Georges Henri Ruedin
Georges Henri Ruedin (born March 22, 1895 in Fontainemelon ; † September 16, 1953 in Bern ; called Georgy ) was a Swiss watch manufacturer in the Bernese Jura .
Life
After visiting the Biel Technical Center in 1910, Ruedin became deputy director of the Televox Cooperative in Neuchâtel in 1923 , which manufactured telegraphs and cordless telephones . Two years later he opened a trading office for metals and metalworking machines in the same city.
In 1926 Georges Ruedin founded the watch case factory Jaquat Ruedin & Co together with Albert Jaquat in Bassecourt , which he operated from 1933 under his name Georges Ruedin and from 1951 as Georges Ruedin SA . After founding the company benefited from orders from the paternal Reconvilier Watch Co .
Ruedin was president of the Swiss Association of Metal and Tin Can Manufacturers . During the Second World War he designated the rank of captain of the infantry . From 1928 to 1930 he was a member of the local council for the free-thinking party in Bassecourt . As a friend of history he financed the archaeological excavations of the Burgundian cemetery of Basse Court and was an honorary member of the co-founded by his uncle Jämes Ruedin Jurassic Museum in Delémont .
Georges Henri Ruedin was the son of Georges Louis Ruedin .
literature
- Jean-Daniel Kleisl: Le patronat de la boîte de montre dans la vallée de Delémont: l'exemple de E. Piquerez SA et de G. Ruedin SA à Bassecourt (1926-1982) . Delémont, 1999.
swell
- Family register of the municipality of Le Landeron
- Dictionnaire du Jura
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruedin, Georges Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ruedin, Georgy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss watch manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fontainemelon |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1953 |
| Place of death | Bern |