Oskar Scheitlin

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Oskar Scheitlin (born February 13, 1861 in St. Gallen ; † July 25, 1924 in Burgdorf BE ) was a Swiss entrepreneur.

Life

Oskar Sebastian Scheitlin grew up in the city of St. Gallen, where the textile industry has played an important role since the 16th century. The progenitor Anton Scheitlin (1566–1629) was a bleaching master as well as 24 of his descendants in 10 successive generations.

Scheitlin completed an apprenticeship at the linen weaving mill Espinard in Lyon , France. He then worked as a textile merchant in Switzerland and Italy. In the early 1880s he worked for the flax trading company Fankhauser in Burgdorf, Canton Bern, which had been run by his brother-in-law Gottlieb Kappeler and his brother since 1966. In 1897 Scheitlin took over the Fankhauser company together with his widowed sister, which was continued as Scheitlin & Cie.

The trading company Scheitlin & Cie entered the production of textiles through takeovers. In 1904 the company merged with the company Röthlisberger & Cie in Worb and the artificial bleaching company Dr. Stucki also in Worb. The Röthlisberger company had already put mechanical looms into operation for linen production in 1892. In addition, the Rüderswil AG spinning and weaving mill in Rüderswil in the Emmental was taken over in 1906 . From 1913 the merged companies were called United Linen Weaving Worb & Scheitlin . In addition to the linen weaving, the subsequent bleaching in the Farb building and on the surrounding area in Worb was an important part of the production of these textiles.

From 1910 until his death in 1924 Scheitlin was President of the Association of Swiss Linen Industry. In 1924 his company made two thirds of the entire Swiss linen export business. The otherwise used building of the corresponding weaving mill on the Farbstrasse in Worb still exists today.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Walter Thut: Scheitlin, Oskar. Historical lexicon of Switzerland
  2. ↑ Scheitlin. In: Bürgerbuch der Stadt St. Gallen , Verlag Huber & Cie, St. Gallen, 1887, pp. 298–315.
  3. ^ Emil Schneiter: Worb - Castle and Village. Bern homeland books. Paul Haupt Publishing House, Bern, 1961.

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SURNAME Scheitlin, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1924
Place of death Burgdorf BE