Wassmer (family)

Wassmer is the name of a middle-class family from Aarau that has produced a number of clergymen and entrepreneurs from the 17th century until today .

The family goes back to the pastor Brandolf, who was naturalized in 1600 (died 1623). Another Brandolf, born in 1666, “was often an Aarau mayor between 1721 and 1739”.

The family includes:

• Max Wassmer
• Ricco Wassmer
• Hubert Wassmer (Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kibag Holding AG)

literature

• Walther Merz : Book of Arms of the City of Aarau, 1917, 306
• New Swiss biography . Addendum, 1942, p. 86.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Raoul Richner: Wassmer (family). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .