Wolfgang Henggeler (politician, 1814)

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Wolfgang Henggeler
Share of the spinning mill on the Lorze from 1875 with the signature of Wolfgang Henggeler

Wolfgang Henggeler (born March 21, 1814 in Unterägeri ; † June 14, 1877 in Baar, Catholic , resident in Unterägeri and from 1861 in Zurich) was a Swiss entrepreneur and liberal politician .

biography

Wolfgang Henggeler was born in Unterägeri as the youngest of nine children of the blacksmith and interpreter Josef Franz Henggeler (1761–1820) and Katharina, a native of Menzing , daughter of Seidenfergger and councilor Uhr from Neuheim. The Uhr family was friends with that of the cotton publisher Kaspar Höhn from Hirzel, whose daughter Anna Barbara later married Hans Jakob Schmid, the founder of the Gattikon spinning mill.

After attending school in Unterägeri, he completed an apprenticeship as a mill builder and drawing school from 1829 to 1831. 1831/32 he worked as a technician in the spinning mill of Hans Jakob Schmid in Gattikon and continued his self-study. In 1832/33 he worked as a factory worker in the mechanical cotton spinning mill Wieland, Schmid & Co. in Langnau am Albis, where he acquired knowledge of spinning technology.

In 1834 he founded the Unterägeri spinning mill, the first spinning mill in the canton of Zug , with his brothers Alois and Franz Josef, his uncle and foster father Johann Jakob Henggeler and his brother-in-law Klemens Iten . In 1836/37 the factory was a contract spinning mill for the Gattikon spinning mill, which belonged to his future father-in-law and his brother Heinrich Schmid . Until 1860 he was technical director and until 1873 president of the general partnership Gebr. Henggeler & Cie. In 1844 he married Barbara Schmid, daughter of Jakob, a miller and spinning mill owner, from Thalwil.

With Heinrich Schmid, who became a partner in the Unterägeri spinning mill in 1838, he participated in other companies: in 1846 in the Neuägeri spinning mill founded by his cousin Meinrad Henggeler (merger with the Unterägeri spinning mill in 1860), in the Kollermühle weaving mill in Zug in 1850, in the Lorze spinning mill in Baar (of which he was president from 1875 to 1877) and at the Gattikon silk weaving mill and, in 1864, at the Felsenau spinning mill in Bern.

As an economically liberal politician, he campaigned for better transport routes (1837 member of the municipal road commission, 1838 of the cantonal road commission, 1856 member of a Zurich-Zurich committee for the connection of the canton of Zug to the railroad). He was Cantonal Councilor of Zug (1839–41, 1843–45, 1848–77), District Administrator (1847–48), Constitutional Council (1847–48), Governor in the Government Council (1848–49) and from 1860 to 1867 National Councilor. He lived in Zurich from 1855 and in Baar from 1869. From 1862 to 1866 he was Zurich Grand Councilor and a close ally of Alfred Escher .

He was successfully involved in economic, social and school-political issues and was an important founder of Zug's economic history. With his Reformed wife, he promoted the Reformed parish of the Canton of Zug established in 1864. Barbara Henggeler-Schmid (1822–1897) founded the first girls' class in Unterägeri in 1844, which she taught herself for several years.

literature

  • Rudolf Henggeler: The Henggeler, valley people to Ägeri. E. Kalt-Zehnder, Zug 1934.
  • Hans Koch: Wolfgang Henggeler. In: Swiss pioneers in business and technology. 10, 1959, pp. 39-65.
  • Michael van Orsouw: Wolfgang Henggeler (1814–1877). The pioneering but overrated textile industrialist. In: The canton of Zug between 1798 and 1850. Volume 2. Balmer, Zug 1998, ISBN 3-85548-050-8 , pp. 206-219.
  • Renato Morosoli (Ed.): Aegerital - his story. Unter- and Oberägeri 2003.

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Henggeler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Werner Amann: 100 years of spinning on the Lorze Baar 1854-1954
  2. ^ [1] Christian Lüthi: The Felsenau spinning mill 1864–1975. An important chapter in Bern's industrial past .
  3. ↑ Family Henggeler: Wolfgang Henggeler-Schmid (1814–1877)
  4. ^ SAE-Immobilien AG: History of the Unterägeri and Neuägeri spinning mills
personal data
SURNAME Henggeler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneur and liberal politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterägeri
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1877
Place of death Baar