Antoine Vessaz

Antoine Vessaz (born June 20, 1833 in Lucens , † October 25, 1911 in Konstanz , entitled to live in Chabrey ) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ).

biography

Vessaz was Prefect of Lausanne from 1868 to 1873 , then director of the Suisse Occidentale railway company until 1875 . From 1874 to 1878 he was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud , after which he worked until 1892 as a tax collector for the Lausanne district. In the 1870s he was a member of the board of directors of the Union vaudoise de crédit. From 1871 he was a member of the bank council of the Waadtländer Kantonalbank , from 1878 he was also a member of the supervisory board of the Waadtländer Mortgage Bank.

In 1875 Vessaz was elected to the Council of States , which he presided over in 1878 . After the parliamentary elections in 1878 , he moved to the National Council , to which he was a member until 1883. In 1881 he was also President of the National Council . As a member of the cantonal constitutional council, he worked on a new cantonal constitution in 1884/85.

From 1886 Vessaz was a member of the board of directors of the Suisse-Occidentale-Simplon (SOS) railway company and, together with Louis Ruchonnet, campaigned for the construction of the Simplon tunnel . In 1889 he was the driving force behind the merger of the SOS with the Jura – Bern – Lucerne to form the Jura-Simplon-Bahn (JS). He was then a member of the JS Board of Directors. The newspaper Der Bund accused Vessaz of corruption in 1891, whereupon he gave up all offices and moved to his daughter in Constance.

Web links

• Olivier Meuwly: Antoine Vessaz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Council members database since 1848