Christian Gasser

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Christian Gasser (born December 30, 1906 in Wahlern ; † December 19, 1990 in Zurich ) was a Swiss business leader. During the Second World War he was a co-founder and secretary of the Gotthard Association .

Life

Gasser studied economics at the University of St. Gallen and the University of Bern and received his doctorate in 1933 in Bern. rer. pole. He then held leading positions in the private sector. From 1947 to 1953 he taught as a professor for business administration at the University of St. Gallen. From 1953 he was managing director of Georg Fischer AG . In 1960 he became the owner and 1961 Chairman of the Board of Directors of the machine manufacturer Mikron .

In 1938 he joined the Federal Action , in 1939 he was a co-founder of the Federation of People Without Subsidies. In 1940 Gasser was a co-founder of the Gotthard Federation and later its secretary.

In 1979 the University of St. Gallen awarded Christian Gasser an honorary doctorate .

His estate is in the Archives for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich.

Fonts

  • Federal economy. Gotthard-Bund, Verlag Rascher, Zurich 1941.
  • The Gotthard Bund. A Swiss resistance movement. From the archives 1940 to 1948. With a foreword by Friedrich Traugott Wahlen . Verlag Haupt, Bern / Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-258-03354-4 .

literature

  • Christian Werner: For economy and fatherland. Renewal movements and bourgeois interest groups in German-speaking Switzerland, 1928–1947. Chronos, Zurich 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Hans-Rudolf Kurz : On the Swiss resistance in 1940 . The Fourier, official organ of the Swiss Fourier Association and the Association of Swiss Fourier Assistants, Volume 58 1985, Issue 4.
personal data
SURNAME Gasser, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss business leader and co-founder of the Gotthard Association
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Electors
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1990
Place of death Zurich