Friedrich Albert Wenner

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Friedrich Albert Wenner , also Federico Alberto Wenner , (born January 17, 1812 in St. Gallen , † August 29, 1882 in Salerno ) was a major Swiss industrialist. He was an important industrial pioneer in the field of textile production in southern Italy .

Life

Friedrich Albert Wenner completed a commercial apprenticeship at the muslin trading house Mittelholzer & Züblin in St. Gallen. His apprenticeship gave him a job at David Vonwiller 's cotton trading company (Vonwiller & C) in Naples , where he made his career as a manager in a few years.

Together with Johann Konrad Schläpfer (1798-1852) and with the help of German and English investors, he founded his own textile company in Salerno in 1834 with the name Schläpfer, Wenner & C. The company included a dye works and a calico printing works in Salerno, as well as a weaving mill in Angri . In 1839 he traveled to England to familiarize himself with the latest technologies in cotton production. For example roller printing and mechanical looms . In the years 1866/67 the company was expanded to include a spinning mill and other mechanical weaving mills in Salerno. The cotton fabrics were initially intended for export and later also for the domestic market. The company was very successful and had several thousand employees.

Friedrich Albert Wenner married Rosalie Sulzberger (1815–1880) in 1834.

In October 1865 one of his sons and three employees of his company were kidnapped by brigands and detained for four months. Her release had to pay 200,000 lire (over 1 million Swiss francs today ). The news of this kidnapping caused great media attention abroad too. B. in the German magazine Die Gartenlaube (1866) under the title "Four months under the brigands".

After several years of illness, Friedrich Albert Wenner died in Salerno on August 29, 1882. His son Robert Wenner took over the management of the company.

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  1. ↑ W 054/75 Friedrich Albert and Rosalie Wenner-Sulzberger: Files, 1812-1882 (partial inventory) on staatsarchiv.sg.ch
  2. ↑ Eastern Swiss industrial pioneers in southern Italy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , St. Gallen State Archives, 2004@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sg.ch  
  3. ↑ The gazebo. Issue 20, pp. 311-315. Ernst Keil's successor, Leipzig 1866, page 311. Digital full-text edition in Wikisource
personal data
SURNAME Wenner, Friedrich Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenner, Federico Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cotton industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1882
Place of death Salerno