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Swiss American Historical Society Review

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2006

Othmar Ammann

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Foreword, Heinz B. Bachmann Jun 2006

Foreword, Heinz B. Bachmann

Swiss American Historical Society Review

In the year of the Swiss Roots Program it seems very appropriate indeed to devote an entire issue of the SAHS Review to the family of Dipl. Ing. ETH , Othmar Ammann, one of the most prominent Swiss immigrants of the 20th century. The following article is a homage by a loving daughter to her world famous father and his ancestors going back some 460 years.


Honorable Ancestors, Margot Ammann Durrer Jun 2006

Honorable Ancestors, Margot Ammann Durrer

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The story of the Ammann family of Schaffhausen sketches a cross section of the history of that town from the middle of the 15th century into the end of the 20th. Likewise, the events of history as they played out in Schaffhausen during those times very much shaped the history of the Ammann family.