Carl Franz Bally
Carl Franz Bally (born October 24, 1821 in Schönenwerd ; † August 15, 1899 in Basel ) was a Swiss entrepreneur. He founded the Bally shoe factory .
Life
Bally was the son of the Austrian immigrant Peter Bally . He had thirteen siblings: ten brothers and three sisters. Two brothers and a sister died young. On September 3, 1846, Bally married Cäcilie Rychner, who came from Aarau. They had two sons, Eduard Bally (1847–1926). Arthur Bally (1849–1912), who joined the company after completing their training.
His son, later National Councilor Eduard Bally, married Marie Prior in 1874. Together they founded the “Bally Prior Museum” in 1910 in Schönenwerd. Due to a lack of funding, his collections were auctioned in 2003 and the museum closed. Part of the collection is now kept in the Cantonal Geological Museum in Lausanne .
Shortly before the death of Peter Bally, the family business was split up. Carl Franz and his brother Fritz Bally received the braces and elastic manufacture "Bally & Co." in Schönenwerd. In 1851, Carl Franz and his brother Fritz founded the Bally company after he had the idea on a trip to Paris that shoe production based on mass production could have potential in Switzerland. Fritz Bally left the company in 1854.
Carl Franz Bally was a tireless company founder. Although his shoes initially sold poorly because of a poor fit and because they looked bulky and he could only pay his employees irregularly and late, he remained true to his vision. Only the opportunity to export his manufactured shoes to South America, where they found buyers from planters and colonists, did the company's economic situation improve in 1857. After his son Eduard's study trip to the USA, production was consequently switched to machine work from 1870 and the shoes, which were now known for their quality and elegance, were sold in a network of branches around the world.
Carl Franz Bally, who set up other production sites in Switzerland in addition to Schönenwerd and introduced shift and Sunday work, was politically active and significantly involved in the introduction of patent law in Switzerland. He died on August 15, 1899 after a long illness and left behind a shoe empire that drove the industrialization of Switzerland.
Richard Kissling created a memorial for Bally in Schönenwerd. Bally found his final resting place in the cemetery of his birthplace Schönenwerd in the canton of Solothurn .
Movies
- The Patriarch's Shoe ( Bruno Moll 1988)
literature
- Arnold Bally: Memories from times past. Ballyana Archive, Foundation for Bally Family and Company History, Schönenwerd 2006.
- Alex Capus : Patriarchs: Ten Portraits. Albrecht Knaus, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-8135-0273-2 .
- Gerold Ermatinger: Carl Franz Bally. Atlantis, Zurich 1938.
- Peter Heim : Kingdom of Bally. Factory owners and workers in Schönenwerd. here + now , Baden 2000, ISBN 978-3-906419-21-3 .
- Peter Heim: Carl Franz Bally. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 11, 2001 .
- Clauspeter Scalabrin (ed.): Pioneer and Pfaffenschreck: The memoirs of Carl Franz Bally. On behalf of the Foundation for Bally Family and Company History Ballyana Archive Schönenwerd, here + now, Baden, AG 2009, ISBN 978-3-03919-083-6 .
- Hans Rudolf Schmid: Bally, Carl Franz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 564 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Biography on webquests.ch
- Publications by and about Carl Franz Bally in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ The Bally Prior Museum in Schönenwerd
- ^ Phillipp Abegg: The history of the museum Bally-Prior
- ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Carl Franz Bally
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bally, Carl Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schönwerd |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1899 |
| Place of death | Basel |