Adrien-Félix Pottier

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Adrien-Félix Pottier (born October 5, 1792 in Monthey ; † July 28, 1855 there ) was a Swiss politician and judge . From 1848 until his death he was a member of the National Council.

biography

Pottier graduated from the college in Saint-Maurice and worked as a lawyer and notary from around 1816 . In 1835 he was one of the co-founders of Junge Schweiz , a political movement inspired by Giuseppe Mazzini . This radical liberal organization, whose first president was Pottier, sought, among other things, the complete political equality of the then dominant Upper Valais and the disadvantaged Lower Valais. Pottier, then Mayor of Monthey, was a member of the Constitutional Council in 1839, which drafted a new liberal cantonal constitution. In 1840 he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Valais and appointed court president of the Monthey district.

Pottier was considered an uncompromising radical liberal and was constantly in conflict with the Catholic conservatives, who were unwilling to give up their traditional privileges. In 1843 he was a member of the Comitée de Martigny , a political renewal movement that wanted to enforce democratic principles in Valais. On May 21, 1844, irregulars from Young Switzerland suffered a heavy defeat in the battle on Trento near Vernayaz , whereupon the conservatives seized power. Pottier and other radical liberal exponents had to flee into exile and held out in the neighboring canton of Vaud . After the surrender of the Valais in the Sonderbund War , they returned to their homeland at the end of November 1847.

Pottier immediately resumed his duties as court president of Monthey. Also in 1847 he was elected to the Grand Council for the second time. From 1848 to 1850 and from 1853 to 1855 he served as councilor for Monthey. In October 1848 he ran in the first national council elections and was elected in the constituency of Lower Valais . He was re-elected to the National Council twice in a row.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrea Weibel: Young Europe. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Le Comité de Martigny. Valais libre, February 15, 2012, accessed December 1, 2014 (French).
  3. ↑ La bataille du Trento: une guerre civile enflamme le pays. (PDF, 108 kB) Le Courrier, July 5, 2014, accessed on December 1, 2014 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Pottier, Adrien-Félix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and judge
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Monthey
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1855
Place of death Monthey