Jakob Signer

Jakob Signer (born September 28, 1835 in Herisau , † February 6, 1915 in Bern ; resident in Stein ) was a Swiss entrepreneur and politician from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Jakob Signer was a son of Johann Jakob Signer, owner of the finish , and Anna Elisabeth Müller. In 1859 he married Kleopha August Scheitlin, daughter of Johann Scheitlin, owner of a bleaching factory in Bruggen . He completed vocational training abroad. In 1856 he joined his father's company. Signer took over the company after 1860, which under his management underwent major modernizations and expansions. His brother-in-law Johann Georg Tanner became Signer's partner in 1872. With Signer's help, his brother-in-law Johann Martin Meyer acquired a finish in Herisau in 1879. His half-brother Albert Signer ran a bleaching plant in Horn that Signer had acquired in 1888. Another brother-in-law, August Welti, owned a spinning mill near Bischofszell . From 1862 to 1867 Signer was a councilor. He served as a community judge from 1867 to 1871. From 1871 to 1880 he was a member of the Ausserrhoder Grand Council . He held the military degree of lieutenant colonel .

literature

• Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Signer. (Obituary). In: Appenzeller Zeitung of February 6, 1915, vol. 88, no. 31, p. 2.
• Peter Holderegger: Entrepreneurs in Appenzellerland: History of industrial entrepreneurship in Appenzell Ausserrhoden from the beginning to the present. Herisau: Schläpfer 1992, especially p. 197.

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Jakob Signer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 25, 2011 , accessed May 1, 2020 .

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