{"id":1555,"date":"2021-09-16T16:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T14:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rahnbodmer.ch\/history\/timeline\/"},"modified":"2021-10-12T05:00:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T03:00:24","slug":"timeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rahnbodmer.ch\/en\/history\/timeline","title":{"rendered":"Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n FORWARDS<\/strong>\n <\/div>\n
\n BACKWARDS<\/strong>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

2025<\/h3><\/div>
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Rahn+Bodmer Co. celebrates its 275th anniversary as Switzerland\u2019s oldest private bank<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2021<\/h3><\/div>
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Rahn+Bodmer Co. moves into its new head office in Zurich\u2019s Old Town<\/p>\n\n

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2016<\/h3><\/div>
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Rahn+Bodmer Co. gets a new logo and appearance<\/p>\n\n

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2009<\/h3><\/div>
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Rahn+Bodmer Co. changes from a general partnership to a limited partnership<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

2007<\/h3><\/div>
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Beginning of a worldwide financial crisis due to speculative inflation of the US real estate market<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

2000<\/h3><\/div>
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Rahn+Bodmer celebrates its 250-year anniversary as the oldest private bank in Zurich<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1951<\/h3><\/div>
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Richard M. Bidermann becomes the first representative of the family currently running the Bank<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1934<\/h3><\/div>
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Founding of the Swiss Private Bankers Association \u2013 Max Bodmer-Schindler is co-author of the statutes and first president of the association<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1932<\/h3><\/div>
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Rahn+Bodmer private bank moves into its office at Talstrasse 15 in Zurich<\/p>\n\n

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1929<\/h3><\/div>
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Stock market crash in New York; the crash causes the Great Depression in the US and the subsequent worldwide financial crisis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1923<\/h3><\/div>
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Rahn+Bodmer private bank obtains admission to trade on the stock exchange<\/p>\n\n

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1917<\/h3><\/div>
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Max Bodmer-Schindler becomes the first representative of the family Bodmer; the name of the Bank is changed to Rahn & Bodmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1912<\/h3><\/div>
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Zurich enacts the Stock Exchange Act (B\u00f6rsengesetz) and Escher & Rahn becomes a member of the Swiss Bankers Association<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1893<\/h3><\/div>
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The name of the Bank is changed to Escher & Rahn<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1882<\/h3><\/div>
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Louis Rahn becomes the first representative of the family currently running the Bank<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1848<\/h3><\/div>
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First Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1847<\/h3><\/div>
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Grand opening of the first railway line in Switzerland from Zurich to Baden<\/p>\n\n

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1833<\/h3><\/div>
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Founding of the University of Zurich<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1817<\/h3><\/div>
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The Bank begins operating under the new name Caspar Schulthess Erben<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1799<\/h3><\/div>
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Zurich is a battlefield: French and Russian troops fight in the middle of the city<\/p>\n\n

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1798<\/h3><\/div>
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The French march into Switzerland nine years after the French Revolution; the guilds lose their political rights in Zurich after 462 years of dominance<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

1780<\/h3><\/div>
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Founding of the (Neue) Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung by Salomon Gessner at the Orell, Gessner, F\u00fcssli & Co. publishing house<\/p>\n\n

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1768<\/h3><\/div>
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Bond signed by Caspar and Hans Conrad Schulthess (the oldest extant document at our Bank)<\/p>\n\n

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1750<\/h3><\/div>
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Founding of silk-trading business by Caspar and Hans Conrad Schulthess (image)<\/p>\n\n

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