Adolf Gloor

Adolf Gloor (born April 6, 1884 in Lenzburg , † June 7, 1944 in Aarau ; entitled to live in Birrwil ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ) and trade unionist . From 1939 until his death he represented the canton of Aargau in the National Council .

biography

The eighth of ten children of the dyer Jakob Gloor received their school education in Lenzburg and completed an apprenticeship as a bookbinder . His years of travel led Gloor after Grenchen , St. Gallen and finally to Strasbourg , where he met with the labor movement came into contact and solidarity with this. After returning to Switzerland, he practiced his profession in Aarburg and later in Aarau .

In 1907 Gloor joined the Grütliverein , a trade union organization affiliated with the SP. He acquired advertisements for the social democratic newspaper Der Freie Aargauer . From 1918 he worked as the secretary of the leather workers 'association, after its dissolution in 1924 as an insurance agent and finally from 1938 as the cantonal workers' secretary.

Gloor presided over the Social Democratic Party of the Canton of Aargau from 1919 to 1922. From 1921 he was a member of the Aargau Grand Council and presided over it in 1942/43; He was alternately a member of the State Accounts Commission and the Audit Commission. In 1939 he was elected to the National Council , of which he was a member until his death.

literature

• Biographical Lexicon of the Canton of Aargau 1803–1957 . In: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau (Ed.): Argovia . tape 68/69 . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1958, p. 264 .

Web links

• Andreas Steigmeier : Gloor, Adolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .