Ulrich Buff

Ulrich Buff (born March 9, 1704 in Wald AR ; † October 20, 1772 in Wald AR; authorized to reside in Wald AR) was a Swiss textile entrepreneur from the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Life

Ulrich Buff was a son of the businessman Ulrich Buff. In 1730 he married Katharina Schläpfer, daughter of the municipality of Captain Ulrich Schläpfer in memory . The couple had seven sons. Ulrich Buff took over his father's textile business in Wald AR and expanded it with his sons and his father-in-law. The business area mainly comprised France and southern Germany . In the years 1764 and 1766 the trade mark of the family company can be found in the trademark book of Lyon's textile dealers, from 1771 the company Bouff Père & Fils is listed in the lists of Swiss merchants in Lyon.

literature

• Ernst Züst: Forest. The history of the community of Wald . Herisau: Schläpfer 1986, pp. 107-109.
• Walter Bodmer: Textile industry and textile trade in Appenzell Ausserrhoden before 1800. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher 87/1959 (1960), pp. 3–75, here p. 43. Web access via e-periodica.ch

Web links

• Thomas Fuchs: Ulrich Buff. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 16, 2002 , accessed April 9, 2020 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Staatsarchiv Zürich, D 145, D 173, D 174. Quoted in Walter Bodmer: Textile industry and textile trade in Appenzell Ausserrhoden before 1800. In: Appenzellische Jahrbücher 87/1959 (1960), p. 43, note 47.

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