Arnold Knellwolf

Arnold Knellwolf (born May 19, 1865 in St. Gallen ; † January 2, 1945 in Stein am Rhein ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ), reformed pastor and journalist . From 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of an insurance employee from Herisau studied theology at the universities of Basel and Bern from 1884 . After he was ordained in 1887 , Knellwolf initially worked for a year as a correspondent for the Züricher Post in Bern. From 1888 to 1891, after being accepted into the Graubünden Synod, he was pastor in Untervaz and Trimmis , then in the free Christian community of Mainz . During his stay in Germany he also worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung . In 1898 Knellwolf returned to Switzerland and was editor of the Landbote in Winterthur . From 1900 to 1906 he again worked as a pastor in Untervaz and Trimmis, then for two years in Wald AR , from 1908 to 1910 in Lugano , from 1910 to 1928 in Erlach and finally in Mammern .

Knellwolf was a member of the Grütlivereins (workers' association associated with the Social Democrats) and represented it from 1902 to 1906 in the Grand Council of the Canton of Graubünden . From 1913 to 1928 he was a councilor in Erlach. As a Grütli candidate, he ran for the National Council elections in 1917 (the last in the majority process) and was elected in the Seeland constituency. In the social democratic faction, Knellwolf appeared as a representative of a nationally tinged socialism. In 1919 he did not manage to be re-elected and in 1921 he was not allowed to move up because he did not want to give up the parish office. In 1923 he founded the Swiss Red Cross Calendar, of which he remained editor until his death.

Web links

• Christoph Zürcher: Knellwolf, Arnold. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .