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Dr. Max Husmann

Dr. Max Husmann was a Russian born Swiss educator who founded Institut Montana Zugerberg, an international boarding school in Switzerland, on May, 3 1926. Dr. Husmann was born in Prokurow on March 9, 1888 and moved to Zurich, Switzerland in 1899 with his parents.

After completing the Swiss Matura, he studied engineering at the ETH (Federal Institut of Technology) in Zurich. He later decided to advance his knowledge in mathematics and thus transferred to the University of Zurich where he earned his Ph.D.

Prior to the foundation of Institut Montana, in 1918, he started his co-operation with August Merk, the founder and principal of the private university preparatory day school, Institut Minerva in Zurich. Institut Minerva had been founded in 1904.

While at Institut Minerva, he aimed to found a boarding school for younger students in the countryside

Husmann ran the school himself until 1946 when he appointed the school's first Director, Dr. Josef Ostermayer.