Paul Migy

Paul Migy (born September 14, 1814 in Pruntrut , † April 1, 1879 in Bern , resident in Saint-Ursanne and Pruntrut) was a Swiss politician .

biography

Migy attended the college in Pruntrut , then studied law at the universities of Bern and Vienna and obtained the advocacy patent in 1839 . He then also worked as an advocate from 1841 to 1844 and from 1852 to 1854 in Courtelary and from 1870 to 1875 in Pruntrut. From 1846 to 1850 and from 1875 to 1879 he worked as chief judge and from 1851 to 1852 as general procurator of the Swiss Confederation .

Paul Migy politicized as a radical councilor in the canton of Bern from 1845 to 1846 and was a member of the constitutional council in 1846 . For more than fifteen years, from 1854 to 1870, he was a member of the government of the Justice and Church Administration of the Canton of Bern. In 1848 Migy was elected to the Council of States by the Bernese population and had a seat there until 1851. In his last year in office he was also President of the Council of States . Three years later, more precisely in the parliamentary elections in 1854 , he was a member of the National Council , of which he was a member until 1878. He was President of the National Council in 1857.

Migy was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Berner Kantonalbank .

Web links

• Peter Stettler: Migy, Paul. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Federal Prosecutor of the Swiss Confederation 1851–1852	Jakob Amiet