Albrecht Weyermann (politician)

Albrecht Weyermann in 1842

Albrecht Weyermann (born August 10, 1809 in Unterseen , † February 15, 1885 in Utzenstorf ) was a Swiss politician and reformed pastor . He was interim Chancellor for three months in 1847/48 , and from 1851 to 1857 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

Weyermann was the son of a notary. After the early death of his parents, he came to the orphanage in Bern , where he received his education. From 1826 he studied theology at the Bern Academy (forerunner of the University of Bern ). He took up his first job as a pastor in Binningen , where he was immediately involved in the fighting over the separation of the Basel cantons . As a staunch radical liberal, he took the side of the rebellious rural population. Weyermann was involved in the decisive battle at the Hülftenschanz , which resulted in the foundation of the canton of Basel-Landschaft . He stayed in Binningen until 1842, where he made the acquaintance of Georg Herwegh , among others . On the occasion of his farewell, a precious silver tribute goblet with an engraved coat of arms and the following inscription was dedicated to him: "Consecrated to the Rev. Weyermann in memory of his friends in Biningen. Neubad, September 6th, 1842."

Weyermann moved to the Gsteig parish near Interlaken in 1842 and became one of the most important radical liberal actors in the Bernese Oberland . In March 1845 he participated in the second free march to Lucerne . In 1846 he was a member of the Constitutional Council. In the same year he gave up the pastor's post after the government council of the canton of Bern had appointed him state clerk. On November 2, 1847, Josef Franz Karl Amrhyn resigned as Federal Chancellor because he did not want to sign the war resolution against the Sonderbund for reasons of conscience . The Federal Chancellery was leaderless, which is why the Diet assigned this task to Weyermann, the state clerk of the then suburb of Bern. He remained in office until his successor Johann Ulrich Schiess was elected on February 7, 1848.

After the conservatives came to power in the canton of Bern, Weyermann was dismissed as state clerk in 1850. He worked as a secretary in the Bernischer Volksverein, the radical collecting movement initiated by his friend Jakob Stämpfli ; He was also a freelancer at Stämpfli's “Berner-Zeitung”. In 1851 Weyermann founded a parquet factory in Interlaken together with Friedrich Seiler , which he ran as director until 1870. In 1851 Weyermann was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern, of which he was a member until 1854. He ran for the National Council elections in 1851 and was successful in the Oberland constituency . Six years later he was not re-elected. After working as a director in Interlaken, he worked as a pastor in Utzenstorf from 1870 until his death .

Weyermann's estate is in the Bern Burger Library .

Web links

• Christoph Zürcher: Weyermann, Albrecht. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Entry in the person lexicon of the canton of Basel-Landschaft

Individual evidence

1. ^ Elisabeth Bürki Gyger: Position and tasks of the Federal Chancellery in the Federal State of 1848. (PDF, 291 kB) (No longer available online.) 1996, p. 2 , archived from the original on October 3, 2015 ; accessed on December 23, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Albrecht Weyermann's estate in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern