August Stähelin

August Stähelin ( born September 16, 1812 in Basel, † September 28, 1886 in Basel) was a Swiss business leaders and politicians.

Biography

August Stähelin, son of a grocer, 1831-1833 visited the Ecole polytechnique in Paris and then made ​​several internships in the Basel area and in England. In 1838 he became technical manager of F. Sarasin & Heusler, the operational mechanical spinning mills in Haagen in the meadow valley and in Munich stone. 1862, the overall management of the company, he was assigned.

Politically, he stood as a major representative of the so-called juste milieu between the conservatives and the radicals. 1844-1884 he was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and was instrumental in the 1874 revision of the constitution, which replaced the embossed by the guilds called councilor regiment by a democratic constitution. 1849-1853 he was Kleinrat. 1855-1860 and 1861-1866 he represented the canton of Basel-Stadt in the Senate, which he 1857/58 presided.