Robert Holzach
Robert Holzach (born September 28, 1922 in Zurich ; † March 24, 2009 ibid) was a Swiss bank manager and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Bank Corporation (SBG).
Live and act
Robert Holzach, son of the businessman Ernst Holzach and a great-grandson of Dietrich Holzach , from whom the dual citizenship of Aarau and Basel derives, grew up in Kreuzlingen . He attended high school in Trogen . Then studied at the Universities of Zurich and Geneva jurisprudence . Holzach received his doctorate in 1949 and then worked at the Arbon District Court .
In 1951 he acquired the Thurgau lawyer patent and joined the Swiss Bank Corporation. In 1955 he became an authorized signatory there and in 1956 vice director of the commercial department. In 1960 he was promoted to deputy director and in 1962 to director of the commercial department. In 1966 he became Deputy General Director and in 1968 General Director with responsibility for the lending business in German-speaking Switzerland. From 1971 to 1976 he was also head of the services division and from 1976 was responsible for the staff units and their coordination within the general management. In 1980 he was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors, an office that he held until 1988. Nikolaus Senn followed him . From 1988 to 1998 Holzach was honorary president of the bank.
Holzach initiated or founded several cultural foundations in the cantons of Thurgau and Zurich, including the Zurich James Joyce Foundation . In the military he was a colonel .
In 1997 the American columnist and writer Jane Kramer quoted anti-Semitic statements in the weekly newspaper The New Yorker . Holzach said that the controversy surrounding Switzerland's role in World War II was the result of a Jewish conspiracy aimed at taking over the most prestigious financial markets. Holzach declared that he had never made such statements. A public prosecutor's investigation was discontinued.
Works
- Public property restrictions and expropriation-like facts. A contribution to the question of the demarcation between the two legal institutions under Swiss law. Juris, Zurich 1951. (Dissertation, University of Zurich, 1949.)
- Bank management in theory and practice. (Together with Leo Schuster and Heinz Lehner.) Bern 1973.
- Thurgau Cultural Foundation Ottoberg. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch. Vol. 73 (1998), pp. 71-77.
literature
- Gustaf Adolf Wanner : The Holzach. Story of an old Swiss family. Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1982, p. 192 f.
- Konrad Hummler (Ed.): Personality and responsibility: memories of Robert Holzach. Wolfau-Druck, Weinfelden 2010, ISBN 978-3-9523611-5-3 .
- Claude Baumann : Robert Holzach. A Swiss banker and his time. With a foreword by Henry Kissinger . Verlag NZZ, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-03823-914-7 .
Web links
- Verena Rothenbühler: Robert Holzach. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- On the death of UBS President Robert Holzach , finews.ch, March 25, 2009
- Estate at the Archives for Contemporary History (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ermes Gallarotti: On the death of Nikolaus Senn. Edgy, humorous, successful. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from November 5, 2014
- ↑ obituary Holzach on finews.ch
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holzach, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss bank manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 24, 2009 |
| Place of death | Zurich |