Adolf von Steiger
Alfred Armand Adolf von Steiger (born July 25, 1859 in Bern ; † March 1, 1925 there , entitled to live in Bern) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ) and lawyer .
From 1900 to 1918 he was Mayor of Bern and from 1919 to 1925 Federal Chancellor .
biography
The son of a senior librarian from the old patrician family of Bern studied law at the universities of Bern , Leipzig and Geneva . From 1884 to 1893 he ran a law firm in Bern. After two years as a substitute judge, he was a member of the Bern Higher Court from 1893 . In 1900 he was elected mayor of Bern as a representative of the Liberals. In addition, he was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern from 1903 to 1917 and a Council of States from 1908 to 1918.
In 1918, von Steiger began his professional activity in the Federal Chancellery as Vice Chancellor . The following year, he chose the Federal Assembly for Chancellor . In doing so, he asserted himself against the Catholic-conservative Solothurn National and Council of States Siegfried Hartmann . When he took office, a new law on the Federal Chancellery came into force, relieving the Federal Chancellor of keeping minutes in the National Council. In 1925, von Steiger died of a stroke while in office .
See also
Web links
- Christoph Zürcher: Adolf von Steiger. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Portrait on the website of the Federal Chancellery
Jean-Marc Mousson | Josef Franz Karl Amrhyn | Albrecht Weyermann (interim) | Johann Ulrich Schiess | Gottlieb Ringier | Hans Schatzmann | Adolf von Steiger | Robert Käslin | George Bovet | Oskar Leimgruber | Charles Oser | Karl Huber | Walter Buser | François Couchepin | Annemarie Huber-Hotz | Corina Casanova | Walter Thurnherr
Karl Zeerleder (1832–1848) | Friedrich Ludwig Effinger (1849–1863) | Christoph Albert Kurz (1864) | Rudolf Otto von Büren (1864–1888) | Eduard Müller (1888–1895) | Franz Lindt (1895–1899) | Adolf von Steiger (1900–1918) | Gustav Müller (1918–1920) | Hermann Lindt (1920–1937) | Ernst Bärtschi (1937–1951) | Otto Steiger (1952–1958) | Eduard Freimüller (1958–1966) | Reynold Tschäppät (1966–1979) | Werner Bircher (1979–1992) | Klaus Baumgartner (1993-2004) | Alexander Tschäppät (2005–2016) | Alec von Graffenried (since 2017)
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| SURNAME | Steiger, Adolf von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steiger, Alfred Armand Adolf von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician (FDP) and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1925 |
| Place of death | Bern |