File 390/1917 Pt 2 ‘Persia: exclusion of undesirable aliens from’ [‎111r] (175/188)

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Copy of iieport from k.U.G., Berne, dated 5.10.18
KILDEBHMD, Henri.
HAAFLAUB, Fritz Ernst.
Above named are applying for permission to go to Persia
to represent there the "Schweiz. Handelsgesellschaft fftr Persien"
This Company was formed on the 21st March last with a capital
of two million francs with the following Directors
Oberst RaSSLEK, Aarau. President.
Dr. jur. Jakob tfACuECK, Bale, Vice-President.
J.H. FKEY, Zurich.
Dr. H. PAGNINI, Bale.
The business of the Company is to export to Persia Swiss
products, espedially chemicals, and to import Persian products
into Switzerland.
We have asked the opinion of the Commercial Attach^ at the
British Legation in tferne as regards this Company, and he has
given us a favourable report, and adds that they have put down
large plant for dye making" for the United Kingdom.
In regard to the two applicants to travel, we are able to
inform you as followsJ-
HILPEBRAND, Henri. Born at Ossingen, Zurich, 2S.11.79, of
Swiss nationality. States that he went to Persia in 1904 for
ZIEGLER & Co., a Manchester firm, and remained there until 1908.
He then joined the Eastern Rug and Trading Co. In 1912 this Com
pany was bought up by the Oriental Carpet Manufacturers Ltd., of
which applicant was made manager for Central Persia. In February
1916 he returned to Switzerland; chiefly on account of the trou
bles in Persia, passing through Russia, Stockholm and Germany on
his way home. In August 1917 his agreement with tne Oriental v^c.
had finished, and he afterwards joined the Company mentioned above,
the Swiss Trading Co. for Persia, of which he has been appointed
manager. ■ .
We note this man is mentioned in your B/00305 of 1.2.If . in
connection with Hans HARTmAHH. We therefore examined him as to
the connection. HILDEchaND states that he merely knew HARTMANN
as an employ^ in the same Company! that HARTMANN was pro-German
in his views, but that there were never any close relations be
tween them, especially as they were not working in the same place.
RAAFLAUB, Fritz Ernst. Born Berne 2.11.82, of Swiss nation-
alityT This man went" "to'Persia in 1906, also to ZIEGLER & Co. ,
of Manchester, and remained with the latter firm until 1909.
then returned to Switzerland on leave for two mcntns, and return— ^
ed in December 1909 for the Eastern Aug and Trading Co. When the
latter was bought up, he joined the Oriental Carpet Manufacturing
Co., and was with this firm at Kerman until 1914. . nR Te
to Switzerland on leave in April 1914, and at the time when he
was intending to return, the conditions in Persia made it impossi
ble for him to get there. Later, on account of lack cn business
in Persia, he left this firm, and has teen living on his means
until lately, when he joined the Swiss Trading Co. This man
states that he did not know HARTMANN in Persia, but met him at a
meeting held in Berne in July 1916 of Swiss business men connec
ted with Persia. He states that HARTMANN has since gone to .csr —
lin for a German carpet Co., which used to operate in Persia, but
which apparently now only exists in one town there, xabriz.
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