Giovanni Stucky

Monument bust for Giovanni Stucky in the Molino Stucky building complex

Giovanni Stucky (born May 27, 1843 in Venice ; † May 21, 1910 ibid) was a Swiss entrepreneur in Venice.

Stucky was the son of the mill owner Hans Stucky from Münsingen in the canton of Bern , who had lived in Italy since 1837 and was based in Venice from 1841 and then in Mogliano (Veneto) . From 1859 Giovanni Stucky continued his education in Vienna and Switzerland, from 1865 he ran his own mill in Mogliano (Veneto), which he modernized based on Hungarian models. The successful young entrepreneur married Antonietta von Kupferschein in 1867. Giovanni Stucky's company expanded from 1867 to 1880. Stucky leased six mills in the Treviso area , imported Russian grain, and exported flour and pasta.

From 1880 Giovanni Stucky resided in Venice again and from 1884 had the architect Ernst Wullekopf build a large industrial mill on the Giudecca . The historicizing building complex in the brick Gothic style was expanded several times and, after initial rejection, accepted as an industrial landmark. The building known as Molino Stucky is now used as a hotel after being vacant for decades.

In 1908 Giovanni Stucky acquired Palazzo Grassi , which his son Giancarlo Stucky had to give up again in the course of the company's decline.

On May 21, 1910 Giovanni Stucky was murdered with a razor in the hall of the Venice train station by the 35-year-old anarchist Giovanni Bruniera. Bruniera, who had worked intermittently at Stucky's company, had already spent 18 months in prison for threats against the Stucky family. Giovanni Stucky was considered the richest man in Venice around 1900. The imposing blond patriarch of unusual height emerged as a benefactor and promoter of the Biennale d'Arte , carried the honorary title of Cavaliere and shortly before his death received a gold medal for special merits.

literature

Francesco Amendolagine (Ed.): Molino Stucky. Ricerche storiche e ipotesi di restauro. Il cardo, Venice 1995, ISBN 88-8079-050-1 .
Tatiana Bonazza: Gli Stucky di Venezia: profilo di una famiglia imprenditoriale tra Otto e Novecento. 2001 (Padua, University, Tesi di laurea (political science dissertation), 2001).
Lavinia Cavalletti: La dinastia Stucky, 1841-1941. Storia del molino di Venezia e della famiglia. Since Manin a Mussolini. Studio LT2, Venezia 2011, ISBN 978-88-88028-68-2

Individual evidence

↑ This is how a Swiss became the richest Venetian : "Giancarlos Giovanni's first son's last hope for the damage suffered during the war - three of his properties but not the factory had been destroyed - was to be compensated by the Italian state It wasn't, because the payments were reserved for Italians. But like his father and grandfather, he had always remained Swiss. "
↑ On the renovation of Palazzo Grassi cf. Lavini Cavaletti: La dinastia Stucky 1841-1941. Venice 2011, p. 124 ff.

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Stucky - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Helmut Stalder: The miller of Venice. In: Observer . No. 24, 2010.
Robert Schediwy: The rise and fall of the Stuckys - a Central European example of economy and society 2012
Fee Riebeling: Giovanni Stucky, How a Swiss became the richest Venetian In: Swissinfo August 23, 2019
The rise and fall of the Stucky dynasty. The Last Merchant of Venice In: SRF August 25, 2019

personal data
SURNAME	Stucky, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	May 27, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venice
DATE OF DEATH	May 21, 1910
Place of death	Venice

[1] This is how a Swiss became the richest Venetian : "Giancarlos Giovanni's first son's last hope for the damage suffered during the war - three of his properties but not the factory had been destroyed - was to be compensated by the Italian state It wasn't, because the payments were reserved for Italians. But like his father and grandfather, he had always remained Swiss. "

[2] On the renovation of Palazzo Grassi cf. Lavini Cavaletti: La dinastia Stucky 1841-1941. Venice 2011, p. 124 ff.