Franz Carl Weber (entrepreneur)
Franz Philipp Karl Friedrich Weber (born May 24, 1855 in Schwarzenbach am Wald , Upper Franconia , Bavaria , † November 8, 1948 in Zurich ), Protestant , resident in Zurich from 1898, was a Swiss entrepreneur of German origin. He was the founder of the toy shop Franz Carl Weber .
Life
Franz Carl Weber, son of pastor Amadeus Friedrich Weber and Maria Friederike née Riessner, completed a commercial apprenticeship in the toy export company Ullmann & Engelmann in Nuremberg . After the death of his parents, he left his hometown of Fürth and moved to Zurich in 1879, where he was employed as a traveler at the Finsler drugstore in Meiershof until 1881 .
In the same year Franz Carl Weber founded the company Franz Carl Weber Spielwaren with his brother Konrad and opened the toy shop on Bahnhofstrasse, which still exists today. From 1886 he sent representatives on trips with sample collections. In the Christmas season of 1891 a brochure was published for the first time , which he later expanded into a catalog and had well-known artists illustrated. In 1917 Weber set up a first branch in Geneva , and in 1925 a second in Bern .
Franz Carl Weber, who was granted citizenship in Zurich in 1898 , retired in 1922 after the death of his wife Emilie, née Rebmann, from the company that had been converted into a family stock company in 1919. He died in Zurich in 1948 at the age of 94.
literature
- Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 352, 353.
- Felix Frick: Franz Carl Weber: Trailblazer for European toy retailers, In: Volume 37 of Swiss pioneers in business and technology, Association for Economic History Studies, 1983
- Laura M. Knüsli: 100 years of Swiss toy manufacturing: for the 125th anniversary of the Franz Carl Weber company, Chronos Verlag, 2006 ISBN 3-034-00843-0 . Pages 17–28.
Web links
- Christian Baertschi: Weber, Franz Carl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Biographical data on Franz Carl Weber in www.wiswin.nl; Retrieved May 1, 2012
- Franz Carl Weber - history and tradition on the website of Franz Carl Weber
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Franz Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weber, Franz Philipp Karl Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwarzenbach am Wald , Upper Franconia , Bavaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1948 |
| Place of death | Zurich |