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Albert Ursprung (born August 16, 1862 in Ueken , † December 3, 1935 in Lausanne ) was a Swiss judge and politician ( FDP ). From 1890 to 1902 he represented the canton of Aargau in the National Council , after which he served as a federal judge for over three decades . His younger brother Gustav Adolf Ursprung was also a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of a farmer and miller attended the district school in Frick and then graduated from the canton school in Aarau . He then studied law at the universities in Basel and Munich . He financed part of his training with a prize he won at an exhibition in Vienna for his collection of geological and paleontological finds from the Fricktal . After being admitted to the bar, he took up a position as a clerk in Zurzach . In 1886 he became president of the district court there at the age of 24 . He was before this for six years, until the election to the Aargau High Court in 1892. In the Swiss Army he had the rank of lieutenant colonel .

Originally a political career, he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau in 1886 , to which he was a member for six years. At the cantonal level, he campaigned for the creation of a mortgage order, the introduction of the land register and the Aargau civil procedure code . He was also in charge of various projects at community and district level. These include the electricity and water supply and the Zurzach telephone network, the construction of new school buildings and the establishment of the district hospital in the premises of the former Johanniterkommende Leuggern . As president of the Poor Education Association, he devoted himself to welfare, and he also founded and presided over the non-profit society.

In the parliamentary elections in 1890 , Ursprung in the Aargau-Nord constituency was elected a member of the National Council. At the federal level, he dealt primarily with legal and military issues for the next twelve years. 1902 elected him Federal Assembly for federal judges . In the same year he received the honorary citizenship of Zurzach, in 1910 an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel. In 1918 and 1919 he served as President of the Federal Supreme Court. Origin remained federal judge until his death in 1935.

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. 792-794 .

Web links

• Patrick Zehnder: Origin, Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .