Franziska Dosenbach

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Franziska Dosenbach née Buchmann (* 1832 in Kleinwangen ; † 1917 in Bremgarten ) was a Swiss entrepreneur . She founded the shoe store Dosenbach .

Life

Franziska Buchmann was born in Kleinwangen, but grew up with her stepfather in Bremgarten in Aargau after the early death of her father . In Lisette Ruepp's daughter institute in Sarmenstorf , she received lessons in housekeeping, French, music and straw weaving, among other things.

In 1853 she married the master saddler Kaspar Dosenbach, with whom she had thirteen children between 1858 and 1872. In 1877, Kaspar Dosenbach died of pneumonia within a few days. In 1883 Franziska Dosenbach married the former Swiss Guard officer and hotel manager Louis Wohler, who had courted her before she married Kaspar Dosenbach. From then on he took over the bookkeeping in your company.

Business activity

Franziska Dosenbach gained her first work experience in the Wohler straw industry as a Ferggerin . After her marriage, she worked in her husband's saddlery business. When he went to sturgeon in winter , she ran the business.

In 1865 Franziska Dosenbach began buying factory-made shoes and selling them first in her saddlery shop in Bremgarten, and from 1870 on at major trade fairs and markets. These shoes were cheaper than the custom-made shoes customary at the time and still of good quality. Initially, her goods came mainly from Germany and France, but over time they also came from Swiss suppliers such as Bally and independent shoemakers who supplied her with her weekly production.

After the death of her husband, Franziska Dosenbach sold the saddlery and, supported by her children Robert, Josefine and Johanna, concentrated on the shoe trade. At first she also sold suitcases and knapsacks. She opened her first branch in Baden in 1878 , followed by a branch in Zurich in 1880 on the corner of Oetenbachgasse / Rennweg in the then up-and-coming Bahnhofsviertel, which was run by her eldest daughter Johanna. The establishment of the Zurich branch was related to the discontinuation of the Zurich trade fairs and weekly markets.

In order to be able to supply the various branches, a warehouse was built in Bremgarten on Zürcherstrasse in 1890.

In 1915, two years before her death, she had about 100 employees.

literature

  • 100 years of Schuhhaus Dosenbach 1865–1965. C. Dosenbach & Cie., Zurich 1965.
  • Eugen Hermann: A century of Zurich and the development of its companies. JH Müller, Zurich 1946, pp. 198-200.
  • Martina Ramming: Finken-Fränzi . In: Verein Frauenstadtrundgang Zürich (Ed.): Chratz und quer. Seven women's city tours in Zurich. Limmat Verlag, Zurich 2003, pp. 33–37

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 100 years of the Dosenbach shoe store , p. 49.
  2. ↑ a b Ramming, p. 34.
  3. ↑ a b c 100 years of the Dosenbach shoe store , p. 55.
  4. ↑ 100 years of the Dosenbach shoe store , p. 59.
  5. ↑ Hermann, p. 198.
  6. ↑ Ramming, p. 34 f.
  7. ↑ Ramming, p. 35.
  8. ↑ 100 years of the Dosenbach shoe store, p. 61
  9. ↑ Häusler.
  10. ↑ Ramming, p. 36.
personal data
SURNAME Dosenbach, Franziska
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchmann, Franziska (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Small cheeks
DATE OF DEATH 1917
Place of death Bremgarten