Roland Straumann

Roland Straumann (born October 3, 1899 in Waldenburg BL ; † November 24, 1999 in Liestal ) was a doctor, entrepreneur and politician from Waldenburg in the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft .

Life

family

Roland Straumann was the son of Hermann Straumann (1862–1948) (doctor and politician) and Fanny Mathilde Thommen (1862–1928) from Waldenburg. He had three siblings. He attended the elementary and district school in Waldenburg. As the only student in his district school class (1912 to 1915), Roland learned the Latin language. In 1915 he moved to Basel to the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich Gymnasium (MNG).

In 1918 he graduated from high school and began studying medicine at the University of Basel . He went to the universities of Heidelberg , London and Paris for further training. In 1927 he married Emilie Lili Beck (1901–1953) from Basel. They had six children.

• Dorothea “Dorette” (1928–2018), in Riehen
• Kurt (1929-2017)
• Susanna (1932–2013), in Stockach
• Johann Jakob «Hans» (* 1934), in Langendorf SO ,
• Peter (1941–1980), in Marburg
• Katharina (1944–1982), in Florence

medicine

In 1926 he completed his state examination in Basel with a doctorate . In 1926, he began working as an assistant doctor in the Langenthal district hospital in the Emmental . In 1927 Roland was able to take over his father 's medical practice in Waldenburg.

After the Second World War , Straumann became involved as a supervisory doctor in the Kurhaus in Langenbruck. Migrants, Jewish refugees and war casualties were housed there. In the cantonal child care home in Langenbruck, he worked as a doctor for brain-damaged children. From 1952 to 1968 he was President of the Baselland Medical Society.

military

During the time of the Second World War, Straumann completed around 1,000 active service days in the Swiss military , during which he was mostly out and about with his horse in the rough terrain of Lenk in the Simmental . He served as an army doctor. As a commander, he headed Section V / 8 of the military medical facility in Lenk. After the end of the war he reached the rank of lieutenant colonel .

politics

Between 1940 and 1956, Straumann was a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in the Basel district administrator . 1951/1952 he was district administrator. As a politician and district administrator, he campaigned for the electrification of the Waldenburgerbahn . 1952/1953 he was President of the State Economic Commission. In 1983 he was president of the "Laufetal blyb bi Bärn" committee and in 1991 he was president of the "Baselland without Laufental" committee.

local community

In October 1936 Straumann was elected to the local council and in November 1936 to the local council president of Waldenburg.

economy

Straumann was on the board of directors of the large butcher shop Bell AG in Basel from 1935 to 1977 . In 1937 he became a board member of the Waldenburgerbahn. From 1951 he was Chairman of the Board of Management of Deutsche Bahn and from 1952 to 1980 its Chairman of the Board of Directors.

In March 1938 Straumann became a member of the board of directors of Thommens Uhrenfabrik AG . From 1942 he was delegate and from 1944 to 1993 Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Between 1945 and 1975, Straumann was a member of the Board of Directors of Basellandschaftliche Hypothekenbank . In 1954 he was the founder of Handels- und Gewerbebank AG in Liestal, whose president he remained until 1964. From 1961 to 1994 he was president of Manufactures d'Horlogerie Suisses Réunies SA (MSR-Holding).

Trivia

As early as 1911, when he was just under 12, Roland Straumann was allowed to drive his father's car. After the work was done, it wanted to be picked up. This resulted in trips to Hölstein in the Waldenburgertal or to Langenbruck . Langenbruck required a pass drive over the Upper Hauenstein . The pass height at 734 m. ü. M. had to be climbed via a narrow, unpaved road with a number of serpentines. Roland Straumann is probably the motorist with the longest driving experience. His last drive behind the wheel was in 1994.

Honors

• 1968: Honorary presidency of the Baselland Medical Society
• 1980: Honorary presidency of Waldenburgerbahn AG , Waldenburg
• 1993: Honorary presidency of Revue Thommen AG, Waldenburg

literature

• Hans Leupin: 100 years of the Waldenburgerbahn, 1880–1980. Verlag Dietschi AG, Waldenburg, 1980
• Robert Bösiger: The President. Dr. med. Roland Straumann, Waldenburg. In: Baselbieter Heimatbuch, Volume 21 (1997), pages 81-94.

Web links

• Roland Straumann in the personal lexicon of the State Archives of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft

Notes and individual references

The connections

1. ↑ Laufental stay near Bern
2. ↑ Background under: District Laufen
3. ↑ The Thommens Uhrenfabrik AG changed the company name to Revue Thommen AG in 1987
4. ↑ Robert Bösiger: The President. Dr. med. Roland Straumann, Waldenburg. In: Baselbieter Heimatbuch, Volume 21 (1997), page 83.