Hans Huber (entrepreneur, 1927)

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Hans Huber (born August 24, 1927 in Zug ; † August 5, 2018 in Appenzell ) was a Swiss entrepreneur ( SFS ).

Life

Hans Huber, son of the shoemaker Franz Huber and Josefine born. Moos, grew up in very modest circumstances and completed an apprenticeship as a hardware salesman in the hardware store B. Stadlers Erben from 1943 to 1946 . During his apprenticeship, he learned the principle of «serving comes before earning», which was to accompany him throughout his life. In 1949 he opened a branch of the hardware store in Heerbrugg in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley on behalf of his teacher Anna Stadler . Stadler AG was founded in 1957 . When there were bottlenecks in the procurement of screws in the boom years of the post-war period, he and Josef Stadler founded SFS Presswerk AG for the manufacture of screws in 1960 . In the 1960s he introduced employee participation in the stock corporation and in 1984 profit-sharing for all employees. With an order from the Swiss Federal Administration for the Dassault Mirage III aircraft , he was able to position the company successfully and internationally, initially in France. In 1993, under his leadership, the activities were combined under the umbrella of SFS Holding AG and he moved to the board of directors. In 1999 he left the company as Chairman of the Board of Directors. SFS Group AG employed around 9,500 people worldwide for its fastening technology and supply industry products and achieved sales of 1.6 billion Swiss francs. Until his 90th birthday in 2017, Hans Huber was the main shareholder of SFS Group AG alongside the Stadler family; on this day he gave the shares to children and grandchildren.

In 1997 he founded the Hans Huber Foundation for the promotion of vocational education and training, of which he was Honorary President. From 1975 to 1988 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Heberlein Holding AG in Wattwil and, from 1988, on the Board Committee of Gurit-Heberlein AG. From 1987 to 1997 he was a member of the Bank Council of the Swiss National Bank. From 1990 to 1997 he was President of Sparkasse Berneck. Huber was an anchor shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fisba AG in St. Gallen, a company in the photonics market, for many years. In addition, he and Karl Felix Stürm had been a shareholder and owner of St. Gallen DGS Druckguss Systeme AG since 2014 . He had been the main shareholder of the Schlatter Group since 2007 .

Honors

  • Entrepreneur award "Entrepreneur of the Year" from Ernst & Young (2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "East Swiss industrialist Hans Huber died at the age of 90" on toponline.ch from August 8, 2018
  2. ↑ Hans Huber's obituary notice on trauerportal-ostschweiz.ch from August 8, 2018
  3. ^ A b c Heinrich Spoerry: Hans Huber - "Serving comes before earning". In: www.nzz.ch. August 9, 2018, accessed August 9, 2018 .
  4. ^ The history of the SFS Group, SFS Homepage, accessed on July 25, 2013
  5. ^ "SFS founder and Rheintaler entrepreneur Hans Huber died" , St. Galler Tagblatt dated August 6, 2018
  6. ↑ Obituaries of Hans Huber , NZZ from August 9, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH train
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 2018
Place of death Appenzell