Julius Buehrer

Julius Bührer (born November 12, 1890 in Hofen SH ; † June 19, 1946 in Schaffhausen ) was a Swiss lawyer and industrialist. He was director of the Georg Fischer works in Schaffhausen and as a politician FDP canton councilor in the Grand Council of Schaffhausen and a member of the Swiss Council of States . He was a general staff officer in the Swiss Army .

biography

Julius Bührer was the eldest son of the factory director Jakob Bührer and his wife Elise. He attended schools in Trasadingen , the secondary school in Neunkirch and the canton school in Schaffhausen , where he joined the Scaphusia grammar school and graduated in 1910 with the Matura . From 1910 he studied law and economics at the University of Lausanne , the University of Zurich and the University of Berlin . He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. In Zurich Bührer was president of the student corporation association.

In 1916 Julius Bührer entered the service of + GF + Schaffhausen and initially received training in various departments "from the bottom up". As early as 1917 he was the executive secretary, in 1921 deputy director and member of the management team and from 1923 he was named "director". The international malleable iron industry, "International Malleable Tube Fittings Association", founded in 1935 , elected Julius Bührer as its chairman. He took up this post in 1936. From 1938 Julius Bührer was a delegate of the + GF + board of directors. He was popular with the workforce; during his time as director there were no social conflicts in the company. From 1940 Julius Bührer was involved in political offices; first he was a cantonal councilor in Schaffhausen, from 1943 he was also a councilor in Bern. Between 1939 and 1942 he was a general staff officer of the Border Brigade 6. Bühler's business contacts with the director of the Singen + GF + plant, Alfred Horstmann, who belonged to the NSDAP , led during the war years on the part of the left-wing Swiss press, the Basler Vorwärts and the Schaffhausen “Arbeiter -Zeitung ", on the assumption that Bührer was" German-friendly ". On the basis of the available sources, however, there can only be evidence that Bührer was concerned about the German property of + GF + and spoke out against the discontinuation of commercial transactions with Germany. Julius Bührer died of heart failure in 1946 at the age of only 55.

The German city of Singen honored him with the renaming of the Fabrikstrasse, which led past the + GF + -Fischer works, to Julius-Bührer-Strasse , because they were grateful to him for “his concern and his efforts to rebuild” the Singen works after the war.

An important street in Singen : on Julius-Bührer-Straße there are notaries' offices, the police, the entrance gates of Maggi and + GF + . In the background the Hohentwiel

Publications

The change of state conceptions under the influence of economics and sociology Dissertation. Greifswald 1917.

literature

Hans Ulrich Wipf: Dr. Julius Bührer - committed business manager and purposeful business designer. In: Georg Fischer AG 1930–1945. Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-0340-0501-6 , pp. 45–57.
Eduard Joos: Julius Bührer Council of States, + GF + -Director, Colonel of the General Staff. In: Schaffhausen Biographies - Part Five. Published by the Historical Association of the Canton of Schaffhausen. Schaffhausen 1991, ISSN 0259-3599 , pp. 45-50.

Web links

Eduard Joos: Bührer, Julius. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Eduard Joos: Julius Bührer, Schaffhausen City Archives (PDF)
Julius Bührer on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals )

Individual evidence

↑ Eduard Joos, see bibliography, pp. 45–46, as well as Hans Ulrich Wipf, see bibliography, note 104, p. 567. Tellingly , Bührer chose “ Merkur ” as the name of Cerevis .

↑ ^a ^b Eduard Joos, see bibliography, p. 46

↑ Hans Ulrich Wipf, see bibliography, p. 47

↑ Hans Ulrich Wipf, see bibliography, p. 48

↑ Hans Ulrich Wipf, see bibliography, p. 49 and note 121, p. 568

↑ Hans Ulrich Wipf, see bibliography, pp. 54–57

^ Resolution of the Singen Municipal Council of July 2, 1946

^ Letter from the works council of the AG der Eisen- und Stahlwerke Singen-Hohentwiel dated June 21, 1946 to the general management of the AG der Eisen- & Stahlwerke Schaffhausen; and a letter from the mayor of the city of Singen (Hohentwiel) dated June 21, 1946 to Eisen und Stahlwerke AG Singen / Htwl., both in the archive of the iron library in Schlatt TG .

personal data
SURNAME	Buehrer, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	November 12, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hofen SH
DATE OF DEATH	June 19, 1946
Place of death	Schaffhausen

[1] Eduard Joos, see bibliography, pp. 45–46, as well as Hans Ulrich Wipf, see bibliography, note 104, p. 567. Tellingly , Bührer chose “ Merkur ” as the name of Cerevis .

[Jost-2] Eduard Joos, see bibliography, p. 46

[3] Hans Ulrich Wipf, see bibliography, p. 47

[4] Hans Ulrich Wipf, see bibliography, p. 47

[5] Hans Ulrich Wipf, see bibliography, p. 48

[6] Hans Ulrich Wipf, see bibliography, p. 49 and note 121, p. 568

[7] Hans Ulrich Wipf, see bibliography, pp. 54–57

[8] Resolution of the Singen Municipal Council of July 2, 1946

[9] Letter from the works council of the AG der Eisen- und Stahlwerke Singen-Hohentwiel dated June 21, 1946 to the general management of the AG der Eisen- & Stahlwerke Schaffhausen; and a letter from the mayor of the city of Singen (Hohentwiel) dated June 21, 1946 to Eisen und Stahlwerke AG Singen / Htwl., both in the archive of the iron library in Schlatt TG .