .

military

In the Swiss military he reached the rank of major in the infantry . He became a battalion commander .

economy

From 1891 to 1906 he was a member of the board of directors of the Waldenburgerbahn . He acted as a censor at the Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank (BLKB).

Career

In 1889 he took over the duties of chief mechanic in the Gédéon Thommen watch factory . After his father's death in December 1890, he took over the company and was able to expand it steadily. In 1892 he founded a factory for the manufacture of watch components and screws. The Tschudin & Heid company was founded in 1900 from this company.

In 1905 the Gédéon Thommen watch factory was converted into a stock company and the name was changed to Thommens Uhrenfabrik AG . Alphons Thommen took over the office of President on the Board of Directors until 1932. Then his brother-in-law Hermann Straumann took over the chairmanship and management of the company's fortunes. Thommen remained on the Board of Directors as a delegate until 1944. The Thommens Uhrenfabrik AG changed into Revue Thommen AG in 1987 .

literature

  • Hans Leupin: 100 years of the Waldenburgerbahn, 1880–1980. Verlag Dietschi AG, Waldenburg, 1980

Web links

  • Alphonse Thommen in the personal lexicon of the State Archives of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft

Notes and individual references

The connections
  1. ^ Tschudin + Heid AG - history . Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  2. ^ Hermann Straumann (1862–1948), von Waldenburg
personal data
SURNAME Thommen, Alphonse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenburg BL
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1944
Place of death Môtiers