Bühler (entrepreneurial family)

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Bühler is the name of a family of entrepreneurs and politicians from Hombrechtikon and Uzwil in Switzerland . Among other things, she is the owner of the company Bühler AG , which employs 10,000 people and generates sales of over 2 billion francs.

family

Bühler was based at the Schirmensee in Feldbach near Hombrechtikon . A Hans Bühler from there is mentioned in 1418, a Heini Bühler from Feldbach in 1512. The progenitor of the political and corporate dynasty is Heinrich Bühler (1604–1661), who was a farmer , miller and governor . Among her four sons were officials, judges and officers in the Grüningen estate .

Uzwiler branch

First generation: Adolf Bühler senior

Adolf Bühler senior

Adolf Bühler was born in Feldbach in 1822 as the fifth of fifteen children of Hans Kaspar. Adolf started an apprenticeship in foundry in 1842 and went rolling abroad. In Graz he managed to become a master.

Adolf Bühler opened a foundry with two employees in the hamlet of Gupfen, which later became the village of Uzwil. His first customer was the Benninger brothers .

In 1868 he married Maria Seline Naef, 22 years his junior, the granddaughter of Mathias Naef , the founder of Mathias Naef & Cie. The first child of the Protestant family was Gustav Adolf Bühler, the fourth of five boys was Friedrich Theodor Bühler. All five sons worked in the company.

Adolf's interest in mechanical engineering meant that Bühler not only cast rollers, but also built roller mills and entire mills itself over time . In 1875 he created a health insurance scheme for his employees, as well as welfare funds and residential buildings and schools.

At the time of Adolf Bühler's death in 1896, the Adolf Bühler company had 600 employees and 40 factory buildings. In addition, branches were set up in several countries.

Second generation

Iron foundry Adolf Bühler, ca.1860

Adolf's five sons took over the Adolf Bühler foundry . The company has been run in the form of a general partnership since 1901 . The management of the Bühler brothers became the oldest son, Gustav Adolf Bühler, Adolf Bühler jun. called, handed over.

Adolf Bühler junior

In 1893 Gustav Adolf Bühler joined the management team and after Adolf senior's death took over. the group management. Adolf Bühler jun. 1898–1906 was an FDP canton councilor, he was also a member of the municipal council and the Protestant church council of Henau, today Uzwil.

He married the daughter of the banker Adolf Forter . Her children included Robert Adolf Bühler and Max René Bühler .

The philosophy of Adolf Bühler sen. was continued, employee apartments were opened in 1915 and the first company canteen in Switzerland was opened in 1918 under the leadership of the Swiss Soldiers' Association ; it was the cornerstone of business catering for today's SV Group , and Bühler also created one of the first apprentice workshops. But architecturally it stood out from the senior. Adolf Sr. built the factories appropriately, Adolf jun. on the other hand, had the company buildings and the residential buildings built by the office Pflegehard and Haefeli . The intensive collaboration ended around 1911, the newer buildings and rooms were designed by Robert Maillart .

In 1912 Adolf jun. from the company Mathias Naef den Bettenauer Weiher , in 1927 he sold it to the Bühler brothers. When he died in 1939, the Bühler brothers employed around 2,800 people.

Theodor Bühler

His younger brother Friedrich Theodor was considered a bon vivant. He described himself as a cosmopolitan. His first son Rolf Theodor Bühler was born in Bournemouth , England, during a world tour with his wife .

When he returned to Uzwil, he lived in the "Schöntal" house. He had it renovated easily. Inspired by his stay in England, he then decided, through Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott, to build the country house Waldbühl in Uzwil, which was in the English style . Back then it was criticized because of the foreign style that did not fit into Switzerland, but today it is a cultural asset of national importance .

Third generation

René Bühler

In 1934 Max René Bühler , the son of Adolf Bühler jun., Was accepted into the general partnership. With the death of Adolf Bühler, he, his eldest brother Robert Adolf and his cousin Rolf Theodor were influential in the expansion of the company into a global corporation.

René Bühler and his wife Madeleine Robert-dit-Rose had two sons, Max Heinrich Bühler and Urs Felix Bühler.

René Bühler was a member of the National Council ( FDP ) from 1951 to 1959 . He was a patron of the British-Swiss parliamentarian ski race , was the initiator of the St. Gallen evening technical school and founded the Swiss School of Milling .

He sat on the board of directors from 1967 to 1985 and was chairman of the company from 1977 to 1985. René died in 1987, his wife in 1996.

Rolf Bühler

Rolf Theodor Bühler , son of Friedrich Theodor, was born in Bournemouth in 1903. He joined the company in 1933, was an FDP politician in the Grand Council of St. Gallen from 1939–1942, and in the National Council from 1941–1943 and 1944–1947 .

Fourth generation: Urs Bühler

René Bühler had two sons. The older son was the lawyer Max Bühler, he headed Bühler Japan. He died in 1987.

Urs Felix Bühler, the second child, became sole owner and CEO of the company after Hanspeter Bühler, son of Robert Adolf Bühler, left the company in 1990 due to differences. In 1981 Urs Bühler became a member of the company's board of directors. In 1994 he took over its presidium. With his first wife, Eva Charles, he has three daughters, Karin Andrea, Maya Bettina and Jeannine Martina, who are now partners in Bühler AG.

In 2001, for the first time in the company's history, he handed over management of the business to a person outside the family, Calvin Grieder. Urs Bühler remained Chairman of the Board of Directors.

In his free time he devoted himself to equestrian sports. He had a military course built especially for him on his land and qualified for the Swiss Military Championship in 1992. He trained as an animal kinesiologist . With his future second wife, Marisa Polanec , also an animal kinesiologist, he opened a horse health center, HealthBalance, in Oberuzwil in May 2004 .

He also founded Global Scaling Technologies AG, with Hartmut Müller, the founder of the so-called global scaling theory , on the board of directors. The "theory", which has meanwhile been recognized as fraudulent, was concerned with "balancing out dissonances and the asynchronous" so that everything was "in harmony". Global Scaling Technologies AG wanted to expand these processes and procedures. In 2006 the company ended its engagement with Hartmut Müller and Urs Bühler resigned as president. He became president of the successor company at the same headquarters in Uzwil, TecData AG, which today primarily deals with data mining .

Fifth generation

Urs Bühler handed over large parts of his block of shares to his three daughters, making them the new partners of Bühler AG alongside Urs Bühler. As of 2018, Karin, Maya and Jeannine Bühler are on the Group's Board of Directors.

Family members

The family includes:

  1. Adolf Bühler (1822–1896), founder, married. with Marie Seline Naef
    1. Gustav Adolf Bühler (1869–1939), machine industrialist, m. with Alice Forter (1879–1974)
      1. Robert Adolf Bühler (1904–1981), partner, married. with Salomea Margrith Gredig (1907–2000)
        1. Adolf Hanspeter Bühler (1940–2000), partner; mated with Angela Hidber (* 1940) and with Ulrike Remus
        2. Annette Elisabeth Bühler (* 1941), partner
        3. Thomas Andreas Bühler (* 1943), partner
      2. Max René Bühler (1905–1987), CEO, partner, FDP National Council, m. with Madeleine Robert-dit-Rose (1906–1996)
        1. Max Heinrich Bühler (1942–1987), partner
        2. Urs Felix Bühler (* 1943), partner, CEO, Chairman of the Board of Directors
          1. mated with Eva Charles (* 1954)
          2. Karin Andrea Bühler (* 1978), partner, member of the board of directors
          3. Maya Bettina Bühler (* 1981), partner, member of the board of directors
          4. Jeannine Martina Bühler (* 1986), partner, member of the board of directors
          5. mated with Marisa Polanec (* 1957)
      3. Alice Elisabeth Bühler (* 1911)
      4. Nelly Marcelie Bühler (1913-2003)
      5. Felix Max Bühler (1916–1920)
    2. Karl Robert Bühler (1872–1916), partner
    3. Heinrich Otto Bühler (1874–1946), partner, married. with Olga Marie Doss (1881–1960)
    4. Friedrich Theodor Bühler (1877–1915), partner, married. with Helene Mey (1878–1936)
      1. Rolf Theodor Bühler (1903–1992), partner, married. with Sina Margaretha Heinz (* 1919)
      2. Lenox Theodor Bühler (1905–1986)
      3. Marion Lonia Bühler (1907–1985)
      4. Lonia Marna Bühler (1910–1971)
      5. Theodor Ingo Bühler (1912–1973)
    5. Emil Walter Bühler (1888–1969), partner, married. with Vally Scholz (1907–1982)

Other members

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Müller: Bühler (family, ZH, Hombrechtikon). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 8, 2004 , accessed September 24, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Peter Müller: Adolf Bühler No. 1. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 30, 2003 , accessed September 3, 2012 .
  3. ↑ a b c Industriekultur Nordostschweiz, issue 56, May 2009: Bühler Uzwil: a technology group (PDF; 369 kB), page 3, accessed on September 3, 2012
  4. ↑ a b c d e f NZZ am Sonntag: No bread without Bühler , April 15, 2012, p. 38ff
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Daniel A. Walser: Pflegehard & Haefeli. Buildings for the Bühler brothers in Uzwil. An identity for a builder. (PDF; 18.4 MB), accessed on August 20, 2012
  6. ↑ a b Paul Gämperli: Bettenau  ( page can no longer be accessed , 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. (PDF; 130 kB), chronicle@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.jonschwil.ch  
  7. ↑ www.buhlergroup.com: Company history (Flash)
  8. ^ Primary school Kirchstrasse Niederuzwil: History , accessed on September 19, 2012
  9. ↑ a b c Peter Müller: Adolf Bühler No. 2. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 8, 2004 , accessed September 3, 2012 .
  10. ↑ SV Foundation: Milestones ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 19, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sv-stiftung.ch
  11. ^ Peter Müller: René Bühler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 30, 2003 , accessed September 3, 2012 .
  12. ↑ NZZ online: Friendship of the Nations on Ski , accessed on September 19, 2012
  13. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt dated June 14, 2007: Milling Technical School celebrates anniversary , accessed on January 9, 2012
  14. ^ Stefan Gemperli: Rolf Bühler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 30, 2003 , accessed September 3, 2012 .
  15. ↑ a b www.buhlergroup.com: Urs Bühler
  16. ↑ Hartmut Müller: raum & zeit Special 1 Global Scaling, online on Google Books , accessed on September 19, 2012
  17. ↑ a b Balance sheet: The new passion of the mill builder , edition 8/2005, accessed on September 3, 2012
  18. ↑ State of Vorarlberg: Profile of Marisa Polanec (PDF; 60 kB)
  19. ^ Fraud with gravitational waves FAZ April 21, 2012, online edition, accessed October 25, 2012
  20. ↑ According to the commercial register report ( source ): "People deleted or signatures revoked: Bühler Urs, ..."
  21. ↑ According to the commercial register report ( source ): "When it is founded, the company takes over ... assets ... in accordance with the transfer of assets contract dated February 22, 2006 from Global Scaling Technologies AG."
  22. ↑ Silvia Scherz: Johann Heinrich Bühler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 8, 2004 , accessed September 24, 2012 .