Gottlieb Suhner

Gottlieb Suhner (born November 27, 1842 in Stein , † October 9, 1918 in Küsnacht ; resident in Urnäsch ) was a Swiss entrepreneur from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Gottlieb Suhner was the son of Hans Jakob Suhner, impoverished smallholder , and Anna Barbara Alder. In 1865 Suhner married Johanna Signer, the daughter of Johannes Signer, a master carpenter . He married his second wife Elise Alwine Steiger, daughter of Jonas Steiger, Partikular , in 1902. In 1864 Suhner opened a mechanical workshop for the manufacture of weaving and embroidery machine parts in his father-in-law's house . He made several inventions and operational way to circa 1890 own hand embroidery machines and a Ferggerei . Suhner acquired a wire factory in Basel in 1892 . He moved these to Herisau . After the move, the company switched to electrical cable production . In 1905 he incorporated a rubber factory . Subsequently, Suhner was the founder of the most important industrial company in Ausserrhoden, later Huber & Suhner AG . In order to maintain his entrepreneurial independence, he refused in 1895 to work with his most important customer, the BBC in Baden . Instead, Suhner founded a branch in Brugg in 1896 , which later became the Kabelwerke Brugg AG company and was taken over by his son Otto Suhner in 1898 . Suhner was a pioneer in the construction of workers' apartments in Ausserrhoden. In 1906 he withdrew from the company and handed the business over to his youngest son Bertold Suhner .

literature

• Obituary: In memory of the Appenzell industrialist Mr. Gottlieb Suhner von Urnäsch, in Herisau, 1842–1918. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher, Volume 47/1920, pp. 103-109. Web access via e-periodica.ch.
• Peter Holderegger: Entrepreneurs in Appenzellerland: History of industrial entrepreneurship in Appenzell Ausserrhoden from the beginning to the present. Herisau: Schläpfer 1992, pp. 202-204.
• Thomas Fuchs et al .: History of the Herisau community. Herisau: Appenzeller Verlag 1999, p. 210, p. 229, p. 248 and p. 254.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Gottlieb Suhner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 26, 2011 , accessed May 1, 2020 .

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