Oscar Neher

Oscar Neher (born August 17, 1862 in Neuhausen am Rheinfall ; † June 15, 1944 Maienfeld ) was a Swiss industrialist.

Oscar Neher was the son of Emma Moser and Johann Georg Moser-Neher and the grandson of Heinrich Moser and Johann Georg Neher .

After graduating from high school , Oscar Neher trained as a farmer and was then estate manager in Egypt , Silesia and Western Switzerland. After studying chemistry at the University of Halle , he was involved in the grinding of the Plons blast furnace in Mels near Sargans, which his grandfather Johann Georg Neher had built and which has been in the family since then.

In connection with an agricultural enterprise, he founded the starch factory "Oscar Neher & Co.". After incorporating an electrochemical company, the company began producing bleaching agents for the soap and textile industry from 1904.

Around 1900 Oscar Neher had the restoration of the iron mine on Gonzen checked, in 1912 he again acquired a mining license and in 1919 founded Eisenbergwerk Gonzen AG together with Gebr. Sulzer AG and Georg Fischer AG . After the facilities had been modernized again, dismantling on Gonzen was resumed in 1920. Oscar Neher was President and Delegate of the Board of Directors at this company from 1919 to 1941.

His sister Charlotte Neher was married to the industrialist Gustave Naville from 1874 .

literature

• Swiss Industrial Library (Ed.): In memoriam. Biographical lexicon of deceased Swiss people. Vol. 1, Zurich 1947, 567 pp.
• Paul Hugger and Willfried Epprecht: The Gonzen: 2000 years of mining - the book of memories. Eisenbergwerk Gonzen AG, Sargans 1991. 222 pp.
• Eisenbergwerk Gonzen AG (Ed.), Johannes Huber (Ed.): Gonzen - The mountain and its iron. NZZ Libro, Zurich 2010. 304 pp.

Web link

• Peter Müller: Neher, Oscar. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .