Jakob Schläpfer

Jakob Schläpfer (born July 14, 1719 in Grub , † April 16, 1779 in Genoa ; resident in Speicher ) was a Swiss textile entrepreneur from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Jakob Schläpfer was a son of Michael Schläpfer, farmer , community Captain and national ensign, and Katharina Lendenmann. Schläpfer managed the Genoese branch of the Schläpfer brothers' textile trading company . He founded this in the 1740s with his brother Matthias Schläpfer . From 1752 to 1753 he had a department store built in Speicher. In 1756 a finish was added to it. The two brothers, who are inexperienced in the trade, owe their business success above all to Johannes Schläpfer, who is not related to them . After he left in 1765, they had business successes from 1765 to 1768 with business partners Sebastian Honnerlag and Johann Georg Honnerlag . These were her brothers-in-law. After 1768 the company began to decline. Schläpfer ran it alone from 1776 to 1779.

literature

• Peter Holderegger: Entrepreneurs in Appenzellerland: History of industrial entrepreneurship in Appenzell Ausserrhoden from the beginning to the present. Herisau: Schläpfer 1992, p. 49 and p. 92.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Jakob Schläpfer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 10, 2010 , accessed May 11, 2020 .

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