René Bühler

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Max René Bühler (born July 6, 1905 in Henau ; † March 26, 1987 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss entrepreneur from the Bühler family and the Swiss National Council ( FDP ). He was the managing director and co-owner of the Bühler brothers , today's Bühler AG .

Life

René Bühler was the second of five children of Adolf Bühler junior and Alice Forter , daughter of Adolf Forter.

In 1934 he was accepted into the general partnership. With the death of Adolf Bühler, he, his eldest brother Robert Adolf and his cousin Rolf Theodor played a key role in the expansion of the company into a global corporation.

René Bühler and his wife Madeleine Robert-dit-Rose had two sons, Max Heinrich Bühler and the later sole owner Urs Felix Bühler.

René Bühler was a member of the National Council ( FDP ) from 1951 to 1959 . He was a patron of the British-Swiss Parliamentarian Ski Race , in which British and Swiss Parliamentarians compete in ski races in Davos every year . He was the initiator of the St. Gallen evening technical center, founded the Swiss Milling School in 1957 and had the Hotel Uzwil built.

He sat on the board of directors from 1967 to 1985 and was chairman of the company from 1977 to 1985. During this time, Bühler set up the first plants and offices in China, making it one of the first western companies to be represented there. René Bühler died in 1987, his wife in 1996.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Müller: Adolf Bühler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 8, 2004 , accessed September 3, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b NZZ am Sonntag: No bread without Bühler , April 15, 2012, p. 38ff
  3. ^ Peter Müller: René Bühler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 30, 2003 , accessed September 3, 2012 .
  4. ↑ NZZ online: Friendship of the Nations on Ski , accessed on September 19, 2012
  5. ↑ St. Galler Tagblatt dated June 14, 2007: Milling Technical School celebrates anniversary , accessed on January 9, 2012
  6. ↑ Hotel Uzwil is now under a double management . In: St.Galler Tagblatt . July 16, 2016 ( tagblatt.ch [accessed April 24, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Bühler, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bühler, Max René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneurs and National Council (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Henau SG
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1987
Place of death St. Gallen