André Castella

André Castella (born November 18, 1805 in Friborg ; † November 6, 1873 ibid) was a Swiss politician and State Councilor of the canton of Friborg .

Life

Castella was Catholic and from Freiburg and Gruyères . He was the grandson of the lawyer Jean-Nicolas-André Castella (1739–1807), one of the leaders in the Chenaux trade in 1781. His parents were François-Joseph Castella, lawyer and landowner, and Thérèse nee. Zbinden, of keeping right . His son, Félix Castella (1836–1901), became a doctor in 1858 and practiced at the Freiburg Citizens' Hospital; In 1864 he was one of the founders of the Freiburg fertilizer factory.

Castella attended Father Girard's school and studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Bonn and Berlin. From 1831 to 1847 and from 1857 to 1873 he worked as a lawyer. In 1831 he became a lawyer for the German-speaking part of the Freiburg district. In the military, he last held the rank of cantonal colonel . Castella worked for the liberal Journal du Canton de Friborg, but developed from liberalism to radicalism. From 1833 to 1847 he was councilor of the city of Freiburg, from 1840 to 1862 he was a radical councilor. He was president of the Freiburg section of the Swiss National Association. As a member of the Provisional Government from November 1847, he headed the police department. On March 8, 1848 he was elected as the fifth State Councilor and on November 27, 1955, with 53 out of 61 votes, he was re-elected to the second rank of government. Castella was close to Julien Schaller and the extreme radicals, whom their enemies described as "Schallerei". In 1850 and 1856 he presided over the State Council.

Castella was police director (1848-1850), police and cultural director (1850-1856) and police and war director (1856-1857). As such, he passed the law of January 21, 1849 on police headquarters, the law of March 16, 1852 on the organization of the gendarmerie corps and the service regulations of the gendarmerie of November 29, 1852. In the health sector, he was responsible for the law of May 28, 1850 on the health police and the regulations of November 26, 1851 on examinations for people who want to practice the art of healing. Castella was a member of the Council of States from 1848 to 1850 .

After the defeat of the radicals in 1856 and after his forced resignation from the government in June 1857, Castella again worked as a lawyer and in 1862, when he turned his back on the Grand Council and politics, he became a clerk at the cantonal court. He died in 1873 at the age of 68.

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 .

Web links

• François Genoud and AZ: Castella, André. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .