Konrad Schrämmli

Konrad Schrämmli (born February 1, 1865 in Gachnang ; † September 11, 1925 in Münsterlingen ; legal resident in Gachnang) was a Swiss trade unionist and politician .

Life

Konrad Schrämmli was a son of Jakob Schrämmli, a dyer , and Anna Koller. In 1890 he married Lisette Zuberbühler, daughter of Johann Ulrich Zuberbühler, farmer .

He attended schools in Gachnang, Baden and Ennetbaden and later became a dyer. 1885 Schrämmli came in Chemnitz by Wilhelm Liebknecht to social democracy and was in Zurich from 1886 to 1887 of the founders of the Grütlivereins industrial district and a dyer union. He lost his job in 1887 because he refused to work overtime . Schrämmli lived in Herisau from 1889 to 1917 and was one of the leading workers' politicians there until 1903 . In 1901 he opened his own laundry and dry clothes cleaning . This went bankrupt in 1904. From 1908 onwards Schrämmli tried in vain to set up his own factory . He eventually died impoverished. From 1895 to 1898 he chaired the Appenzell Workers' Union and from 1896 to 1902 he served as a cantonal councilor .

literature

• Louis Specker: Politics from the succession: the correspondence between Howard Eugster-Züst and Christoph Blumhardt, 1886-1919. Gotthelf-Verlag, Zurich 1984, pp. 88-102.
• Thomas Fuchs: History of the Herisau community. Appenzeller Verlag, Herisau 1999.
• Letters in the Howard Eugster estate in the Appenzell Ausserrhoden Cantonal Library .

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Konrad Schrämmli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 21, 2012 , accessed May 6, 2020 .

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