Eduard Sulzer-Ziegler

Eduard Sulzer-Ziegler (born September 23, 1854 in Winterthur ; † January 31, 1913 there ) was a Swiss entrepreneur and politician .

Life

Eduard Sulzer, son of Johann Jakob Sulzer (1806-1883) and grandson of the company founder of the Sulzer Brothers , attended secondary school in Winterthur, which he graduated in 1872 with the Matura . During his school days he became a member of the Vitodurania middle school association . From 1873 to 1877 he studied law, economics and mechanical engineering in Geneva, Berlin and Dresden. This was followed by a one-year linguistic and commercial training in England.

In 1878 he married Maria Helene Ziegler, a daughter of the textile manufacturer Emil Ziegler , with whom he had four children. In 1884 he moved into the Lindengut, which his father-in-law had lived in since 1867 .

Around 1878 he took over special internal administration and accounting tasks at Sulzer Winterthur. In 1881 he became a partner and in 1910 senior partner. As a staunch liberal, he advocated a reduction in working hours to 10 hours in 1891 and in 1906 for Saturday afternoons off.

Sulzer received the execution rights for a patent from Alfred Brandt for a hydraulic rock drilling machine. After taking the initiative to build the Simplon Tunnel , from 1898–1905 he headed the work as President of the tunnel construction company Brandt, Brandau & Cie .

Due to the economic development in the USA, in March 1904, at a lecture at the Zurich Commercial Association, he advocated Switzerland joining a Central European Business Association . Around 1905 he helped found the employers' association of Swiss machine manufacturers .

Sulzer-Ziegler appeared in the media landscape as the financier of the liberal New Winterthurer Tagblatt and the anti-socialist Freie Arbeiterzeitung .

Political offices

1880–1902: Large town council of Winterthur
1892–1902: Zurich Cantonal Council
1900–1913: National Council

Web links

Christian Baertschi: Sulzer [-Ziegler], Eduard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Sulzer-Ziegler Eduard, Dr. hc, 1854–1913 in the Winterthur Glossary.
Albert Baur: Necrology for Eduard Sulzer. In: Knowledge and Life , 1913

supporting documents

↑ Peter Hauser : The «Vito»: the former Winterthur «Who's who». In: Gesellschaft Winterthurer Jahrbuch (Ed.): Winterthurer Jahrbuch 2015. Winterthur 2014, ISBN 978-3-9524286-1-0 , p. 141.
↑ europa.clio-online.de
↑ Christian Jossi: From the free-spirited battle sheet to the "Eulach view" . In: Winterthurer yearbook 2004 . Edition Winterthur Foundation, Winterthur 2003, p. 52 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sulzer-Ziegler, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss entrepreneurs and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH	September 23, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH	January 31, 1913
Place of death	Winterthur

[1] Peter Hauser : The «Vito»: the former Winterthur «Who's who». In: Gesellschaft Winterthurer Jahrbuch (Ed.): Winterthurer Jahrbuch 2015. Winterthur 2014, ISBN 978-3-9524286-1-0 , p. 141.

[2] uropa.clio-online.de

[3] Christian Jossi: From the free-spirited battle sheet to the "Eulach view" . In: Winterthurer yearbook 2004 . Edition Winterthur Foundation, Winterthur 2003, p. 52 .