Heinrich Brunner (entrepreneur)

Heinrich Brunner (born November 15, 1773 in Glarus ; † June 11, 1857 there ) was a Swiss entrepreneur and liberal politician .

Life

Heinrich Brunner was born on November 15, 1773 as the son of the locksmith Kaspar Brunner in Glarus. First he learned the job of a stuff printer . He then continued his education in Geneva .

Heinrich Brunner, who was married twice, died on June 11, 1857 in Glarus. He was the father of Jost Brunner .

Entrepreneurial activity

In 1822 he acquired the textile printing company founded by his brother Hans Peter . As a commercial manager, he recruited skilled colorists and had so-called yasmak fabrics, which were processed into face veils , produced for the Turkish market . From the 1840s onwards, his printing company developed into one of the largest in the country. As a wealthy entrepreneur from Glarus, he supported charitable institutions such as poor institutions , schools and savings funds , and in 1855 he set up a scholarship fund .

Political activity

Brunner began as a clerk in the administrative chamber of the Helvetian canton of Linth and from 1803 became the private secretary of the Landammann . He then acted as a Glarner Landschreiber from 1808 to 1825 and as a criminal judge from 1837 to 1841.

literature

• Hermann Wartmann:  Brunner, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 446 f.
• State archive of the Canton of Glarus Family archive of land clerk Heinrich Brunner (1773-1857), Glarus, and his descendants
• Adolf Jenny-Trümpy Commerce and Industry of the Canton of Glarus 2 , 1902, pp. 299–301
• Silvia Oberhänsli The Glarus Entrepreneurs in the 19th Century , 1982, v. a. P. 43

Web links

• Veronika Feller-Vest : Heinrich Brunner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 21, 2015 .
• Literature about Heinrich Brunner on unibas.ch