Name: Paul Toggenburger
Born: January 27, 1917, in Martalen (Switzerland).
Died: November 26th, 1983, in Zuerich (Switzerland).
Biography:
Paul Toggenburger grew up in Martalen, the youngest of 5 children. His family owned a horse hair factory. He lost his dad at an early age to a car accident (it was the first car in the village). He went to primary school in Martalen where he had an attentive teacher who thought early on that he should go to gymnasium. The teacher taught him latin on the side. He to gymnasium in Winterthur for one year (1931) but returned the next year because it was too far away. He continued gymnasium in Schiers out of which he came with the matura, undernourishment and food poisening! After that he went to the "rekruten Schule" and became an officer (eventually an Ober Leutnant) in the Swiss army. At the same the he started to study law at the University of Zuerich. This is where he got to know Annelis, who was the sister of a friend in the same student organization. Because of the second world war he had to enter active duty and had to finish his studies during the leaves from the army.

Paul and Annelis married in 1947. They had two children, Hans (born in 1949), and Eva (born in 1952). Paul worked for a school board but was offered the Rotapfel Verlag by his father in law soon after (an offer Emil later regretted because it was a very hard business and Paul was not really a good business man). Originally the company was in Erlenbach but he moved it to Zuerich in about 1957. At this time, Paul also founded the Rotapfel Gallery, something which had always been a dream of his. In his younger years, Paul was a very enthusiastic moutaineer (he was also in the mountain infantry during the war).

In later years he had a lot of health issues for which reason later holidays where usually cultural ones to the mediteranian (Venice, Florence, Naples, Rome, Siena, Ravenna, Madrid and Toledo with the children). Paul and Annelis later also travelled to Greece as well as Paris on several occations. Paul enjoyed the exchanges with artists that his business allowed him. Some of the notable artists he worked with were Robert Hainard, Ernst Kreidolf, and Adolf Webber. The business however had always been a stressful endeavour, and in 1970s Hans started to take over some of it. Paul unexpectedly died in 1983, and the business was dissolved.