Schild

The Schild family is closely associated with watchmaking in Grenchen. The family founded the famous firms, Eterna (Urs Schild and Josef Girard) and A. Schild (Adolph Schild), and were associated with many other firms in the town.

Schild Companies

• Schild Frères (1856-present) - Founded as Dr. Girard & Schild by Urs Schild, became known as Eterna in the 20th century, spawned ETA within Ebauches SA in 1932, spun out of SMH in 1995
• A. Schild (1896-1979) - Founded by Adolf Schild, initiated Ebauches SA in 1926, merged into ETA in 1979
• Schild & Co (1901-1979) - Founded by Otto Schild as a joint venture to produce the Hebdomas watch in 1901, established as Schild & Co in 1913, became a leading producer of electric clocks, bankrupt in 1979

Schild Family Tree

• Philipp Schild (1797-1848)
  • Franz Josef Schild (1821-1889)
  • Josef Schild (1824-1866)
• Anton Schild (1800-1877) married Maria Schnyder (1802-1878)
  • Urs Schild-Rust (August 31, 1829-April 25, 1888) second of 8 children, married Magdalena Urs Hugi (1827-1864) and had 3 children, then married 1866 Elise Rust (1844 or 1848?-February 27, 1898) and had 10 more children - Dr. Girard and Schild Ebauches/Schild Frères
    • Walter Schild-Farcot (1860-December 29 1897) - Engineer in Cairo, son of Magdalena Schild-Hugi
      • Maurice Schild
      • Francois Schild
      • Hélène Schild
    • Maximilian "Max" Schild (1866-February 10 1927) married Jeanette Francisca Maria Anna "Jeanne" van den Brink (April 12 1867-May 24 1943) - Took over Schild Frères after the death of his father but left in 1898
      • Rudolf Franz Schild-Comtesse (October 12 1900-December 12 1978) married Madeline Comtesse (-October 14 1966) - Eterna/ETA, Ebauches SA, ASUAG, General Watch Co, FAR
        • Jacqueline Colombo-Schild
        • Alfred Schild
        • Marianne Büchler-Schild
        • Claude R. Schild (1948-) - Eterna
    • Théodor Schild (May 31, 1870-May 31, 1950) - Co-founded the Cosmos bicycle factory before returning to run Schild Frères/Eterna
      • Gerda Seidlitz-Schild married Hans V. Seidlitz
        • Edda V. Tschammer
      • René Schild
      • Lilian Benziger-Schild married Albert Benziger
        • Fredy Benzinger
        • Anita Benzinger
      • Roswitha Benziger-Schild married Adelrich Benziger
        • Ursula Benziger
        • Monique Benziger
    • Anny Schild?
    • Bruno Schild-Haag (1874-May 8, 1923) married Louise Haag (1880-April 19, 1922) - Took over the Cosmos bicycle factory
    • Hans Schild
    • Léo-Otto "Otto" Schild (1876-1941) - Founded the printing company Vogt-Schild AG with Gottlieb Vogt-Schild which published the newspaper Solothurner Zeitung
    • Arthur Schild (1878-1945) - Took over the Cosmos bicycle factory
  • Margrit Schild (1836-1918)
  • Elise Schild (1839-1913)
  • Urs-Josef "Joseph" Schild (1841-1905) - Singer in Dresden and Meiningen
  • Adolf Schild-Hugi (1844-1915) married Pauline Hugi (1850-1931) - A. Schild SA
    • César Schild-Krebs (1878-May 19 1936) - A. Schild SA
      • Agnes Schild-Krebs
      • Rudolf-César Schild (1908-1973) - A. Schild SA, Georges Ruedin SA
      • Trudy Schild married Pierre Baumgartner
    • Adolf Schild (1879-1972) - A. Schild SA
    • Ernst Schild (1885-1945) - A. Schild SA
    • Robert Schild-Howald (1890-1967) married Clara Howald - A. Schild SA

• Otto Schild-Wyss (November 4, 1873-September 26, 1961) married April 7 1903 Blanche-Cécile Wyss (August 21, 1874-June 13, 1931) - Schild & Co
  • Elsa Matthey-Doret-Schild (1904?-September 22 1977) married Robert Matthey-Doret
  • Max Schild-Buess (died before 1977) married Paulette Buess (died after 1977)
  • Werner Schild-Carré (died after 1977) - Cristal Watch
  • Léon-Bernard Schild-Gerber (1909?-January 25 1976) married June 12 1961 Hélène-Madeline Gerber