Friedrich Imhoof

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Friedrich Ludwig Imhoof-Hotze

Friedrich Ludwig Imhoof-Hotze (born August 11, 1807 in Winterthur ; † December 21, 1893 there ) was a Swiss textile exporter.

family

Friedrich Imhoof was the son of the Winterthur cloth and spices merchant Friedrich Samuel Imhoof (1780-1840) and Regula Imhoof (1772-1835). His paternal grandparents were Abraham David (1749–1796), who was a Gürtler and a member of the 32 council and choir court in Burgdorf , and Marianne Bertschinger. His mother was a widow of Hans Heinrich Sulzer († 1805). Her parents were the Zurich grocer and captain Hans Heinrich Fäsi (1735–1794) and Antoinette Lisette Voegeli.

Imhoof married Sophie Louise Hotze (1813–1867) in Richterswil in 1833 . She was the daughter of the Richterswil doctor Johann Heinrich Hotze (1779–1866) and Anna Maria Blumer. The maternal grandfather was Johannes Hotze , a great-uncle of Friedrich von Hotze . Imhoff's marriage resulted in four sons and a daughter.

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Imhoof received commercial training in his father's company, Imhoof, Hirtzel & Co, and then traveled through Italy via Trieste and Livorno . He then worked in Constantinople in the trading house of the German-Hungarian Hulka , where he established business contacts that laid the foundation for his later textile business. In 1832 he went back to Winterthur and worked again in his father's company, which was now called Imhoof & Forrer . He bought hand-woven cotton cloths in eastern Switzerland and, according to the ideas of a Turkish clientele, gave them to Glarus and Toggenburg for dyeing . He then sold the goods in Constantinople and other trading metropolises in the eastern Mediterranean. He had his export goods, in particular yasmas (veils), printed mouchoirs , batiks and similar items produced in Vienna . He was one of the first Swiss to develop such products and created his own designs for them.

Imhoof led his stuff printing company , which was located in the canton of Glarus , to an economic boom. During his prime, which ranged from around 1835 to 1848, he held shares in the Glarus company, Blumer & Tschudi, and had branches and representations in London , Marseille , Milan , Genoa , Livorno , Venice , Constantinople, Smyrna and Beirut . After that, the business in the Levant suffered from imitators, so that the entrepreneur was active in East India, Singapore and Java from 1853 . He ran a large colored weaving mill and, in the early days, factories in Toggenburg. In 1852 he acquired the Fischingen monastery from the government of the canton of Thurgau , where he wanted to run a colored weaving mill. He separated from the property in 1874 and acquired shares in newly built weaving mills in Freienstein .

Imhoof went partially blind at the age of 39 and completely blinded seven years later. As a managing director with an exceptionally good memory, he dictated and had people read to him. When he realized in 1856 that his son Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer would no longer run the business and that his operations had passed their zenith, he had planned to discontinue business activities until 1876.

Imhoof was one of Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer's close friends and was considered an important art patron in Winterthur. He donated large sums for musicians and painters, including Rudolf Koller and Adolf Stäbli , and for many charitable works. One of the structures he financed was the staircase of the Winterthur town hall . He had his residence in the Villa Bühl , which today includes a private school.

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  1. ↑ Hans Rudolf Schmid:  Imhoof, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 155 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Friedrich Ludwig (Imhoof) Imhoof-Hotze (1807-1893) | WikiTree FREE Family Tree. Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hans Rudolf Schmid:  Imhoof, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 155 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Hans Rudolf Schmid:  Imhoof, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 155 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Hans Rudolf Schmid:  Imhoof, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 155 f. ( Digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Hans Rudolf Schmid:  Imhoof, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 156 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Hans Rudolf Schmid:  Imhoof, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 156 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Imhoof, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich Ludwig Imhoof-Hotze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss textile export trader
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1893
Place of death Winterthur