Ernst Ulrich Buff

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Ernst Ulrich Buff (born April 17, 1873 in Sitterdorf ; † April 4, 1931 in Hansa-Humboldt ( Brazil )) was a Swiss merchant and life reformer .

Life

Ernst Ulrich Buff trained as an embroidery businessman and was a partner in his father's company from 1899 to 1908, which he took over in 1915. The company was liquidated from 1922 to 1928 . From 1905 to 1908 he was a councilor in Herisau .

In 1907/1908 he had the Villa Nieschberg (also Villa Buff ) built in Herisau by the Cologne architect H. Grunwald as a life-reforming building with a tower with a windmill and terraces for sun and air baths. At that time he was in contact with the Ticino Monte Verità movement. In the 1930s it was run as a naturopathic institute. Since 1972 the building has housed the reintegration home for drug-endangered people, Best Hope . In the course of repairs in 1977 the tower was cut by about half.

Buff also founded the worry-free school of life . The founding of the Herisau Naturopathic Association and the Herisau Association for People's Welfare can also be traced back to his initiatives.

His estate is in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden State Archives.

publication

  • Universal law. Lecture from the "Carefree Life School" Wilen-Herisau . "4 L" shipping, 1908
  • Live Your Body and Mind Healthy , 1909.

literature

  • Detlef Stender: Industrial culture on Lake Constance. A guide to buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries . Stadler, 1992
  • Peter Witschi: Appenzeller all over the world. History of emigration and life fates . Schläpfer, 1994, p. 295 ff.
  • Thomas Fuchs: From atheist to barefoot savior , in: Herisau. History of the community of Herisau , Herisau 1999, p. 259.
  • Iris Blum: 'Learn to live long without suffering' - The life reformer Ernst Ulrich Buff from Eastern Switzerland as a contemporary of Max Bircher Benner , in: Lebendige Kraft. Max Bircher-Benner and his sanatorium in a historical context , Baden 2010, pp. 121–133.
  • Gerold Huber: Barefödlebuff and his health stamp , in: Gossauer Nachrichten / Herisauer Nachrichten / St.Galler Nachrichten , June 13, 2013, p. 21.
  • Corina Hugentobler: Stories from the Nieschberg .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Appenzellische Jahrbücher , 106th issue, 1978, p. 122.
personal data
SURNAME Buff, Ernst Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss merchant and life reformer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Sitterdorf
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1931
Place of death Hansa-Humboldt ( Brazil )