Anton Carteret

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Portrait around 1880
Caricature of Anton Carteret, after 1873

Anton Carteret (also Antoine Carteret ; born April 3, 1813 in Geneva , † January 28, 1889 in Le Petit-Saconnex ) was a Swiss politician. Carteret was a member of the Geneva Grand Council and a member of the Federal Council . He belonged to the radical wing of the Free Democratic Party .

Life

Anton Carteret is the son of Jean-Daniel Carteret, who ran an exchange office at the Hotel Grand Quai , and his wife Adrienne Vettiner. After high school, he studied natural sciences and humanities at the University of Geneva . He was equally interested in politics and literature. During this time he radicalized and joined the Association du Trois-Mars, founded in 1841 . Through this movement he came into contact with James Fazy , with whom he would remain connected throughout his life. Today both are only separated by a path in the Cimetière des Rois cemetery . He was married to Louise Carteret, née Moulinié (1854–1909), daughter of Jacques Dauphin, manufacturer of dials.

During the riots in early 1843, a provisional government had been appointed in advance, including Carteret and Fazy. The unrest, which left three dead and 20 injured, was triggered by the passing of a law allowing the city administration's department heads to convene commissions to deliberate. The radicals opposed this decision on the grounds that it violated the constitution.

As a partisan of the radical revolution of October 1846, however, he stayed away from the uprising. A month later, Carteret was part of an eleven-member government commission of the canton of Geneva , which spoke out in favor of Zurich's proposal to apply for the dissolution of the Sonderbund . He presided over the constituent assembly (1846/1847) and became a member of the Administrative Council of the City of Geneva (1847-1851) and was a member of the Grand Council (1848-1851, 1854-1856, 1865-1869), Councilor of State (1851-1851, 1853), from which he headed the public relations office.

In the context of the Kulturkampf , Carteret belonged to the head of the Geneva Radical Party, which propagated a tough anti-clericalism with the fear that the Pope could restore the old order, as had already happened after the overthrow of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814. One of his efforts was even to exclude all teachers of the clergy from the schools.

Carteret was one of the first signatories of Charles Menn (1822-1894) presided over the International Peace League (Ligue internationale et permanente de la paix) based in Geneva in 1867 . He was a member of the National Council from 1869 to 1878 and 1881 until his death . During this time, in his role as head of education, he succeeded in passing a law on compulsory public schools in 1872 and establishing the university's medical faculty. He also succeeded in greatly diminishing the influence of the church: he initiated a law to supervise the state over the communities, but in the last decade of his life his political power waned. From 1879 his party no longer had an absolute majority in the Grand Council and the Council of State.

Carteret was an occasional poet and published a collection of fables in 1862 and a novel ten years later.

Honors

The city of Geneva erected a monument that was inaugurated on July 6, 1891. Today it stands between the library and the Natural History Museum. The bronze bust of Carteret rests on a marble base, underneath is the Geneva coat of arms with a palm tree and the inscription along with the dates 1813–1889. The very similar bust was modeled by Charmot, a former pupil of the Geneva School of Applied Arts , and cast by Limonta in Geneva, the pedestal was created by the architect Gos. "

To the west of the main train station in the Servette district , formerly Le Petit-Saconnex , the Rue Antoine-Carteret runs across the Rue de la Servette .

Web links

Commons : Anton Carteret  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Radicale: Violation of the Constitution" in the Google book search. In: Frankfurter Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung . No. 52, February 21, 1843, p. 2
  2. ^ "Anton Carteret, Dissolution of the Sonderbund" in the Google book search. In: Fränkischer Merkur . No. 318, November 14, 1846, p. 2
  3. ↑ "Anton Carteret from Geneva even wants to exclude all clerical persons from school" in the Google book search. In: Claudia Crotti: Female teachers - early professionalization: the professional history of primary school teachers in Switzerland in the 19th century (= studies on educational science. Volume 51). Peter Lang, Bern 2005, ISBN 978-3-03910-486-4 , p. 353
  4. ^ Subscription sheet for the International Peace Congress. Friedländer Collection, Central and State Library Berlin & Biblioteka Uniwersytecka , Uniwersytet Łódzki 2005 (PDF; 548 kB)
  5. ↑ monuments. In: Art for All. Painting, sculpture, graphics, architecture . Issue 23, September 1, 1891, p. 364 (Heidelberg historical holdings).
  6. ^ Noms géographiques du canton de Genève. Rue Antoine-CARTERET. Website of the République et Canton de Genève
personal data
SURNAME Carteret, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carteret, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1889
Place of death Le Petit-Saconnex