Alfred von Planta
Alfred von Planta (born April 1, 1857 at Reichenau Castle, Reichenau , municipality of Tamins ; † March 2, 1922 in Davos ) was a Swiss lawyer , diplomat , industrialist and politician .
biography
Alfred von Planta was born as the son of the agricultural chemist and beekeeper Adolf von Planta from the Graubünden noble family of the Planta and Ursina Maria von Muralt . After dropping the Matura examination at the Grisons cantonal school in Chur , he studied at the universities of Freiburg , Lausanne , Heidelberg , Leipzig and Zurich law . In Zurich he joined the Corps Helvetia Zurich . In 1883 he completed his studies with a doctorate to become Dr. iur. from.
After completing his studies, he was first secretary of the legation in Vienna from 1884 to 1885 before settling as a lawyer in Reichenau in 1885 . Between 1885 and 1895 he was district judge and from 1886 to 1896 district judge.
Political activity
From 1889 to 1903 he belonged to the circle of Trin the Grand Council of the canton of Grisons on, from 1893 to 1897 as its president.
After the parliamentary elections in 1896 he was a member of the National Council until 1914 , at times also as parliamentary group president . In 1914 he was President of the National Council.
As a staunch federalist, von Planta was one of the leading Graubünden federal democrats. In 1903 he joined the non-denominational Conservative Democratic Party. He was instrumental in the expansion of the Rhaetian Railway and a privately organized Graubünden hydropower industry. In 1913 he argued against accepting the Gotthard Treaty .
Diplomatic career
After his parliamentary work, von Planta entered the diplomatic service. From 1915 to 1918 he was envoy to Rome and from 1919 to 1922 to Berlin. In Berlin, on behalf of the federal government, he acquired the property on Otto-von-Bismarck-Allee in the Spreebogen, where the Swiss embassy is still based today. When von Planta rushed to his son's bedside in Davos in February 1922, he could only take the dead son in his arms. Two days later he died of mourning himself. Gaston Carlin was appointed to succeed the late envoy .
Working in the Graubünden economy
Von Planta was one of the founders of the Rhaetian Works in Thusis . Posthumously he was attributed complicity in the failure of the Bündner Kraftwerke in 1923. Between 1905 and 1915 he was president of the Brusio power plants. The three power plant companies merged in 2000 to form Rätia Energie AG .
From 1889 to 1901 he was a member of the board of directors of the United Swiss Railways. From 1897 to 1915 he was a member of the board of directors of the Rhaetian Railway , from 1905 its president. In addition, he held numerous mandates in banking , insurance and the tourism industry .
Web links
- Jürg Simonett: Planta, Alfred von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Planta, Alfred von in the Dodis databaseof diplomatic documents in Switzerland
- Newspaper article about Alfred von Planta in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 144 , 2.
- ↑ Paul Widmer, 150 Years: The Swiss Flag in the Heart of Berlin , 2017, pp. 8–9.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Giovanni Battista Pioda |
Swiss envoy in Rome 1914–1918 |
Georges Wagnière |
| Philippe Mercier |
Swiss envoy in Berlin 1919–1922 |
Gaston Carlin |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Planta, Alfred von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Planta, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss lawyer, diplomat, industrialist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reichenau Castle, Reichenau , Tamins community |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1922 |
| Place of death | Davos |