Alois Wyrsch

Alois Wyrsch (born June 15, 1825 in Borneo , Dutch East Indies , † March 6, 1888 in Buochs ) was a Swiss politician . He represented the canton of Nidwalden in the National Council from 1860 to 1872 , and was a member of the Nidwalden government for almost three decades .

biography

Wyrsch spent the first years of his life on Borneo , where his father Louis Wyrsch worked in the service of the Netherlands as a military and civil commander. His mother Johanna van den Berg was a Malay from Java . After her death in 1832, he moved to Buochs in the canton of Nidwalden . His half-brother Jakob Konstantin Wyrsch , who later became a Councilor, comes from his father's second marriage to Theresia Stockmann .

From 1839 Wyrsch worked as a miller in Ennetbürgen , from 1850 he was the owner of another mill in Alpnach . In 1845 he married the farmer's daughter Franziska Christen, in 1860 he married Margareth Zelger, daughter of the hospital owner and Comrade Bailiff Benedikt Zelger. In 1856 the troops Nidwaldner Wyrsch chose the commander of the battalion 74. Two years later he was elected a member of the Governing Council , where it twelve times the office of 1859-1888 Landamman held. At the same time he was a member of the Buochs council from 1865 to 1888 . As a representative of the moderate liberals, Wyrsch ran successfully in the National Council elections in 1860 , after which he was a member of the National Council for twelve years . In 1865 he gave up the miller profession and from then on worked as a lawyer .

Web links

• Erich Aschwanden: Wyrsch, Alois. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Alois Wyrsch on the website of the Federal Assembly

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin Schleifer: Wyrsch, Louis. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 4, 2013 , accessed April 30, 2020 .
2. ↑ Nadia Christians: Wyrsch, Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 5, 2013 , accessed April 30, 2020 .

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