It was the end of the 19th century, specifically on October 12, 1891, when Frederic Schad arrived in this world. His father, Jacobo Schad, was a merchant originally from Zurich, and his mother was Ida Suter, who also had another daughter, Jeanne.
Schad lived his childhood in Zurich, and during his teenage years, he studied at a business college. When he was 18, he enlisted in the Swiss Army for the statutory period, an obligation for all male Swiss citizens. In 1910 he won honors, and a year late he moved to Italy, where he became part of a Swiss company dedicated to import and export, where his journey in international trade began.
The following year Schad went on a new mission to the Far East. From Manila, Philippines, he worked for six years traveling to Japan and China, doing business and knowing first-hand the dynamics of two giant markets on the map of world imports and exports.
La travesía en la vida profesional de Schad fue larga. Años más tarde, motivado por la sed de nuevas conquistas, cruzó el Atlántico y desembarcó en Nueva York, Estados Unidos, donde permaneció un tiempo trabajando. Fue en 1920 cuando emprendió un nuevo viaje, esta vez a República Dominicana, país que en ese momento se encontraba invadido por el ejército norteamericano.
Schad had read an advertisement in a newspaper requesting an assistant to work at the Consuelo sugar mill in San Pedro de Macorís, the land where the sugar cane was born, which launched the Dominican industry and opened it up to the international markets. The mission was to work as an assistant to Gaetan Bucher, a compatriot of his, who ran the commercial and storage part of the mill.
Schad only lasted a few months at the Consuelo sugar mill. By mutual agreement with Bucher, he decided to go to Santo Domingo, in the first quarter of 1922. At that time, seeing that the port of the same name and the oldest in the National Port System began to take on relevance, Schad established himself as a shipping agent and founded his company, which he named Frederic Schad.
