XAVIER KESSLER

Born 27th February 1882 - Died

 

 

He was born on 27th February 1882 in Kuessnacht am Rigi, Switzerland. Not long thereafter his family moved to Luzern, where he was schooled and subsequently took up a management position with the Gotthardbahn. In 1908 her accepted an important post in the hotel group CIGA in their Excelsior hotels in Rome and Naples. During this time, in 1923, he met and married Esme Marie, a daughter of John Le Grand Jacob. In 1927 he returned to Luzern to work at the Grand Hotel National for 19 years. He was a very keen mountaineer and over a period of 56 years ascended very many peaks of some renown. Xavier and Esme had children:

1 Peter, born in 1921.
2 Doris, born in 1925, who married the artist Hans Erni.

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Peter and Doris Kessler

 

 


Xavier and Esme Kessler

 

 

 

Source:

Jacob MSS
Information and photographs supplied by Janine Kessler