Dietrich Schindler-Huber

Samuel Dietrich Schindler-Huber (* July 22, 1856 ; † September 22, 1936 ; resident in Mollis and Zurich ) was a Swiss industrialist.

biography

Dietrich Schindler was born in 1856 as the son of Caspar and Wilhelmine Elise Schindler-Escher. In 1888 he married Anna Barbara Huber, the daughter of Peter Emil Huber-Werdmüller , a co-founder of Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon and Aluminum Industrie AG , and sister of the diplomat Max Huber and the engineer Emil Huber-Stockar . One of her children was the constitutional and international law specialist Dietrich Schindler .

Schindler was first a silk gauze manufacturer . His father-in-law, Peter Emil Huber-Werdmüller, was appointed commercial director of the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon (MFO) in 1903. He followed Peter Emil Huber as General Director of MFO from 1911 to 1935. He was succeeded in this function by his son Hans Schindler .

further activities

• President of the Zurich silk industry
• Board member of the Zurich Chamber of Commerce from 1889 to 1935
• Vice President of the Swiss Trade and Industry Association from 1918 to 1926
• Vice President of the Association of Swiss Machine Manufacturers from 1915
• FDP member of the Zurich Cantonal Council from 1904 to 1914
• Swiss delegate at the first International Labor Conference in Washington in 1919

Honor

• Honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich in 1931

literature

• Veronika Feller-Vest: Schindler, Samuel Dietrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland. No. 030083, accessed on August 5, 2020
• Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Neuchâtel 1921–1934, vol. 6, p. 184.
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung . No. 1181 from 1926.
• Zürcher Volkszeitung. No. 170 from 1926.
• Max Huber, Hans Sulzer: Dr. Dietrich Schindler, July 22, 1856–22. September 1936: Speeches at the abdication ceremony in the Grossmünster in Zurich on September 25, 1936. Book printing. Report house, Zurich 1936.