Christian Gerber

1897 - 1983  (85 years)

• Name	Christian Gerber
  Born	24 May 1897
  Gender	Male
  Address	Address: Christian Gerber Reinach, Reinach Switzerland Switzerland
  Died	29 Jan 1983
  Person ID	I0018	Gerber Family Tree | Descendants of Christian Gerber I5869
  Last Modified	14 Feb 2021

  
  

  Father	Ulrich Gerber,   b. 5 Jul 1868,   d. 14 Feb 1919  (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Rosa Gasser,   b. 17 Aug 1865, Langnau (im Emmental), Bern, Switzerland ,   d. 26 Jun 1935, Langnau (im Emmental), Bern, Switzerland  (Age 69 years)
  Married	3 Sep 1892	Langnau (im Emmental), Bern, Switzerland   [1]
  Photos		Gerber, Ulrich Family Tree Family tree of Ulrich Gerber taken at 2009 Family Reunion
  Documents		Gerber, Ulrich and Rosa Gasser Family Sheet Family Sheet (Familienschein) for Ulrich Gerber and Rosa Gasser from Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft
  		Gerber, Ulrich and Rosa Gasser Family Sheet Ulrich Gerber and Rosa Gasser Family Sheet
  Histories		Gerber-Ulrich Family A chart of the family of Ulrich Gerber, submitted by Fritz Gerber
  Location Photos		Vorder Giebel, family farm next to Langnau Vorder Giebel, family farm next to Langnau
  Family ID	F0016	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ida Hardmeier,   d. 13 Aug 1976
  Married	30 Jul 1921	Langnau (im Emmental), Bern, Switzerland   [2]
  	Lived in Reinach
  Children	1. Johann Gerber   2. Living   3. Living + 4. Paul Hermann Gerber,   b. ca 1927,   d. 6 Apr 1985  (Age 58 years)   5. Living   6. Living
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2013
  Family ID	F0001	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Married - 30 Jul 1921 - Langnau (im Emmental), Bern, Switzerland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  Gerber, Christian Photograph Photograph of Christian Gerber taken in 29 Jan 1983.

  
  

  Documents		Gerber, Fritz and Christian Gerber Postcard Postcard from Fritz Gerber to his brother, Christian
  		Gerber, Christian entry in photo album Entry in photo album identifying the death of Christian Gerber

  
  

  Location Photos

  Vorder Giebel Painting Painting of Vorder Giebel "Gibel". It was commissioned by Christian Gerber (I0018). Here are emailed notes from Peter Gerber (I0044) with corrections: I think I sent you a foto of a painting of the Gibel-farm by Otto Siegentaler (attached again) When I fotographed that painting, I thought the painter made the "Spycher" much too big.....see photo of yesterday from about the same place. Yesterday I asked John at Gibel about that. We showed him the painting (Marianne brought it with her), he was rather touched and told us, that he remebered the production of the painting. It was a brother of Ruedi Gerber, Christian Gerber from Reinach (I0018) who ordered the painting from a painter living in Reinach. The painter went to Gibel after the second world war (John doesn't remember the year, between 1945 and 1950) and made a first painting. The Spycher then was indeed much larger than now, about 3 meters larger at the right and the left and with another front. The roof was shingled ("Schindeln" in German), but damaged and the tiles to make it anew were stocked nearby. The painter painted also the stocks of tiles.....which didn't please Ruedi. So Ruedi asked the painter to leave away the stocked tiles....the painter then made at home three copies of the painting, one for Fritz, one for Christian and the third for a child of Christian. We don't know, where the other two copies and the first painting are now, certainly not at Gibel. John was rather touched looking at the painting and even remembered the trees painted (and what fruit they had, they are now no longer there). The "Spycher" has been made smaller since then, the wood for the enlargement was rather damaged from the "Hausbock" (an insect making holes in the wood).

  
  

• Notes

  According to Peter Gerber, he was known as 'Tricot Gerber', because he had a shop with clothes preferably made of 'Tricot', the Swiss name for Jersey fabric. Commissioned the painting of Giebel.

  
  

• Sources

  [S85] Schweizeriche Eidgenossenschaft, (Schweizeriche Eidgenossenschaft), Band und Blatt 21/2. [S85] Schweizeriche Eidgenossenschaft, (Schweizeriche Eidgenossenschaft), Band und Blatt 21/2, 28/226.