Jacques Huber-Kudlich
Jacques Huber-Kudlich (* 1851 in Horgen , Switzerland ; † April 16, 1918 in Lugano ) was a Swiss silk industrialist.
Life
Born in Horgen in 1851 , Huber emigrated to America in 1874 and built up the international silk empire "Schwarzenbach, Huber & Co., New York" with the company Robert Schwarzenbach & Co AG from Thalwil . In 1902 he became president of the "Silk Association of America". 1902–1908 Huber had the Villa Seerose built on the lakeshore in Horgen in an Art Nouveau mixture of castle and palazzo.
Huber's widow, Edith Huber-Kudlich (daughter of the Austrian “peasant liberator” and doctor Hans Kudlich ) left a legacy to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1946 , with which the Huber-Kudlich Foundation was established to promote research and teaching.
literature
- 100 years of "water lily". Villa and Park (Horgner yearbook; 2004). Municipal administration, Horgen 2004.
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| SURNAME | Huber-Kudlich, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss silk industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Horgen , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 16, 1918 |
| Place of death | Lugano |