Pauline Zimmerli-Bäurlin
Ida Pauline Zimmerli-Bäurlin (* July 7, 1829 in Aarau ; † May 8, 1914 in Aarburg ) was a Swiss entrepreneur and inventor of the 2-needle knitting machine.
life and work
Zimmerli-Bäurlin was born in 1829 as the daughter of Samuel Bäurlin and Luise Bäurlin (née Hässig). After training as a handicraft teacher, she taught in Brugg and Aarburg. In 1859 she married Johann Jakob Zimmerli, who already had six children from his first marriage. Their son Oscar was born in 1860. In 1871 her husband had to close his red dye factory for economic reasons. After the bankruptcy, the couple began to build a company with knitting machines in Aarburg. The couple found out about a new knitting machine that could produce socks and stockings. The breakthrough came when Pauline Zimmerli-Bäurlin transferred the hand knitting of ribs to the knitting machine and thus invented the 2-needle knitting machine. With this invention, she laid the foundation for the Swiss jersey industry.
From 1874 she headed the company that later became Zimmerli Textil AG . In 1881 her son Oscar joined the company and they merged the company.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patrick Zehnder: Zimmerli [-Bäurlin], Ida Pauline. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Verena Parzer Epp: Pioneers of the modern Swiss. Women who lived freedom . Ed .: Verena Parzer Epp, Claudia Wirz. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03823-928-4 , pp. 159 .
- ↑ Kurt Blum: A courageous woman wrote industrial history. In: Aargauer Zeitung . February 9, 2014.
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| SURNAME | Zimmerli-Bäurlin, Pauline |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zimmerli-Bäurlin, Ida Pauline (full name); Bäurlin, Pauline (maiden name); Bäurlin, Ida Pauline (full name at birth) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aarau |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1914 |
| Place of death | Aarburg |