August Raillard

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August Raillard

August Raillard (born February 16, 1821 in Basel , † September 1, 1889 in Amden ) was a Swiss politician, industrialist, alpinist and founding member of the Swiss Alpine Club .

Life

August Raillard trained as a businessman and then worked in his father's tannery factory, which he later took over. As a conservative, he was a Basel Grand Councilor and a member of the Grand City Council and the Citizens' Council. He also sat in the Church Synod and in the Church Council. In addition, Raillard worked as a lay judge at the criminal court for 25 years . With this accumulation of offices , Raillard was a typical representative of the Basel elite ( Daig ). Raillard's ancestors were Huguenots from Lorraine .

Raillard was a participant in the meeting of "35 Swiss mountain and glacier riders" on April 19, 1863 in the Olten station buffet , who founded the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) at the invitation of Rudolf Theodor Simler and co-founded the Basel section of the SAC.

With Abraham Roth , Georg Sand, the mountain guide Heinrich Elmer and the porters Christian Vordermann and Jakob Stüssi, he managed the first ascent of the Bifertenstock on September 6, 1863 . In addition to many peaks in the Swiss Alps , he managed the third ascent of the Gross Windgällen in 1864 . In 1864 he managed the first ascent of the Fleckistock with Leonhard Finiger .

Memorial plaque on the road from Weesen to Betlis

On September 1, 1889, Raillard never returned from a hike from Weesen am Walensee to Amden . A day later he was found dead at the foot of a rock wall near the lake shore. The reason for the fall in easy terrain is suspected to be malaise or dizziness. A large plaque commemorates the Alpine pioneer near the crash site on the road from Weesen to Betlis .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Thomas Schmid, Daniel Anker, et al .: Helvetia Club - 150 years of the Swiss Alpine Club. Daniel Anker (Ed.), Verlag SAC, Bern 2013. ISBN 978-3-85902-362-8 .
  2. ↑ Michael Raith : Raillard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland. July 26, 2010, accessed October 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Abraham Roth in: Yearbook of the Swiss Alpine Club , first year, Bern 1864, p. 163 ff.
  4. ^ Albert Hoffmann-Burckhardt: August Raillard as a clubist and mountaineer. Lecture given on January 3, 1890, Section Basel SAC
personal data
SURNAME Raillard, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss alpinist, co-founder of the Swiss Alpine Club
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1889
Place of death Amden