Adolf Christ

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Adolf Christ , also Adolf Christ-Sarasin (born January 31, 1807 in Basel , † October 18, 1877 ibid) was a Swiss politician .

Life

Adolf Christ was the eldest son of the tape manufacturer , city ​​councilor and councilor Remigius Christ (1783-1865) and his wife Gertrud (1788-1830), daughter of the tape manufacturer and councilor Johann Jacob Bischoff (1761-1825). He still had four siblings:

  • Gustav Christ (1809–1839), Dr. jur., university lecturer , married to Emilie Merian (1815–1839);
  • Gertrud Christ (1812-1839);
  • Marie Christ (1812–1839), married to the merchant Rudolf Iselin (1802–1864);
  • Rosina Christ married (1823–1909) to Rudolf Vischer (1813–1889).

After he had finished high school with the Matura , he began training as a tape manufacturer in his father's company in Basel and Lyon ; He then went on trips to France , Belgium , England , Germany and Italy .

From 1831 he was involved in social policy as a member of the Society for the Good and the Non-Profit Basel and campaigned, among other things, for the construction of workers' apartments.

From 1835 to 1847 he was a judge , most recently at the Basel Court of Appeal .

He also got involved in party politics and was a member of the Basel Grand Council from 1835 to 1877, and from 1847 to 1875 he was involved in the constitutional revision in the Small Council ; He was also President of the Judicial College and was responsible for the introduction of the land register and the mandatory health insurance as well as the rampage trial against the Baselland , in which the request of the canton of Basel to participate in the alleged profit, the Basel-Stadt from the conversion of the obsolete City fortifications that the entrenchments made into promenades .

As a member of the Education College he was an advocate of the university and as President of the School College he fought against church reform and the formation of an Orthodox pastorate, but was tolerant of the Catholic Church and the Jewish community. His commitment endeavored to promote the Basel Church and to keep it in its traditional form.

He procured the financial means for the construction of the mission house from 1858 to 1860 for the Basel Mission , of which he had been a member since 1840.

As an evangelical-conservative politician with great personal charisma, he was associated with the revival movement . Shaped by Christian Friedrich Spittler , he was considered the head of "pious Basel" in the decades between the creation of the modern federal state in 1848 and the first liberal Basel constitution in 1875. He was the role model and promoter of Rudolf Sarasin (1831–1905), who was also how his brother Karl Sarasin was committed to society and church politics.

As an employer, he stepped up for compulsory health insurance for the working population with state participation, although he was way ahead of his time in this regard.

Furthermore, Adolf Christ was the author of missionary biographies and other writings.

Adolf Christ was married to Carolina (1810–1861), daughter of the Basel mayor Felix Sarasin (1797–1862). They had four children together:

  • Caroline Christ (1838–1907), married to the tape manufacturer Daniel Heusler (1830–1910);
  • Maria Christ (1845–1945), married to Friedrich Suter (1833–1873), mother of the physician Friedrich Suter (1870–1961);
  • Adolf Christ (1846-1883);
  • Emanuel Christ (born 1850).

Memberships

  • Adolf Christ was a member of the Society for the Promotion of the Good and Charitable and from 1838 its chairman.
  • He was chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Christian Theological Science and Life , founded in 1836 , whose purpose was to establish a positive chair at the theological faculty of the University of Basel, which was too liberal for the members of the association. This also resulted in a friendship with the German theologian Johann Tobias Beck .
  • He was a member of the Basel Mission from 1840 and its Vice-President from 1849 to 1853 and its President from 1854 to 1877.
  • Adolf Christ was the first president of the German Swiss branch was founded in 1873 in 1875 with the branch of the French-speaking Switzerland for Swiss Evangelical Alliance united.
  • He sat on the committee of the Protestant Church Aid Association founded by Wilhelm Legrand (today: Protestant Solidarity Switzerland ).

Fonts (selection)

  • Schools and University in Basel: Clarifications . Basel: Schweighauser, 1851.
  • Missionary Hebich in front of the Great Council in Basel . Basel: Bahnmaier's printing press, 1860.
  • Felix Neff: the herald of the Gospel in the French high Alps . Basel: Verl. Christian Schriften, 1873.
  • Adolf Christ; Gottlieb Bischoff: Expert opinion on compulsory health insurance . Basel: Schweighauserische Buchdruckerei, 1874.
  • William Carey and his collaborators: the pioneers of the mission in the English East Indies . Basel Verlag der Missionsbuchhandlung 1877.
  • Confidential communication to evangelically minded members of our reformed regional church . Basel: Schulze, 1877.
  • William Wilberforce, the slave liberator . Basel 1877.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Descendants of Remigius Christ. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Martin Pernet: A conference on the social question in Basel 1869. In: Zwingliana 42 (2015), 249–277. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Sarasin, Rudolf. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Marcel PPLI: Protestant entrepreneurs in Switzerland of the 19th century: Christian patriarchy during the Industrial Revolution . S. 119. Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2012, ISBN 978-3-290-17621-1 ( google.de [accessed November 12, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Sarasin, Felix. Retrieved November 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Thomas K. Kuhn, Veronika Albrecht-Birkner: Between Enlightenment and Modernity: Awakening Movements as a Historiographical Challenge . P. 169 f. LIT Verlag Münster, 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13156-0 ( google.de [accessed on November 12, 2019]).
  7. ^ Thomas K. Kuhn: The young Alois Emanuel Biedermann: Life path and theological development up to "Free Theology" 1819-1844 . P. 111 f. Mohr Siebeck, 1997, ISBN 978-3-16-146714-1 ( google.de [accessed on November 12, 2019]).
  8. ^ Marlon Ronald Fluck: Basel Missionaries in Brazil: Emigration, Awakening and Becoming Church in the 19th Century . S. 196. Peter Lang, 2004, ISBN 978-3-03910-205-1 ( google.de [accessed November 12, 2019]).
  9. ^ History. In: Swiss Evangelical Alliance. Retrieved November 12, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  10. ↑ Bischoff, Gottlieb. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Christ, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christ-Sarasin, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1877
Place of death Basel