Gustav Adolf Bühler

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Adolf Bühler junior , actually Gustav Adolf Bühler (born October 10, 1869 in Henau ; † April 19, 1939 ibid) was a Swiss entrepreneur from the Bühler family and the St. Gallen Cantonal Council ( FDP ). He was the managing director and co-owner of the Bühler brothers , today's Bühler AG .

biography

Adolf Bühler jun. was born in 1869 as the first son of five sons of Adolf Bühler senior and Maria Seline Naef. In 1893 he joined the management team and after Adolf senior's death took over. the group management. Adolf Bühler jun. 1898–1906 was an FDP canton councilor, he was also a member of the municipal council and the Protestant church council of Henau, today Uzwil. He married Alice Forter, the daughter of the banker Adolf Forter . Her children included Robert Adolf Bühler and Max René Bühler .

The philosophy of Adolf Bühler sen. was continued, employee apartments were opened in 1915 and the first company canteen in Switzerland was opened in 1918 under the leadership of the Swiss Soldiers' Association ; it was the cornerstone of business catering for today's SV Group , and Bühler also created one of the first apprentice workshops. But architecturally it stood out from the senior. Adolf Sr. built the factories appropriately, Adolf jun. on the other hand, he got to know the future architect Otto Hausthard and had the company buildings and the residential buildings built by the offices Pflegehard and Haefeli . His home, Landhaus Sonnenhügel , today Villa Tasso , was renovated by them.

The intensive collaboration ended around 1911, the newer buildings and rooms were designed by Robert Maillart . In 1912 Adolf jun. from the company Mathias Naef den Bettenauer Weiher , in 1927 he sold it to the Bühler brothers. When he died in 1939, the Bühler brothers employed around 2,800 people.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Müller: Adolf Bühler No. 1. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 30, 2003 , accessed September 3, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b NZZ am Sonntag: No bread without Bühler , April 15, 2012, p. 38ff
  3. ↑ a b c d Daniel A. Walser: Pflegehard & Haefeli. Buildings for the Bühler brothers in Uzwil. An identity for a builder. (PDF; 18.4 MB), accessed on August 20, 2012
  4. ↑ a b c Peter Müller: Adolf Bühler No. 2. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 8, 2004 , accessed September 3, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Industriekultur Nordostschweiz, issue 56, May 2009: Bühler Uzwil: a technology group ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 369 kB), page 3, accessed on September 3, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sgti.ch
  6. ^ SV Foundation: Milestones ( memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 19, 2012
  7. ^ Paul Gämperli: Bettenau  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 130 kB), chronicle@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.jonschwil.ch  
personal data
SURNAME Bühler, Gustav Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bühler, Adolf junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur and Cantonal Council (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Henau
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1939
Place of death Henau