Peter Bernauer

Peter Bernauer was brought up in Rickenbach, Baden-Württemberg. As a youngster he played Basketball for his local club and was called into the Germany national team. He played his youth football at the small club FC Bergalingen. Later he moved to FC Wehr 1912 and started his senior football career by SV 08 Laufenburg. After good performances for Laufenburg, Peter Bernauer trained on a trial basis with FC Aarau under head-coach Ottmar Hitzfeld. But at that time, the Aarau squad already had Uwe Wassmer and two other foreigners on their payroll, therefore for Bernauer, a commitment didn't work out. Bernauer joined the FC Basel's first team in their 1987–88 season and signed his first professional contract under head-coach Urs Siegenthaler. After playing in four test games, Bernauer played his domestic league debut for his new club in the first match of the season, an away match on 8 August 1987 as Basel were defeated 0–1 by Aarau. His team mates included goalie Urs Suter, defender Massimo Ceccaroni, and Swiss national team players such as Adrian Knup, Dominique Herr and Peter Nadig. Despite this personally strongly occupied team Basel were relegated to the Nationalliga B after the 1987–88 Nationalliga A season. Bernauer scored his first goal for his club in the Swiss Cup match on 13 November 1988. It was an away game and it was the winning goal as Basel won 1–0 after extra time against lower tier FC Töss. He scored his first league goal for his club on 27 November in the home…

Bernauer studied at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach. He worked one year as assistant to the management of Comco Commercial Cooperation. In 1993 he moved on to Henkel as Head of Finance, Business Controller and Head of Back Office and Logistics. Since 2005 he works for ASM Aerosol-Service AG, a pharmaceutical company in Möhlin, first as chief financial officer and since 2014 as chief executive officer.