Alfred Vonderweid

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Alfred Vonderweid

Alfred Vonderweid (born October 10, 1804 in Friborg ; † March 30, 1881 ibid) was a Swiss politician and State Councilor of the canton of Friborg .

biography

Vonderweid was a Catholic and came from a privileged bourgeoisie. His parents were Jacques-Philippe, Grand Councilor (1816–1831), member of the Secret Court (1828–1831) and Seckelmeister (1836–1845), and Joséphine nee. d'Andlau. He married Julia-Valentine de Couessin de Bois-Riou, from French nobility.

Vonderweid studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich . In 1840 he was Secretary of the Police Council, from 1841 to 1845 clerk at the Cantonal Court and from 1846 to 1847 State Chancellor. As an opponent of radicalism, he belonged to the committee of the People's Assembly of Posieux in 1852. He sat in the National Council from 1854 to 1872 and from 1856 to 1871 as a member of the Sense District in the Grand Council .

Political career

In the general election of the State Council on November 27, 1855, the radicals elected seven of their own, but Georges Clément and Joseph Wicky rejected their mandate. Since the radicals needed support for their railway policy, the Grand Council elected the Liberal Conservatives von der Weid (in the second ballot with 36 of 63 votes) and François-Xavier Bondallaz on November 28th .

Vonderweid headed the newly created cultural directorate. By adopting the decree of November 17, 1856, he managed to end the conflicts with the Catholic Church, since this decree approved the modus vivendi agreed with the ecclesiastical authorities . This enabled Bishop Marilley, who had been driven out by the radical regime, to return. "Bishop against railroad" may have been said by some. Vonderweid profited from the regime change to leave the cultural directorate (1856-1857) and take over the police and war directorate (1857-1865). From 1841 to 1845 in the federal general staff , he became colonel of the artillery in 1861 . Under him the law of December 18, 1858 on military organization and the law of June 3, 1863 on subsidies for rifle clubs were passed. In 1864 he ran unsuccessfully as a Federal Councilor .

As a State Councilor, Vonderweid was involved in the creation of the Bern – Friborg – Lausanne railway line . He supported the efforts of Julien Schaller , Rodolphe Weck-Bussy and Louis de Weck-Reynold by successfully undertaking missions in Paris and London to find capital. From 1859 to 1872 he sat on the board of directors of the Lausanne – Friborg – Berne railway company .

After resigning from the State Council, he was director of the Western Railway Company (1865–1872) and a member of its operating committee (1865–1871 and 1872–1874). He devoted a lot of time to his military activities and he was also secretary of the Freiburg Agricultural Association.

As a typical representative of the liberal wing of the liberal-conservatives, he stood in opposition to the radicals, but also fought the ultra-conservative and ultra- montane tendencies in his own party. In particular, he supported the draft of the revision of the Federal Constitution of 1872, which the conservatives opposed.

In 1881 he chaired the organizing committee for the Swiss Federal Shooting Festival in Freiburg when he died at the age of 77.

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  1. ↑ Urs Altermatt : Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel . In: Urs Altermatt (Ed.): Das Bundesratslexikon . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 , p. 113 .
personal data
SURNAME Vonderweid, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weid, Alfred von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and State Councilor for the Canton of Friborg
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1881
Place of death Freiburg