Ueli Prager
Ueli Prager (born August 15, 1916 in Wiesbaden ; † October 15, 2011 in Mettmenstetten ; resident in Zurich ) was a Swiss entrepreneur and founder of Mövenpick .
Life
The hotelier's son Prager, born in Wiesbaden in 1916, attended the Trogen Cantonal School from 1929 to 1936 . He then began studying at the University of Zurich , which he did not complete. From 1940 to 1944 he was an employee of the Swiss Hotel Trust Company. In 1948, Prager opened the first Mövenpick restaurant in the Claridenhof office building in Zurich, thanks to the advocacy of Ernst Göhner. Little by little, several branches were founded under his leadership.
Mövenpick developed into a large corporation, and in 1962 the fast food restaurant chain Silberkugel was opened based on the American model. The first two Mövenpick hotels were established in 1972. In 1970, the first wine cellars in Switzerland and Germany were opened under the name Caves Mövenpick, and in 1972 ice cream production began. At the end of the 1980s, Prager resigned as president. He initially left the business to his wife. In 1992, Prager, who distinguished himself as an entrepreneur with his good business acumen and willingness to take risks, sold the majority of Mövenpick shares to the German investor August von Finck junior .
Following the sale of Mövenpick, Prager moved to Maidenhead near London. Furthermore, he often stayed in Switzerland in his Crap da Sass castle on the Silvaplana plain in the Engadine. Prager was married three times and had six children. He died at the age of 95.
literature
- Pierre Itor: Ueli Prager's Mövenpick story. Rothenhäusler, Stäfa 1993, ISBN 3-907960-60-2 .
- Andreas Schwab: Ueli Prager. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Ueli Prager in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Mövenpick founder Ueli Prager turns 90 , food-service industry news, August 14, 2006
- The rise and fall of the Mövenpick empire. In: Tages-Anzeiger from October 18, 2011
- Ueli Prager wrote gastro and hotel history. In: Swissinfo from October 18, 2011
- «Mövenpick» founder Prager died at the age of 95. Video in: Swiss television from October 18, 2011 (2 minutes)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rita Flubacher: Ueli Prager has died. , Tages-Anzeiger , October 18, 2011, accessed October 18, 2011.
- ↑ Ueli Prager. In: moneyhouse.ch from October 18, 2011
- ^ Ueli Prager - a pioneer in Swiss gastronomy. In: NZZ Online from October 18, 2011
- ↑ Ueli Prager is dead , Blick Online , October 18, 2011, accessed on June 26, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prager, Ueli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss entrepreneur and founder of Mövenpick |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 15, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 2011 |
| Place of death | Mettmenstetten |