History
• 1840: Opening of the small « Pension Faller » located in an Engadine farmhouse.
• 1856: Johannes Badrutt acquires Pension Faller.
• 1860: Extension of the Hotel.
• 1886: Extension of the Hotel through the construction of the Western part (Westkulm) under the architect Nicolaus Hartmann sen.
• 1889: Death of Johannes Badrutt.
• 1892: Son Caspar Badrutt leaves the Kulm Hotel and builds the Palace Hotel.
• 1911: Extension of the Kulm under architect Nicolaus Hartmann jun.
• 1928: Olympic Winter Games.
• 1935: Anton Robert Badrutt (grandson of Johannes Baddrutt) becomes General Manager of the Hotel.
• 1940: Reopening of the Kulm.
• 1948: Olympic Winter Games.
• 1956: Acquisition of the Hotel Kulm and the Hotel Carlton by Albert Ernst von Pfyffer, (owner of the Palace Hotel in Lucerne).
• 1968: Starvos Niarchos is part of a group, Grandhotels Engadinerkulm that buys the Hotel preventing a takeover of the Hotel by Club Mediterannée. (Club Mediterannée had just bought 2 Hotels in St Moritz Bad and also wanted to buy the Kulm, the Carlton and the Hotel Chanatrella).
• 1971: Sale of the Hotel Carlton.
• 2004 Mai 1: Acquisition of the Grand Hotel Kronenhof.
Management
Johannes Badrutt (1856-1889)
Peter Robert Badrutt (1889-1907)
Anton Robert Badrutt (1935-1967)
Fred Herrling (1967-1972)
Heinz Hunkeler Sr (1972-2002)
Dominique Nicolas Godard (2002-2013)
Jenny and Heinz E Hunkeler (since 2013)
Article by « Grand Hotels of the World & VB.com », written from « Cremerie de Paris ».
