Ernst Schmidheiny (industrialist, 1871)

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Ernst Schmidheiny I, 1871–1935

Ernst Schmidheiny , also Ernst I. (born April 1, 1871 in Heerbrugg ; † March 15, 1935 on the Sinai Peninsula ) was a Swiss industrialist and politician who belongs to the Schmidheiny family dynasty .

Life

Ernst Schmidheiny was born in Heerbrugg Castle as the son of Jacob Schmidheiny and Elise Schmidheiny, b. Merchant from Toggenburg, born. He was killed in a plane crash in the Sinai desert in 1935 . First he attended the St. Gallen Cantonal School , then the Neuchâtel business school . He had language stays in Italy and England . Schmidheiny married Vera Kluster, the daughter of a banker, in 1896. With her he gave birth to two daughters, Vera-Lydia and Marie-Luis, and two sons Ernst Schmidheiny and Max Schmidheiny .

For Ernst Schmidheiny, the task of price regulation was at the fore at the beginning of his work. With the help of cartels between the eastern Swiss brickworks run by Schmidheiny with the five Zurich brickworks merged in 1912 and the consolidation of the professional organization, it was possible, under the influence of the First World War , to achieve an understanding from the mid-1910s, the "between the eastern Swiss and Zurich brickworks", so the wording of a minutes of the General Assembly of 1915, "organized for years under the leadership of far-sighted men". Since 2012, on the company's 100th anniversary, the Zürcher Ziegeleien company has been called Conzzeta due to its diverse, diversified fields of activity . In 1916 Ernst Schmidheiny resigned as a delegate of the Zurich brickworks, as his activities as a negotiator with trade contracts during the First World War were too stressful for him.

economy

Schmidheiny joined his father's brickworks , and from 1902 he was a partner. Together with his brother Jacob , he ran his father's brick factory. Ernst founded the Balgach wine cooperative in 1904, thus establishing the interest in viticulture that has continued in the family to this day. Together with his brother, he founded the Heerbrugg school community in 1906. He founded the Rüthi AG cement factory in the Rhine Valley. In 1910 he co-founded the Portland Cement Cartel Registered Cooperative. From 1912 to 1925 he was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zurich Brickworks . He was president of the financial company Holderbank Financière Glarus AG in 1930.

politics

In St. Gallen Cantonal he sat from 1905 to 1918 for the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland . He was a member of the National Council from 1911 to 1919. He was head of the Swiss compensation office from 1914 to 1917.

Awards and titles

See also

literature

  • Jakob Bösch: Three Schmidheiny: Jacob Schmidheiny, Ernst Schmidheiny, Jacob Schmidheiny. (Swiss pioneers in business and technology. Volume 32). Association for Economic History Studies, Zurich 1979.
  • Walter de Gruyter: German Biographical Encyclopedia . tape 9 . KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Company, 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096502-5 , p. 924 .
  • Hans O. Staub: From Schmidheiny to Schmidheiny . In: Swiss pioneers in business and technology . tape 61 . Miles: Association for Economic History Studies, 1994, ISBN 978-3-909059-07-2 , p. 208 .
  • François Höpflinger: The uncanny empire: economic integration in Switzerland . Eco-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 978-3-85637-026-8 , pp. 270 .
  • Paul Emil Usteri (1853–1927): Judgments of the first and higher instance in the criminal case of the National Councilor Ernst Schmidheiny in Herrbrugg, plaintiff against Otto Peter, businessman, in Bucharest, accused of defamation and defamation , E. Löpfe-Benz printing house, Roschach 1919

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Brüschweiler-Wilhelm: From farmer boy to large industrialist: Cantonal Councilor Jakob Schmidheiny . Friedrich Reinhardt, Basel, 2nd edition, 1908
  2. ↑ Jakob Bösch: Drei Schmidheiny: Jacob Schmidheiny, Ernst Schmidheiny, Jacob Schmidheiny. (Swiss pioneers in business and technology. Volume 32). Association for Economic History Studies, Zurich 1979
  3. ↑ a b Höchstern nature reserve. (PDF) Milly Hug, accessed December 23, 2013 .
  4. ↑ VISIT TO THE SCHMIDHEINY WINE ESTATE, HEERBRUGG. (PDF) Swiss International Club, August 30, 2013, accessed on December 23, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidheiny, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidheiny, Ernst I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss industrialists and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Heerbrugg
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1935
Place of death Sinai Peninsula