Edouard Secretan

Monument to Edouard Secretan in Lausanne

Édouard Secretan (born September 4, 1848 in The Hague , † October 12, 1917 in Lausanne , resident in Lausanne) was a Swiss politician and editor .

biography

Secretan graduated from the University of Lausanne with a law degree in 1870 and was admitted to the bar in 1876 . He worked from 1871 to 1874 as a secretary at the Federal Political Department and was a correspondent for the Gazette de Lausanne in Bern . He worked there from 1874 to 1917 as editor-in-chief. Secretan led the newspaper to one of the most important newspapers in the Swiss media landscape , it was considered the leading newspaper of the liberal opposition to the radical government. In 1900, Édouard Secretan was one of the founding members of the Swiss Press Association . From 1906 to 1918 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Dispatch Agency .

In 1886 Secretan was elected to the municipal council of the city of Lausanne, was on the constitutional council from 1884 to 1885 and from 1893 was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud . In 1901 he resigned from his previous offices, as he was elected to the National Council for his canton in 1899 . He stayed there until his death. He was committed to the Swiss homeland security , proportional voting , the repurchase of the railways by the federal government and the Gotthard Convention . Around the time of the First World War , when the Röstigraben was getting bigger and bigger, Secretan was particularly committed to French-speaking Switzerland . He was a key figure, especially in the Obersten affair .

In the Swiss Army he had the degree of a Colonel Division .

Web links

• Olivier Meuwly: Edouard Secretan. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Édouard Secretan on the website of the Federal Assembly