Albert Locher (politician, 1849)

Albert Locher (born January 7, 1849 in Stallikon , † July 5, 1914 in Zurich ) was a Swiss politician ( DP ), reformed pastor and journalist . From 1888 to 1893 he was a member of the National Council, from 1905 until his death he was a member of the Council of States . In addition, from 1893 he was a member of the government of the Canton of Zurich for more than two decades .

biography

The son of a dean studied theology at the University of Zurich . After ordination in 1871, he was initially a curator . From 1873 to 1877 he worked as a pastor in Altikon , then until 1880 in Wülflingen . During this time he was an editor at the Volksblatt of the Andelfingen district. From 1880 until 1893 he worked as an editor for the Landbote in Winterthur . Locher belonged to the democratic movement and was elected to the cantonal council in 1879 for the constituency of Wülflingen-Töss . He presided over the Cantonal Council in the year 1892/93. In 1888 he ran a by-election in the National Council constituency of Zurich-East and was elected to succeed the late Friedrich Salomon Vögelin .

1891/92 Locher was the central president of the Grütliverein . In 1893 he resigned as a national councilor after he had been elected to the government council. He initially headed the Department of the Interior, from 1899 to 1905 and from 1914 the Department of Education and from 1905 to 1911 the Department of Economics. As a leading figure in the Democratic Party of the Canton of Zurich, Locher brought closer to the Zurich FDP and was vice-president of the Swiss FDP from 1907 to 1911. In 1904 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich. From 1905 Locher was in addition to his government office also a representative of the Canton of Zurich in the Council of States .

Web links

• Markus Bürgi: Locher, Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Albert Locher in the Winterthur Glossary.