Salomon Zellweger
Salomon Zellweger (also Salomon Zellweger-Walser ; born August 2, 1807 in Trogen AR ; † March 15, 1887 ibid) was a Swiss entrepreneur .
His father was Jacob Zellweger (1770-1821). His numerous siblings included Jacob and Ulrich Zellweger . The future Tsar Nicholas I also frequented the hustle and bustle. In 1815 his mother Anna Hirzel died after giving birth to her 17th child. His father's business suffered heavy losses from 1812-1817 as a result of the Napoleonic Wars .
Salomon Zellweger attended private teachers and schools in Ludwigsburg and from 1821-1824 the new canton school Trogen . His sister Anna Wibertha (1794-1896) married Georg Friedrich Krauss (1786-1859) in Rheineck , with whom he completed his commercial apprenticeship and for whom he then acted as a representative in Brussels until 1830. He then headed a trading house for cotton and textiles in Amsterdam until 1837 .
From 1837 to 1874 he ran his own textile export and manufacturing company in Trogen.
On December 15, 1837 he married Anna Walser from Heiden AR (* August 17, 1817; † May 30, 1906), the only daughter of Bartholome Walser and Wiberta, née. Eugster. She had inherited 80,000 at a young age. Their honeymoon of several months led through Germany, Holland, France and Italy. During the fire in Heiden in 1838, his wife suffered considerable financial losses. In 1840/1841 they built their house in a suburb of Trogen.
During that time, the boom in industry and trade created new insurance needs, and Zellweger co-founded the general insurance company Helvetia (1858) in St. Gallen as the first Swiss transport insurer . Likewise after the devastating fire in Glarus , the Helvetia Swiss Fire Insurance Company (1861), of which he was Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors until his death. He also initiated the establishment of the bank for Appenzell A. Rh. In. Herisau ( Canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden ) and was vice-president of the “Appenzell non-profit society” from 1865 to 1874. He was informed about the development of telephony at Siemens through the Swiss envoy, Arnold Roth , who stayed in Berlin from 1877 , so that in 1880 he financed his son Alfred 's entry into this business.
Web links
- Thomas Fuchs: Zellweger, Salomon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Salomon Zellweger-Walser and the founding of the Helvetia insurance companies. In: Appenzeller Calendar, Volume 287 (2008) doi : 10.5169 / seals-377360
- Chapter: Origin and first time in: memorial sheets to Jakob Steig-Meyer: a pioneer of the eastern Swiss textile industry, Swiss trade policy, social policy. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher, Volume 60 (1933) doi : 10.5169 / seals-272747
Individual evidence
- ^ Eldest son of Ludwig Friedrich Krauss ; http://www.jahrhundderzellweger.ch/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/stammbaum_rathaus_72dpi.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zellweger, Salomon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zellweger-Walser, Salomon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trogen AR |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1887 |
| Place of death | Trogen AR |