Gaudenz Issler

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Gaudenz Issler (born July 12, 1853 in Sertigtal , † October 25, 1942 in Davos ) was a Swiss entrepreneur and politician .

Life

Youth and teaching

After his childhood, when he visited the then usual semi-annual school and helped as a shepherd boy in the family farm in the Sertigtal, he learned the carpenter - and carpentry . Due to his ability and ambition, his employers soon recommended him for further training as a master craftsman . He actively helped with the renovation of his parents' house, the Büdemji . In autumn 1876 he moved to the building trade school in Stuttgart , today the Stuttgart University of Technology , which he left in 1879 with the title of master builder . He had passed a voluntary student project, the design for a summer house, with distinction.

Politics and offices

In 1897 Issler was elected as a deputy to the Grand Council, shortly afterwards he was appointed Grand Council of the Canton of Graubünden, a position he held for 20 years. With the election of Andreas Laely to the Council of States in 1908, he was elected as Landammann of Davos on April 25, 1909, and he also resigned from the management of his construction business; however, he rejected re-election in 1913. He took an active part in the separation of judicial and administrative power. He was a member of the community commission (now the Little Council) and with his technical knowledge he promoted the construction of the railway between Filisur and Landquart-Davos, the water supply (Sertiger spring water cooperative) and the construction of schools and apartments. He was a member and probably a co-founder of the Liberal Party .

Gaudenz Issler was president of the new trade and commerce association in 1896 and one of the first of the five school councilors of the newly founded trade school. In 1900 he gave up the presidium, but he remained on the board of the trade school, which with 138 students was the second largest in the canton. In 1893 he built the hydropower plants with the entrepreneur Barelli, W. Beeli and the machine factory Oerlikon and other shareholders and became a member of the board of directors of EWD Elektrizitätzwerk Davos . In 1903 he was appointed a member of the bank council of Graubündner Kantonalbank , and from 1908 to 1930 a member of the board of directors. He was involved in many other ventures, such as avalanche control, fire brigade, funeral services, peat extraction, Silberberg mine , Surava tuff stone works , real estate, etc. He was the first in the canton of Graubünden to buy a Benz automobile, in 1897, which was owned by Wolfgang -Could not conquer the pass and had to be towed with two horses. From 1900 to 1925 there was a car ban in the entire canton of Graubünden, but whether there is a connection has not been passed down.

Gaudenz Issler had a decisive influence on the development of the up-and-coming Davos in the 19th century; numerous buildings originate from his planning, most of them also their construction. For example the school house, the English Church, the Villa Letta, Pension Thümmler, the Pro Juventute sanatorium , St. Johann Church and much more. The station buildings of the railway line between Chur and Thusis of the Rhaetian Railway also came from his chalet factory . From 1906 to 1914 Rudolf Gaberel worked as a design architect.

Gaudenz Issler built his house (1887) on the Alberti , which is now a hotel.

family

Gaudenz Issler was the son of Sebastian Issler (1826–1912). He was married to Margareth Accola; together they had the children Georg Issler (1888–1911; qualified structural draftsman), Lydia Issler-Affolter (* 1889), Margreth Issler (1892–1915), Annie Issler (* 1894) and Maria Perpetua Issler-Domenig (1897–1939 ; qualified architect).

literature

  • Leni Henderson-Affolter: Gaudenz Issler (1853–1942), master builder and land manager. A Davos image of life . Self-published, Davos 1979.
  • Albina Cereghetti: Issler, Gaudenz . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 291

Individual evidence

  1. Rudolf Gaberel. In: arch INFORM .
  2. Anna Meseure (Ed.), Martin Tschanz (Ed.), Wilfried Wang (Ed.), Switzerland - Architecture in the 20th Century , Volume 5, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, (Mitw.) Prestel, 1998, ISBN 3791320157 .