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Heinrich Handschin: Relief
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The hiring of the young Jakob Wirz proved to be a great success. Under his management the Handschin firm emerged as an extremely profitable large enterprise. The financial statement for the year of 1882 was the best the firm had ever seen, thus Heinrich Handschin gave Wirz a bonus of sfr. 5,000.00 and promoted him to general manager.
The Handschin Foundation: Secondary Studies
The Handschin Foundation: Secondary Studies
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Forcart-Respinger, E. Basel und das Seidenband. Basel 1942 [Basel and the Silk Ribbon].
The Handschin Foundation: Picture Credits [Giving Only English Translations Of The Titles]
The Handschin Foundation: Picture Credits [Giving Only English Translations Of The Titles]
Swiss American Historical Society Review
All photographs and reproductions: Felix Gysin, Microfilm Depatrment of Canton Basel-Landschaft
Preface, Ruth Haener
Preface, Ruth Haener
Swiss American Historical Society Review
A person who has erected a memorial to himself easily elicits rumors and speculations which even intensify if he came from nowhere and left great riches but seemed to have little personality.
Foreword, Hans Fünfschilling
Foreword, Hans Fünfschilling
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Handschin Foundation is 100 years old. Thanks to this Foundation many young people from the Canton Basel-Landschaft have been receiving scholarships which have made it easier, or even possible, for them to get an education. The founder, the industrialist Heinrich Handschin from Rickenbach, regretted his own lack of formal education throughout his life. Therefore he provided in his last will that "poor, gifted young people from the Canton" were to be helped to complete an education appropriate to their abilities.
Heinrich Handschin: Retirement To Private Life
Heinrich Handschin: Retirement To Private Life
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In 1885, at the age of 55, Heinrich Handschin made the tried and tested Jakob Wirz his partner. He informed his clients that "I have accepted my present general manager Jakob Wirz as joint proprietor in my silk ribbon enterprise which I will continue under the name of Heinrich Handschin & Wirz."
Heinrich Handschin: Childhood Places
Heinrich Handschin: Childhood Places
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Heinrich Handschin was born on February 1, 1830, in Rickenbach in the Canton of Basel-Landschaft as the son of Anna Maria Obrist and Johannes Handschin. He was the youngest of four children and grew up in the 'Butcher House' named for the butcher line of the Handschin family from Rickenbach which has many wide-spread branches. Yet for a long time there had been no more butchers in the family, instead there were lacemakers, weavers of silk ribbons, small farmers, day-laborers and farmhands. In the 19th century other family members undertook the difficult journey to America in the hope to find …
The Handschin Foundation: Franz Hasenböhler
The Handschin Foundation: Franz Hasenböhler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Born on November 1, 1936 as citizen of Therwil near Basel. He attended the elementary school in Therwil and graduated with a Matura [the nationally required exam which allows entering a Swiss (or German, Austrian) university, type A, i.e. with Greek and Latin] from the humanities branch of the Gymnasium [college preparatory school] in Basel in 1956. Subsequently he studied philosophy and law at the universities of Basel and Fribourg and received a doctor in law in 1974.
Heinrich Handschin: Wilhelm Mohler
Heinrich Handschin: Wilhelm Mohler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Mohler, Wilhelm from Thtirnen, born on July 3, 1911, moved in 1916 to Gelterkinden. Parents: Wilhelm and Elise Mohler-Mohler. The father was a watch-maker [Uhrensteinschleifer - grinding a part for watches], after 1916 he worked on the roads in Gelterkinden; the mother was a homemaker and silk-ribbon weaver.
Heinrich Handschin: Things Are Looking Up
Heinrich Handschin: Things Are Looking Up
Swiss American Historical Society Review
A real change did not come until Handschin turned his back on the silk ribbons and in 1863 began to produce ribbons for fire hoses. This cheap ribbon made of the raw material flax finally brought him the long expected commercial upswing. Drabbet (coarse linen) unlike silk or cotton could be bought inexpensively since it was produced in Russia and thus was not subject to tariffs. Low wages and long work hours which guaranteed the best possible use of the machines also contributed to making Moscow an extremely attractive industrial place for Heinrich Handschin.
Special Report: My Trip To Helvetia, West Virginia, Rosa Schupbach
Special Report: My Trip To Helvetia, West Virginia, Rosa Schupbach
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Burials In The Tomb Of The Swiss-American Society New Orleans, John Geiser Iii
Burials In The Tomb Of The Swiss-American Society New Orleans, John Geiser Iii
Swiss American Historical Society Review
On July 3, 1871, an improved constitution was adopted and a burial ground in Greenwood Cemetery was purchased. The yellow fever epidemic of 1878 caused the entire plot of ground to be filled and compelled action on the building of a suitable vault, which was completed and consecrated with appropriate ceremonies on October 5, 1879.
Book Review, Christian D. Nokkentved Ph.D.
Book Review, Christian D. Nokkentved Ph.D.
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
The Purysburg Colonists Of South Carolina And Their Descendants, Claudette Holliday
The Purysburg Colonists Of South Carolina And Their Descendants, Claudette Holliday
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In October 2006 I took a trip to Switzerland in search of ancestors wit
a few members of the Purysburg Preservation Foundation. A genealogy
travel destination is common among those searching for their roots .
However, until you actually have experienced it yourself, the stories are just
words on a page.
The International Life Of A Swiss Hotelkeeper, Marianne Burkhard
The International Life Of A Swiss Hotelkeeper, Marianne Burkhard
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Among the papers of Ferdinand Sperl there is a
small black book in which he chronicled the stages of
his life from his childhood to the 1960s. This
chronicle is very interesting as it shows first, how the
son of a hotelier was thoroughly prepared for
following in his family's footsteps as a fourth
generation hotelier, and second, how his arrival in the
United States in 1939 and the Second World War led
him to an unexpected career in military intelligence
after which he returned to his career as hotelier.
Book Review: James Joyce: The Last Journey, Robert Means
Book Review: James Joyce: The Last Journey, Robert Means
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Although, James Joyce once had to make a large deposit in a Swiss bank to ensure that he and his family would not become welfare cases of the Swiss government (Edel 33) - this was in 1940 when Joyce and his family fled Paris for Zurich - it's not the city's financial reputation that is the most important connection that Zurich has to the life and work of the author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Zurich, with its deserved reputation as a cosmopolitan haven for exiles, as a center of medicine, and as the birthplace of psychoanalysis, provided Joyce with …
The Battle Of Morgarten In 1315: An Essential Incident In The Founding Of The Swiss State, Albert Winkler
The Battle Of Morgarten In 1315: An Essential Incident In The Founding Of The Swiss State, Albert Winkler
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Political realities in the German Empire at the beginning of the fourteenth century were harsh, and communities that wanted to gain or maintain their autonomy had to deal with serious external threats. Most frequently, this meant that military success was essential for survival. Many forces vied for authority, influence, and domination over the regions that formed the Swiss Confederation, which later developed into the modem state of Switzerland. The largest threat to Swiss sovereignty in this period was factions of nobles, most importantly the house of Habsburg, which were expanding their control over the region. By the early fourteenth century, …
Book Review: The Boat Is Full: Swiss Asylum Denied, Richard Hacken
Book Review: The Boat Is Full: Swiss Asylum Denied, Richard Hacken
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Das Boot ist voll (sometimes translated as "The Lifeboat is Full"), directed by Markus Imhoof, is a notable accomplishment in Swiss cinema of the late 20th century. It received the Silver Berlin Bear for Outstanding Single Achievement in 1981 at the Berlin International Film Festival, and the following year it was nominated for an Academy A ward in the category of Best Foreign Film. These honors presumably sprang not merely from recognition of Imhoof' s courage in recalibrating the past, in putting an alternate face on the Holocaust, and in documenting Swiss refugee policies during the Second World War. These …
Book Review: Lenin In Zurich, Axel Fair-Schulz, Katherine French
Book Review: Lenin In Zurich, Axel Fair-Schulz, Katherine French
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The recent death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn on August 3rd of this year might prompt a fresh look at that writer's oeuvre. While Solzhenitsyn is mainly associated with well known works, such as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago, one should not neglect his less widely known books. Among those is his Lenin in Zurich. This volume should be of particular interest to readers engaged with all things Swiss, given its overt subject matter. One learns much about Switzerland in the early years of the last century as a major locus for Russian emigres. Solzhenitsyn …
Book Review: School For Genius - The Story Of The Eth, The Swiss Federal Institute Oftechnology,From 1855 To The Present, Heinrich Medicus
Book Review: School For Genius - The Story Of The Eth, The Swiss Federal Institute Oftechnology,From 1855 To The Present, Heinrich Medicus
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In various rank listings of the world's universities most of the top places are occupied by institutions in the English speaking world. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich is one of the few breaking into these prestigious positions. (The sister institute in Lausanne is much younger and smaller, hence did not yet have time enough to grow to fame.) However, in many people's view, ETH in Zurich is not as well known in the United States as it should deserve.