Rahn+Bodmer Co. moves into its new head office in Zurich’s Old Town

Rahn+Bodmer Co. gets a new logo and appearance

Rahn+Bodmer Co. changes from a general partnership to a limited partnership

Beginning of a worldwide financial crisis due to speculative inflation of the US real estate market

Rahn+Bodmer celebrates its 250-year anniversary as the oldest private bank in Zurich

Richard M. Bidermann becomes the first representative of the family currently running the Bank

Founding of the Swiss Private Bankers Association – Max Ernst Bodmer is co-author of the statutes and first president of the association

Rahn+Bodmer private bank moves into its office at Talstrasse 15 in Zurich

Stock market crash in New York; the crash causes the Great Depression in the US and the subsequent worldwide financial crisis

Rahn+Bodmer private bank obtains admission to trade on the stock exchange

Max Ernst Bodmer becomes the first representative of the family currently running the Bank; the name of the Bank is changed to Rahn+Bodmer

Zurich enacts the Stock Exchange Act (Börsengesetz) and Escher & Rahn becomes a member of the Swiss Bankers Association

The name of the Bank is changed to Escher & Rahn

Louis Rahn becomes the first representative of the family currently running the Bank

First Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation

Grand opening of the first railway line in Switzerland from Zurich to Baden

Founding of the University of Zurich

The Bank begins operating under the new name Caspar Schulthess Erben

Zurich is a battlefield: French and Russian troops fight in the middle of the city

The French march into Switzerland nine years after the French Revolution; the guilds lose their political rights in Zurich after 462 years of dominance

Founding of the (Neue) Zürcher Zeitung by Salomon Gessner at the Orell, Gessner, Füssli & Co. publishing house

Bond signed by Caspar and Hans Conrad Schulthess (the oldest extant document at our Bank)

Founding of silk-trading business by Caspar and Hans Conrad Schulthess (image)