Edouard Dapples

Édouard Dapples (born December 12, 1807 in Lausanne , † April 30, 1887 in Nice , resident in Bremblens ) was a liberal Swiss politician .

biography

Dapples studied theology and philosophy at the Akadémie de Lausanne from 1825 to 1831 . However, he did not complete these courses. He then studied forestry in Bayreuth for health reasons . In the years 1833-1840 he was district chief forester of Côte and from 1840 to 1842 of Lausanne, where he was then from 1848 to 1851 forest inspector . From 1851 he was employed as a reindeer .

Dapples held his first political office when he was on the municipal council of Lausanne from 1834 to 1842 . In 1843 he was elected mayor , and in 1844 in the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud selected. He held the office of mayor until 1848 and that of the Grand Council until 1845. Two years later, in 1847, he resumed his work as a councilor. In the parliamentary elections in 1851 , Dapples was elected to the National Council. He held this office until 1866, with an interruption in the years 1854–1857. In 1861 he even presided over the United Federal Assembly . In 1866 he ended his mandate in the National Council and was then a Grand Councilor for two years, whose office he had never given up since 1847.

Dapples was friends with the Swiss engineer William Fraisse and played an important role in the creation of the western Swiss railway network. From 1865–1866 he was a member of the board of directors at Chemin de fer Lausanne – Friborg – Berne and in 1871 at Compagnie de l'Ouest Suisse .

In order to represent Switzerland's intentions in the Savoy trade , the Federal Council sent him as Ambassador Extraordinary to Berlin and St. Petersburg in 1860 .

Apples was very popular in Lausanne and contributed significantly to the development of the city. During his active time as a politician, he campaigned for the expansion of the road network, gas lighting and gas factories. As a patron , he also contributed to the expansion of the city by supporting the children's hospice and the quay in Ouchy . He owned, among other things, the Grand-Montriond, the Crissier Castle , which he bought from the Curchod inheritance, and other buildings in Lausanne and Nice .

To honor his services to Lausanne, the city dedicated the avenue Édouard-Dapples south of the train station in the Sous-Gare / Ouchy district to him .

literature

• Alville (di: Alix de Watteville): Des cours princières aux demeures helvétiques . Éditions la Concorde, Lausanne 1962.
• Erich Gruner: The Swiss Federal Assembly. 1848-1920. Volume 1: Biographies. = Biographies . Francke, Bern 1966, p. 796 f . ( Helvetia politica A 1, ISSN  0073-182X ).
• Louis Polla: De Saint Etienne au général Guisan. Louis Polla raconte la vie de cent personnages qui ont donné leur nom aux rues de Lausanne . Éditions 24 Heures, Lausanne 1981, ISBN 2-8265-0050-3 , p. 113-115 .

Web links

• Hugues Renaud: Dapples, Edouard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The presidents of the National Council since 1848. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 10, 2016 ; Retrieved August 31, 2009 .