Florian Stoppany

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Florian Stoppany and his wife Betty with their children
Hotel Pontresina (today Sporthotel Pontresina ). On the right the building from 1881, on the left the extension from 1895
Grave of Florian Stoppany and his wife in the Pontresina cemetery

Florian Stoppany (born February 6, 1842 in Berlin ; † January 26, 1901 in Pontresina ) was a Swiss hotelier.

Life

Florian Stoppany came from the confectioner family Stupan or Stuppaun from Pontresina, who changed their Rhaeto-Romanic family name to Stuppano in Italy and to Stoppany in France . The wealth they had acquired enabled the family to build Chesa Stuppaun, today's Chesa Campell, on the main street of Pontresina in 1742.

Giachem Bunom Stoppany (1800–1867), Florian Stoppany's father, moved to Berlin. As a partner of Johann Stehely from Silvaplana, he ran the Café Stehely near the Gendarmenmarkt , where the poets of Young Germany frequented. In addition, he also owned shares in the Café Josty An der Stechbahn near Berlin Palace through his wife Carolina Josty (1805–1876), whom he had married in 1833 . Florian had two older sisters, Ursina Henriette, born in 1835, and Carolina, born in 1837.

After finishing his working life, Giachem Bunom Stoppany returned to Pontresina in 1862/63 with his wife and Ursina Henriette. Carolina married the French teacher Adolphe Goulbier in 1862 and stayed in Berlin, while Florian, after finishing school, worked according to the tradition of confectioners in various companies of Graubünden families in several European cities.

At the beginning of the 1870s he returned to Pontresina and used the business knowledge he had acquired in the emerging tourism. His cousin, the hotelier Florian Zambail, opened the Hotel Roseg in 1870 . Here he became a co-owner and director for many years. The Stoppany and Zambail families were closely intertwined. Florian's aunt Chiatarina Stoppany had married Barnard Zambail, Florian Zambail's father, in 1813. In 1867, when Florian Stoppany's older sister Ursina Henriette married her cousin Bernhard Zambail, Florian Zambail's brother, this connection strengthened. This was also reflected in the sale of Chesa Stuppaun in 1867 by the Stoppany heirs to the Zambail family after the death of Florian's father Giachem Buonom Stoppany.

In 1871 he married Betty Stiffler, whose family was also involved in the emerging tourism in Pontresina with the Hotel Steinbock and Maison Stiffler , a restaurant with 25 guest beds. Together they had six children, the sons Johann (1872) and Florian (1878) and the daughters Lina (1874), Verena (1875), Ursina (1876) and Betty (1882).

His inheritance, which came to him with the death of his mother Carolina in 1876, provided him with enough capital to run his own business. The opportunity arose when his brother-in-law Caspar Stiffler died unexpectedly on December 17, 1878, at the age of only 35. Caspar Stiffler's sons were too young to take over the business and so Florian Stoppany bought Maison Stiffler before March 1879. Stoppany's wife Betty and her sister Christina Nadig-Stiffler had already run the business as the Stiffler sisters for several years. Through the Ragaz brothers , he had the guesthouse expanded into the Hotel Pontresina & Post in 1881 . The success of the hotel allowed it to expand to its present size for a second time in 1895.

His wife Betty died on February 11, 1896, Florian Stoppany followed her on January 26, 1901. They are buried together in the cemetery of the Sta. Maria in Pontresina.

literature

  • Obituary by Florian Stoppany in Engadin Express, illustrated tourist paper , January 31, 1901, no. 16., p. 213.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dolf Kaiser: Almost a people of confectioners? : Bündner confectioners, cafetiers and hoteliers in European countries up to World War I; an economic history contribution. Neue Zürcher Zeitung Zürich 1985 ISBN 3-85823-217-3 p. 100.
  2. ↑ a b Obituary of Florian Stoppany in Engadin Express, illustrated tourist paper , January 31, 1901, no. 16. p. 213.
  3. ↑ JM Ludwig: Pontresina and its surroundings. , Jost & Albin Chur 1878 p. 94.
  4. ↑ M [ichael] Caviezel: The Upper Engadine. A guide on walks, large and small tours. , Gengel Chur 1876 p. 136.
  5. ↑ in JM Ludwigs Pontresina and its neighborhood. Translated by FS Reilly. , Edward Stanford, London 1879 on page 129 Stoppany is already listed as the new owner. The editorial deadline was March 1879.
personal data
SURNAME Stoppany, Florian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stoppani, Florian; Stupaun, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss hotelier
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1901
Place of death Pontresina