Fritz Zürcher

Fritz Zürcher, around 1915.

Fritz Zürcher (born March 18, 1845 in Wolfhalden ; † July 13, 1920 in Teufen AR ; entitled to live in Teufen AR) was a Swiss textile entrepreneur and politician from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Fritz Zürcher was born to Pastor Daniel Zürcher and Maria Elisabeth Emilia Lieb in Wolfhalden. In 1879 he married the teacher Hedwig Zuberbühler, a daughter of the optician Johann Jakob Zuberbühler. Zürcher attended the mercantile department of the Trogen Cantonal School and completed a commercial apprenticeship in a small textile export house in St. Gallen . From 1864, Zürcher was the sole employee of the embroidery export company Mösch in Bühler , which he led on an interim basis from 1867 to 1870 after the owner's death at the request of the guardianship authority . From 1870 to 1872 he held a leading position in a St. Gallen export company. In Teufen AR he founded the trading company Zürcher & Egger, white goods manufacturing and export, in 1872. Until 1909 he was their manager. From 1896 to 1902 he was politically active in the Cantonal Council of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . In 1901 he acquired the Sanitas children's hospital in Teufen AR, founded in 1899, which he strongly promoted and financially supported. The Fritz Zürcher Foundation was established in 1921 .

literature

• Peter Holderegger: Entrepreneur in the Appenzellerland. History of industrial entrepreneurship in Appenzell Ausserrhoden from the beginning to the present. Herisau: Schläpfer 1992, ISBN 3-85882-080-6 , p. 208.
• Johannes Diem: Fritz Zürcher in Teufen (1845–1920). [Nekrolog.] In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher 48 (1921), pp. 129–135. Web access via e-periodica.ch

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Fritz Zürcher. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 24, 2014 , accessed April 13, 2020 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Fritz Zürcher Foundation. In: Commercial Register AR. Retrieved April 13, 2020 . 

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