Josef Stadelmann

Josef Stadelmann, St. Gallen

Josef Stadelmann (born September 29, 1885 in St. Gallen ; † January 23, 1969 there ) was a Swiss bank director.

Life

Josef Stadelmann grew up in the Heiligkreuz district of the city of St. Gallen. He attended the Catholic Cantonal Secondary School in St. Gallen, then completed a bank apprenticeship at Brettauer & Co and began his career at the cooperative bank in St. Gallen. There he got to know the Raiffeisenkassen , which had started their activities in several villages in Switzerland. The cooperative bank took care of the bookkeeping and, in some cases, the auditing for such cash registers . The Raiffeisenkassen merged into an association and in 1912 hired Stadelmann as the association's first general secretary and general auditor. Over the next 40 years, Stadelmann, as the first director of the Association of Swiss Loan Funds, built up an efficient central organization for the institutes in Switzerland that have been called Raiffeisenkassen again since 1974 and are now the third largest bank in Switzerland as a whole .

Stadelmann married Rosa Wiesli in 1922. The marriage remained childless. Instead, the Stadelmanns raised their foster children Emil and Annemarie Huber, who had lost their parents very early. The composer Paul Huber as another brother grew up with another foster family in Toggenburg .

Act

Stadelmann started working for the Raiffeisenkassen from home in 1912 because the association did not yet have any infrastructure in St. Gallen. His sister Emma was the only helper at the time to look after the 154 tills. The banking activity was made more difficult by Stadelmann's active service during the First World War . From 1918 office space in the city of St. Gallen could be moved and the team expanded.

Sister Emma Stadelmann married Johann Heuberger, who also worked for the Raiffeisen association secretariat in St. Gallen from 1917 and was director of the auditing department from 1934.

In the following 40 years, Stadelmann established the association's head office as director, with the functions of a money equalization office, giro office , securing liquidity, investing free funds and auditing member funds.

Stadelmann set up a separate pension fund for the association members.

When he retired in 1953, Stadelmann managed 969 local Raiffeisenkassen with only 67 employees in the association's headquarters, which are still organized as cooperatives.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Ruedi Keel: Former bank director Josef Stadelmann. Obituary in: Die Ostschweiz , January 25, 1969
2. ^ ^{A b c} Sibylle Obrecht: Raiffeisen: People, Money, Stories. Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld, 2000