Albrecht Rengger

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Albrecht Rengger (* 1764 in Gibstorf ; † December 23, 1835 in Aarau ) was a Swiss doctor and an important politician in the Helvetic Republic and the canton of Aargau .

biography

Albrecht Rengger was the son of the pastor Abraham Rengger (1732–1794) from Brugg , who worked first in Gibstorf and later at the Bern Minster . First he studied theology, later medicine in Göttingen , where he had gone with Samuel Friedrich Lüthardt , among others , and Pavia . In 1788 he received the title of Dr. med. and started working as a doctor in Bern. As a member of the Helvetic Society , he also campaigned for a renewal of the Swiss Confederation and welcomed the French Revolution .

On January 30, 1798, Rengger von Brugg was elected to the enlarged Grand Council of the City and Republic of Bern and ended his work as a doctor. After the Helvetic Revolution, he was first elected President of the Supreme Court of the Helvetic Republic on May 20, 1798 , but switched to the office of Minister of the Interior on June 2. As a minister, he promoted numerous progressive projects, such as B. the institution of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in Stans . Rengger was involved as a Unitarian in the second coup on August 7, 1800 and was sent to Paris in January 1801 with the Unitarian draft constitution. There he received the so-called Malmaison constitution from Napoléon Bonaparte as a counter-draft and had to deliver it to the Swiss authorities. After the federal third coup d'état on October 17, 1801, Rengger had to resign as Minister of the Interior. On November 6, 1802 he was elected as the second Landammann of Switzerland and, after the renewed Unitarian coup d'état from April 17, 1802 until the end of the Helvetic Republic in 1803, served as minister again.

After Napoleonic intervention in the autumn of 1802, Rengger withdrew from politics and practiced as a doctor in Lausanne until 1814. In 1814 he worked on the new Aargau constitution and represented the interests of Aargau at the Congress of Vienna against the claims of Bern. The city of Aarau granted him citizenship in December 1814 and in June 1815 he was elected as a representative of the city in the Aargau Grand Council , so that he moved his residence to Aarau. In the canton of Aargau, Albrecht Rengger's second political career led him to the Aargau government from 1815 to 1820. He then lived as a private citizen in Aarau until his death and devoted himself to geognostic studies and the upbringing of the children of his deceased brother. Johann Rudolf Rengger received special funding after an eight-year study trip to South America, who under the guidance of his uncle published two works on Paraguay .

The extensive estate of Albrecht Rengger is in the Aargau State Archives .

literature

  • Ferdinand Wydler (Ed.): Life and correspondence of Albrecht Rengger, Minister of the Interior of the Helvetian Republic , 2 volumes, Schultheß, Zurich 1847.
  • "Albrecht Rengger". In: Gallery of famous Swiss of modern times. With pictures by Fr. and H. Hasler. With biographical text by Alfred Hartmann . Vol. 1. Orell Füssli, Zurich 1882, 50.
  • Heinrich Flach: Dr. Albrecht Rengger: a contribution to the history of the Helvetic Revolution and the Helvetic . Sauerlander, Aarau 1898.
  • Historisch-Bibliographisches Lexikon der Schweiz , Vol. 5, Neuchâtel 1929, p. 584.
  • Emanuel Hüni: The medical correspondence between Paul Usteri and Albrecht Rengger: a contribution to the history of medicine at the end of the 18th century . Tschopp, Zurich 1930.
  • Otto Hunziker :  Rengger, Albrecht R. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 215-220.
  • Andreas Steigmeier:  Rengger, Johann Albrecht. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 425 ( digitized version ).
  • W. von Wartburg: Albrecht Rengger In: Argovia, annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau. Vol. 65, 1953, pp. 60-77

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personal data
SURNAME Rengger, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Gibstorf , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1835
Place of death Aarau