Adolphe Jordan

Adolphe Jordan (born July 11, 1845 in Granges-près-Marnand , † May 27, 1900 in Lausanne ; entitled to live in Granges-près-Marnand) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ).

biography

Jordan attended high school in Moudon and graduated from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich . After attending the forester school in Nancy , he graduated as a forestry expert in 1866. He then worked as a forest inspector from 1871 to 1879 and then from 1879 to 1883 as chief forest inspector of the canton of Vaud .

He began his political career as a councilor in Moudon. In the parliamentary elections in 1881 he was elected to the National Council, but in 1883 he was excluded from this council due to the separation of powers , because he served as the Vaudois State Council from 1883 to 1900 , where he was head of the building department. In 1884 and 1885 he was a member of the Constitutional Council of Vaud . In 1888 he was elected to the Council of States and served there as President of the Council of States in his last year in 1895/96 . In 1896 he was re-elected to the National Council and had a seat there until 1900.

Adolphe Jordan was one of the leading figures in Vaudois liberalism . In 1881 he founded the Vaudois Democratic Association and also presided over it. From 1894 to 1898 he was a member of the central committee of the FDP Switzerland.

In the Swiss Army he was a colonel in the infantry and from 1879 to 1883 chief judge at the military court .

Web links

• Laurent Tissot: Jordan, Adolphe. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .