Alexandre Thorin

Alexandre Thorin (born September 8, 1805 in Villars-sous-Mont , † February 13, 1873 in Bern ) was a Swiss politician and State Councilor of the canton of Friborg .

Life

Thorin was Catholic and from Villars-sous-Mont . His parents were Antoine Thorin and Marie geb. Grandjean. He came from the peasantry and married Mariette Aubonney, from Malapalud, municipality of Villars-le-Terroir ( canton of Vaud ). The couple had four daughters.

His biography is largely unknown. In 1845 he was a clerk in the Freiburg Oberamt. On June 30, 1848, he was elected in the second ballot with 36 of 63 votes as the successor to Karl-Friedrich Chatoney in the State Council, in which he headed the Directorate of the Interior until March 1852. In the Grand Council he passed the law of March 14, 1850 on the organization of an agricultural school, the law of May 25, 1850 on poverty and the decree of January 21, 1851, which created a commission for agriculture, industry and trade .

Thorin, who was one of the moderate, endured the tensions within the State Council badly. An affair came to light in early 1852. Two employees of the Interior Directorate had embezzled more than 12,000 francs without the director's knowledge. Thorin was accused by the Confédéré of rarely being in his State Council office. Although he had not drawn any personal advantage from this affair, he gave back his mandate and ran for the upper office of the Saane district . In a heated Council of State meeting, after several ballots, he was appointed senior bailiff with three votes to two with one abstention. His election aroused the ire of Folly and Schaller at the meeting and even led to a letter to the editor from the former in the Narrateur fribourgeois.

From 1852 to 1857 Thorin was the chief bailiff of the Saane district. He then moved to Bern, where he worked in the federal war commissioner. He died in 1873 at the age of 67. In Freiburg, where he was largely forgotten, no obituary appeared about him.

literature

• Georges Andrey , John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand et Nicolas Gex: The Freiburg Council of State: 1848–2011. History, organization, members . Editions La Sarine, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-2-88355-153-4 .