Johann Jakob Staub (entrepreneur)

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Johann Jakob Staub (Sust Horgen local museum)

Johann Jakob Staub (born December 18, 1803 in Horgen ; † December 27, 1888 there ) was a Swiss entrepreneur . He introduced jacquard weaving in Switzerland and opened the first silk weaving school in the canton of Zurich in 1855.

Life

Staub grew up in Horgen as the son of the linen weaver Johannes Staub and the Emerentiana born Brunner. The dust came from an old family of weavers. From 1824 to 1825 he trained as a silk weaver in Lyon , where he received an introduction to the new jacquard loom . On his return to Horgen, he set up the first five jacquard chairs in his father's business and produced tailored gilets and duvets in silk, wool and cotton. In 1827 he married Regula Abegg, the daughter of Hans Jakob, carpenter and bleacher, and founder of the Abegg brothers .

With his brother-in-law Hans Heinrich Abegg (1805–1874), a silk manufacturer in Obermeilen, he founded the Abegg & Staub collective company in 1830 and expanded the factory to 28 chairs. In order to be able to manufacture the additional jacquard machines yourself, the old linen weaving cellar was converted into a mechanical workshop. A card punching machine (lissage) for the mechanical production of the sample cardboard was also developed there. With the financial help of a Zurich silk dealer as a limited partner , a new factory with 130 chairs was built on Burghalden in 1835, which became the largest jacquard weaving mill in Switzerland.

Tableaux made of silk, exhibition in New York in 1853 (Sust Horgen local museum)

Although the Abegg & Staub company was a leader in the manufacture of façonné fabrics ( jacquard pattern ) in Switzerland, it struggled to compete with the Lyon rivals and business success fell short of expectations. In 1840 his brother-in-law Abegg left the company. The factory on Burghalden was acquired by the silk weaving mill Baumann & Streuli in 1880 and one floor increased.

After giving up silk weaving, Staub opened the first weaving school in the Canton of Zurich in Horgen in 1855. During a three-year course, students were thoroughly introduced to both theory and practice. He ran his private weaving school until 1864, when due to the American Civil War (1861–1865) the silk industry suffered an economic downturn and the students stayed away.

Staub was a local councilor in Horgen for many years. Dust had the rank of colonel in the militia army. He was the founder of the Horgen Cadet Corps and its president for the first nine years. He was made an honorary member by the Zurich Silk Industry Society.

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Dust was ahead of its time with his work. The progressive attempts of the Abegg & Staub company at the beginning of the 1860s with the production of plush (peluche) and velvet (velvet) as a double weave, instead of the old method of ruth cut (braiding), had to be abandoned at that time due to a lack of the necessary auxiliary industries. At the beginning of the 1950s, Staub was able to convince the factory owner Caspar Honegger in Rüti to make the first attempts at mechanical silk weaving. Dust was also a pioneer with his private weaving school. In 1881, 20 years later, the public silk weaving school in Zurich was founded.

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  • From the old Zurich silk industry . Historical review of the development of the silk industry in the canton of Zurich. On behalf of the supervisory commission of the weaving school in Zurich, 1882. Communications on the textile industry: Swiss specialist publication for the entire textile industry. Volume 11, 1904: Issue 3 [3] , Issue 4 [4] , Issue 7 [5] , Issue 11 [6]

literature

  • Hermann Wartmann:  Dust, Johann Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 507 f.
  • Paul Kläui: History of the community of Horgen . Horgen 1952, pages 517-522.
  • Ad. Bürkli-Meyer: History of the Zurich silk industry from the end of the XIII. Century to modern times . Pages 214-216. The New Zurich Times. Year 1888, No. 364, second sheet.

Web links

Commons : Abegg & Staub  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the former «Little Lyon». Communications about the textile industry: Swiss specialist publication for the entire textile industry. Volume 61, 1954, Issue 6. [1]
  2. ↑ Paul Kläui : History of the community Horgen . Horgen 1952.
  3. ↑ Horgen year Issue 1985: Community life in Horgen 1952-1985 and 150 years Cadets [2]
personal data
SURNAME Staub, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Horgen
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1888
Place of death Horgen