Wilhelm Bachofen

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Wilhelm Bachofen-Dennler (1841–1922) engineer, entrepreneur, construction company W. Bachofen-Dennler, politician, family grave in the Hörnli cemetery, Riehen, Basel-Stadt
Family grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Wilhelm Bachofen (born August 21, 1841 in Basel ; † April 11, 1922 there ) was a Swiss engineer , building contractor and politician .

Life

Wilhelm Bachofen was born as the fourth son of the Basel-Stadt Grossmetzger, Grand Councilor and Colonel Samuel Bachofen and Katharina Fininger. After finishing school in Basel, he studied from 1861 to 1864 at the engineering school of the Zurich Polytechnic . Like his two older brothers Samuel and Arnold, he became active in the Corps Rhenania and was received on November 3, 1861. A few weeks later, on November 29, 1861, like his brother Arnold , Fritz Lotz and Hieronimus Seeli, he was one of the six founders of Corps Helvetia .

After completing his studies, he settled in Basel as an engineer and master builder. In 1875 he married Marie Dennler. They had three daughters and two sons. He was the owner of the construction company W. Bachofen-Dennler , which was renamed W. Bachofen-Dennler & Sohn after his older son Wilhelm Bachofen-Baumberger (1879–1968) joined .

From 1892 to 1893 he was chief rifleman of the Basel Fire Rifle Society . Like his father, he belonged to the Basel butchers' guild in 1248, of which he was master in 1900.

He was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt . On June 3, 1912, he opened the newly elected Synod of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Basel as its senior president.

The Bachofen brothers and corp students in Switzerland

Of Wilhelm Bachofen's three brothers, two, like himself, emerged as the founders of two Weinheim Corps , Rhenania Zurich and Helvetia Zurich , a unique fact in the history of corps students.

Samuel L. Bachofen (* 1835 in Basel; † January 25, 1858 ibid) began studying engineering with the opening of the Polytechnic in Zurich . Together with Manfred Semper and eight other students, he founded the Corps Rhenania on November 11, 1855. He died at the age of 23 as a student at the Polytechnic.

Arnold Bachofen (born March 18, 1840 in Basel; † December 18, 1894 there) studied from 1859 to 1862 at the building school of the Zurich Polytechnic. On October 23, 1859 it was received at Rhenania. On November 29, 1861 he founded the Corps Helvetia with his brother Wilhelm, Hieronimus Seeli and three other Rhenans. After completing his studies, he worked as a builder and architect in Basel until his death . From 1883 he was a lieutenant colonel in the Swiss Army.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ April 11, 1922 - HL Freyvogel, Basler Chronik from November 1, 1921 to September 30, 1922, Basler Jahrbuch 1923  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.basler-stadtbuch.ch  
  2. ↑ a b c descendants of Johann Heinrich Bachofen and Susanna Rieder (PDF; 20 kB)
  3. ^ 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855-2005. Braunschweig 2005, p. 304.
  4. ↑ Samuel Mühlberg: The Corps Helvetia Zurich (so-called Schwarz-Helvetia), co-founder of the WSC . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 50 (2005), p. 487.
  5. ^ Wilhelm Bachofen-Dennler (1841-1922) , private archive 963 in the Basel-Stadt State Archives
  6. ↑ Chief rifleman of the Basel Fire Rifle Society since 1557
  7. ↑ Zunft zu Metzgern Basel 1248, Meister since 1328  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.metzgerzunft-basel.ch  
  8. ^ Basler Chronik, entry June 3, 1912
  9. ^ 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855-2005. Braunschweig 2005, pp. 21, 295.
  10. ^ 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855-2005. Braunschweig 2005, p. 301.
  11. ↑ Samuel Mühlberg: The Corps Helvetia Zurich (so-called Schwarz-Helvetia), co-founder of the WSC . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 50 (2005), p. 486.
  12. ↑ Chronique Suisse, Promotions d'officiers, January 23, 1883. (PDF; 9.1 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Bachofen, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Basel engineer, building contractor and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1922
Place of death Basel