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Max Huwyler
Max Huwyler (born December 6 1931 in Zug) is a Swiss writer.
Originally, Max Huwyler was a high school teacher in Zurich. He wrote several books for children, theatre plays, poetry, fiction stories and radio plays. He co-authored with Walter Flückiger a book in the volumes titled Welt der Wörter (World of Words) in 1983. His works include further texts for children, plays for the school stage, radio plays, poems and children's books. He also translated plays by Elias Canetti and Günter Grass into Swiss German.
Huwyler was awarded with the Swiss Youth Book Award in 1993, the Schiller Foundation Award in 1996 and the Recognition Award of the Zug Canton, the Central Swiss Media Award of the DRS Radio and the Zons Radio Drama Award in 2004.
Friedrich Huwyler
Friedrich Huwyler (born September 29, 1942 in Bünzen; died October 4, 2009 in Grossen Mythen) was a Swiss politician. He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party.
Huwyler was Council and Mayor from 1978 to 1980 for the Schwyz Cantonal Government. He was an attorney who led his own law firm. He was appointed Director of Justice for two legislative sessions for Schwyz from 1996 to 2004. He served as Member of the Cantonal Council of the Canton of Schwyz from 2002 to 2004.[1] Huwyler lived in Rickenbach (SZ).
Huwyler died on October 4, 2009 in a hiking accident in Grosser Mythen.
Jakob Huwyler
Jakob Huwyler II (August 30, 1867 – April 27, 1938), Swiss artist, was born in Sursee LU, the son of Jakob Huwyler I, another painter. He is famous for painting the frescos in the Catholic church of St. Andreas in Gremheim (Dillingen, Germany).
Jost Franz Huwyler-Boller
Jost-Franz Huwyler-Boller (1874 – 1930) was a Swiss architect from Zurich who built several famous hotels. He is best known as the architect of historic Kurhaus Hotel in Bergün, GR. This grand hotel was designed following the Jugendstil style. The hotel was built from 1905 to 1907. It was awarded as the "historical hotel of the year" in 2012 by ICOMOS. He also designed the Cresta Palace Hotel in Celerina (St. Moritz), the Schweizerhof Hotel in Como and the former Hotel Reber au Lac in Locarno.
Burkhard Huwiler
Burkhard Huwiler, M.Afr. (7 April 1868-1 October 1954), was a Swiss Roman Catholic bishop who served as a missionary in Africa from 1929 to 1946.Huwiler was born in Buttwil, in the Canton of Argau, the son of Martin Leonz and Ana Maria Barbara Huwiler. He attended a gymnasium in Einsiedeln, after which, in 1887, he entered the seminary of the Missionaries of Africa (traditionally known as the White Fathers), determined to serve in the missions there. At the age of 25, on 2 July 1893, he was ordained a priest. Before his pastoral work in central Africa, he traveled for four years throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland, charged with raising funds for the work of his congregation. In 1897 he was sent to serve in the region of Lake Victoria, then part of German East Africa. Two years later he had to return home to Switzerland due to his health, where he remained until 1904, when he returned to Africa.Due to his nationality, Huwiler was able to remain at his post after World War I, when Germany lost this colony and it became a League of Nations mandate, to be administered by the United Kingdom, called the Tanganyika Territory. In March 1929 Huwiler was named by Pope Pius XI to head the newly created Vicariate Apostolic of Bukoba (now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rulenge-Ngara) and titular bishop of Vazaritanus. He was consecrated on the following 14 July by Bishop Joseph Sweens, M.Afr.Huwiler resigned his office on 20 March 1946 and died in Bukoba, where he was buried, in keeping with the practice of his congregationARD Franciscus Huwyler Stiftskirche Beromünster