Johann Friedrich Arnold Künzli colloquially Arnold Künzli (20 June 1832 – 9 November 1908) was a Swiss industrialist, philanthropist and politician who most notably served on the National Council (Switzerland) from 1869 to 1908 (his death). In 1879, he concurrently served as President of the National Council.
Early life and education Künzli was born 20 June 1832 in Riken, Switzerland, the third of five children, to Johann Hartmann Künzli (1804–1867), a textile manufacturer, and Anna Barbara Künzli (née Gugelmann; 1809–1865), into an affluent Protestant family.
Künzli attended the Old Cantonal School Aarau followed by a commercial apprenticeship at the firm of Hans Jacobi in Geneva.
Personal life In 1869, Künzli married Maria Elisabeth Nussbaum (1837–1886), a daughter of Rudolf Nussbaum, an affluent manufacturer, who was the proprietor of the Nussbaum dyeing works in Birrwil on Lake Hallwil.https://www.ag.ch/denkmalpflege/suche/detail.aspx?ID=131701 They had six children;
Elisa Marie Künzli (1870–1909), married Jakob Weber (1862–1963), textile industrialist and colonel, of Murgenthal, with issue.100th birthday announcement (NZZ, 1962)
https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=NZZ19620515-01.2.51&srpos=2&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN-Weber%252DK%C3%BCnzli-------0----- Anna Frieda Künzli (1872–1872) Emma Margaretha Künzli (1872–1972), married to Caesar "Theodor" Fehlmann (1875–1960), textile manufacturer of Schöftland and Birrwil, with issue.Death notice of Theodor Fehlmann-Künzli (NZZ 1960)
https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=NZZ19600516-01.2.51.3&srpos=1&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN-Fehlmann%252DKünzli-------0-----100th birthday announcement (Neue Berner Zeitung 1972)
https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=NBZ19720724-01.2.6.8&srpos=2&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN-Fehlmann%252DK%C3%BCnzli-------0----- Among her great-grandsons is the art historian Marc Fehlmann. Anna Julia Künzli (1874–1949), married Oskar Heinrich Weber (1868–1952), industrialist and president of Metallwaren Zug with issue. Anna Frieda Künzli (1876–1879), twin of Samuel Samuel Arnold Künzli (1876–1879), twin of Anna
Künzli passed away 9 November 1908 in Murgenthal, Switzerland aged 76.
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