Rudolf Stämpfli (born 3 August 1955, in

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) is a Swiss entrepreneur of the graphic arts industry and publisher. Together with his brother Peter Stämpfli since 1988, he has run the sixth generation of the family business

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in Bern.

Life

Stämpfli spent his school time in Bern. From 1977 to 1982, Rudolf Stämpfli studied

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and

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at the

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(HSG). In 1985, through his doctoral thesis on the calculation in the graphic arts industry he received his oec. HSG doctorate. In 1998, Stämpfli completed further education at the

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. At the "dies academicus" in December 2014, the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the

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awarded him an

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Career

In 1984 he joined the family business, Stämpfli AG in Bern, and in 1988, at the age of 33, he took over the company together with his brother Peter Stämpfli. Today he is President of the board of directors and publisher of Stämpfli Verlag AG. From 2009 he was also President of the Board of Directors of

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in Bern until November 2020, when he retired for health reasons; and has been Vice President of the Board of Mobiliar Holding AG since 2013. From 28 June 2003 until 1 July 2011 he was President of the Swiss Employers Association. In addition, Stämpfli engaged in the Burgergemeinde Bern, acting as its vice president from 2011 to mid-2016, when he retired for health reasons. In 2017, Stämpfli achieved a compromise between

and

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in their extended legal dispute over new long-distance concessions.

Awards

* 2009: 25th HIV award winner of the Canton of Bern * 2014: Dr. rer. oec. H. c. awarded by the University of Bern

External links

Website of Stämpfli AG

Rudolf Stämpfli
on the website BLS AG

on the website Mobiliar

References

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