Anton Cadonau

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Memorial stone with bronze plaque (close-up)
Memorial stone with bronze plaque near Jörgenberg Castle

Anton Cadonau (born January 14, 1850 in Waltensburg / Vuorz , † February 25, 1929 in Ospedaletti ) was a Swiss businessman .

Life

Cadonau attended the mercantile department of the canton school in Chur from 1863 to 1867 and was trained as a businessman in Zurich and Lyon from 1867 to 1873 . From 1873 to 1883 he worked as a representative of a Hamburg department store in Singapore , after which he was directly employed in Hamburg. From 1888 he lived again in Singapore, this time initially as an authorized signatory and from 1896 as a partner in the Swiss colonial goods wholesaler Fischer, Huber & Co. When the company was dissolved after Huber's death, from 1900 he ran his own export company Cadonau & from Paris. Co. This merged in 1906 with the Singapore and Zurich-based company Diethelm & Co, which became part of the DKSH in 2002.

Cadonau was unmarried and had no children. When he died in 1929, he left a fortune of around 11 million francs, which he bequeathed to social, cultural, ecclesiastical and political foundations in Switzerland and the Canton of Graubünden . The Anton Cadonau Fund supported Pro Juventute and the Kinder der Landstrasse aid organization, among others . With funds from the fund, Jörgenberg Castle was acquired for the community of Waltensburg. Various memorial plaques in Waltensburg / Vuorz remember him.

literature

  • Anton Cadonau von Waltensburg, 1850–1929: Speeches at his funeral. Bischofberger & Co., Chur 1929.
  • Important Grisons from five centuries. Vol. 2., Calven-Verlag, Chur 1970. pp. 247-249

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personal data
SURNAME Cadonau, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss businessman
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltensburg / Vuorz
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1929
Place of death Ospedaletti