Alois de Latour

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Alois de Latour (born August 5, 1805 in Breil / Brigels , † August 11, 1875 ibid) was a Swiss politician and judge . From 1848 to 1851, from 1854 to 1857 and from 1863 to 1869 he was a member of the National Council, and in 1861/62 he was a member of the Council of States . He was also a member of the government council of the canton of Graubünden several times .

biography

He came from the Latour dynasty , which was one of the most influential patrician families of the Three Leagues . His father Christian was a farmer and major. Alois de Latour completed high school at the Jesuit colleges in Solothurn and Lucerne , then studied law at the universities of Heidelberg , Berlin and Jena . In 1824 he joined the Zofingia . After graduating, Latour worked as a lawyer in his home town of Breil / Brigels .

Latour held several judicial offices. From 1833 to 1843 he was an appeal judge for the Upper Confederation. In the years 1834 to 1839 and 1846 to 1851 he was a member of the Graubünden Court of Appeal. From 1864 to 1869 he was a canton judge . He was also a district judge several times between 1838 and 1863. In 1835 he was president of the Catholic school association in 1835 and from 1839 to 1845 he was president of the cantonal education council, which was composed on an equal footing. As a leading figure among the liberal Catholics, Latour campaigned for a mixed-denominational primary school and for the merging of the previously denominational high schools ( realized in 1850 in the form of the Bündner Kantonsschule ). As a result, the Surselva split into a liberal-Catholic and an ultramontane camp around 1850 .

In 1831 Latour was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Graubünden , to which he belonged with interruptions until 1867; In 1842 and 1852 he was the state president (equivalent to a grand council president in other cantons). From 1834 to 1836 he served as Landammann of the Cadi . The Grand Council elected him several times to the government council . He belonged to this in the years 1838, 1840, 1842, 1844, 1847, 1852, 1855/56, 1859/60 and 1863.

In October 1848, Latour ran in the first parliamentary elections and was elected in the Graubünden-West constituency. In 1851 he decided not to be re-elected and then in 1854 again entered the National Council for three years. The Grand Council appointed him for the period between July 1861 and June 1862 as a representative in the Council of States. After a six-year break he ran again successfully in the National Council elections in 1863, but was voted out of office in 1869. Latour was particularly concerned with transport policy. From 1865 until his death he sat on the board of directors of the United Swiss Railways . He also campaigned for the construction of a road through the Surselva (including a branch to his home town of Breil / Brigels).

Alois de Latour was related by marriage to Caspar de Latour and Remigius Peterelli , who were both influential politicians.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Members of the government of the canton of Graubünden from 1803 to 2014. (PDF, 131 kB) Graubünden registry office, 2014, accessed on December 9, 2014 .
  2. ^ History. Breil / Brigels, accessed December 9, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Latour, Alois de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and judge
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Breil / Brigels
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1875
Place of death Breil / Brigels