Edouard Carlin

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Édouard Carlin (born June 26, 1817 in Moutier , † June 21, 1870 in Rang-lès-L'Isle ) was a Swiss politician , judge and legal scholar . From 1854 until his death he was a member of the National Council. He was also a federal judge ( President of the Federal Supreme Court in 1869).

biography

Carlin was the son of a French police officer who had settled in Moutier as a farmer. He attended secondary school in Delsberg and high schools in Solothurn and Bern . From 1837 he studied law at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau , Bern and Paris . In 1840 he was naturalized in the municipality of Pleigne , a year later he passed the state examination. From 1842 Carlin worked as a lawyer in Delsberg . In 1858 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern. In the military he last had the rank of major on the judicial staff.

In 1846 Carlin was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern . In the same year he played a major role in the new cantonal constitution, which fulfilled numerous radical liberal demands. Carlin lost his seat on the Grand Council in 1850, but returned to the cantonal parliament a year later. Later he was the first Jurassian to hold the office of Grand President. In 1854 he refused to be elected chief judge , twice (1858 and 1862) also that of government council . Although Catholic himself, he and Xavier Stockmar were seen as leaders of the liberal, anti-clerical and anti- separatist opposition in the Bernese Jura. For example, he supported the ban on teaching religious members in public schools and the reduction of Catholic holidays. He also campaigned for railroad construction.

In September 1850, Carlin tried to mediate the affair around Herrmann Basswitz , who had been deposed as a councilor of Saint-Imier by the conservative cantonal government for anti-Semitic reasons and against the will of the population . Carlin ran in the National Council elections in 1854 and was elected in the constituency of Jura . During the Savoy trade of 1860, 30 gunmen hijacked a steamship on Lake Geneva and tried to instigate a pro-Swiss uprising in Thonon-les-Bains and Évian-les-Bains ; On behalf of the Federal Council , Carlin mediated the "Perrier Affair" and was able to avert an armed conflict with France.

Carlin played an important role in the editing of the Bern civil law and the federal commercial code (forerunner of the Code of Obligations ). In the 1860s, he campaigned for a revision of the federal constitution . In 1866 he was elected a member of the Federal Supreme Court , which he presided over in 1869. In 1868 he resigned as a councilor and took over the chair for French civil law at the University of Bern . He remained a member of the National Council until his death.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robin Moschard: Bass joke (affair). Dictionnaire du Jura, April 30, 2012, accessed January 3, 2015 (French).
  2. ^ Rita Stöckli: Savoy trade. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Carlin, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and judge
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Moutier
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1870
Place of death Rang-lès-L'Isle