Arnold Gottlieb Bühler

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Arnold Gottlieb Bühler (born March 15, 1855 in Brienz , † April 26, 1937 in Frutigen , reformed , resident in Aeschi near Spiez ) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ).

Life

Share in the Niesen-Bahn-Gesellschaft, of which Bühler was the first president

Arnold Gottlieb Bühler was born on March 15, 1855 in Brienz as the son of the doctor Samuel Jakob Bühler and Margreta née Fuchs. After the early death of his father, Bühler and his family moved to Aeschi, where his mother took over a grocer's shop. He attended primary and secondary school in Brienz. For financial reasons it formed next to a language course in Geneva autodidactically on. Between 1876 and 1878, Bühler, a member of Helvetia , studied law at the University of Bern until he was licensed as a notary in 1878.

As a result, Bühler worked as a notary in Aeschi until 1913 and as administrator of the Aeschi and Frutigen savings funds. At the Niesenbahn he was the first president of the management. In addition, he held managerial positions and board memberships , for example at the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn , the Bernese power plants , the Oberhasli power plants and the Berner Kantonalbank . Buhler also served in the Swiss Army in the position of colonel in the infantry .

His first marriage was to Mariann nee Luginbühl and his second marriage to Anna Maria nee Schneider, the widow of James B. Wilcocks. Arnold Gottlieb Bühler died on April 26, 1937, six weeks after he had turned 82 in Frutigen.

Political career

The free-spirited politician Bühler was a local councilor in Aeschi from 1878 to 1885 , of which from 1881 he was mayor . At the cantonal level, he represented his party in the Bern Grand Council from 1881 to 1922 . In addition, Bühler was a member of the Constitutional Council between 1883 and 1884 . Finally he took a seat on the National Council from 1889 to 1922 . In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 1919 he was re-elected to the list of the BGB , but continued to politicize in the FDP parliamentary group.

As one of the leading personalities of Bernese freedom, Arnold Gottlieb Bühler played a key role in the transport and economic development of the Bernese Oberland . In the National Council, he was considered an expert in river engineering, such as the regulation of the Rhine in the canton of St. Gallen . He also appeared as an opponent of the introduction of the proportional representation system in the National Council elections.

Honors

literature

  • State Archives of the Canton of Bern : Legacy
  • Erich Gruner : The Swiss Federal Assembly 1848–1920. Vol. 1, p. 147 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beat Junker , in: Historischer Verein des Kantons Bern (ed.), History of the Canton of Bern since 1798, Volume 3: Tradition und Aufbruch 1881-1995, Bern 1996, p. 98, http://biblio.unibe.ch/ digibern / gesch_kant_bern_seit_1798_bd_03_tradition_und_aufbruch.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Bühler, Arnold Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Brienz
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1937
Place of death Frutigen