August Roth (politician)

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August Roth (born February 22, 1894 in Kesswil , † April 11, 1954 in Winterthur , entitled to live in Kesswil) was a Swiss lawyer and politician ( SP ).

Life

August Roth grew up as the only son of a ship master and landlord in Kesswil. After graduating from high school, Roth studied law at the universities in Bern , Lausanne , Zurich and Leipzig . He graduated from the University of Leipzig in 1917 with a doctorate. iur. from. A year later he was admitted to the bar in Thurgau. From 1920 to 1922 he practiced in the office of the social democratic lawyer Johannes Huber in Rorschach . From 1922 until his election as mayor , he worked as an independent lawyer in Arbon . In 1923 he married Daffodil Baumgartner. The marriage produced two sons and a daughter. On April 5, 1954, Roth suffered a severe cerebral haemorrhage. Without regaining consciousness, he died on the following Palm Sunday (April 11, 1954) at the age of 61.

politics

The special political talent of the young lawyer, who had already joined the Social Democratic Party in Rorschach, was recognized early on. From 1922 until his election to the government council, he was President of the Social Democratic Party of the Canton of Thurgau . He was able to crown his municipal career as early as 1928. As a candidate for combat by the Social Democratic Party, which had won the majority in Arbon in 1925, he succeeded in defeating the incumbent Arbon mayor and mayor. He stayed in office for 13 years, and during this time he had a major impact on the “red Arbon”. The economic crisis was fought by emergency work (correction of the bleaching streams and support for the lido, which was created in community work). The gasworks could be sold with the consent of the sovereign and a favorable gas supply contract was concluded with the gasworks St. Gallen , which the municipality of Arbon continued to share in the proceeds from gas sales by means of a concession fee. The Huber'sche factory on the main street in the old town was acquired and converted into a town house. In 1938 the local administration led by Roth intervened successfully with the government council, when the constant provocations of the Nazis, especially the National Socialist masters in the war economics departments of the Saurer company, increased.

At the cantonal level, Roth, a member of the Grand Council since 1923, was a member of the cantonal bank management from 1928 to 1941. In 1941 August Roth became a member of the cantonal government. He was the first social democrat in the Thurgau executive. In his department he was responsible for construction, insurance and guardianship. Roth made an outstanding contribution to the preservation of monuments, regional planning (today spatial planning) and road construction. His last work was the Thur Bridge near Eschikofen, opened in 1954, which replaced the old wooden bridge from 1837.

From 1928 to 1931, from 1935 to 1941 and finally from 1947 to 1951, August Roth was a member of the National Council.

literature

  • Rudolf Schümperli : Government Councilor Dr. August Roth. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch 1955, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 1955, p. 44.
  • Hans Geisser: Shadows over the city by the lake. Everyday life in Arbon in crisis and war 1930-1945 . Museumsgesellschaft Arbon, Arbon 2010, ISBN 978-3-9523381-3-1 , p. 30-39 .
  • Claudius Graf-Schelling , with the assistance of Sabine Schifferdecker and Bernhard Bertelmann: Roth und röter. 100 years of the Arbon Social Democratic Party 1916-2016. A chronicle. Arbon Social Democratic Party, Arbon 2016, ISBN 978-3-033-05588-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Roth: The paternity suit of the Swiss civil code under consideration of the German imperial law . Fehlmann's printing works, Zofingen 1917.
  2. ↑ Until May 31, 2015 the term for mayor. The current name is "City President".
  3. ^ Albert Schoop: History of the Canton of Thurgau . tape 1 . Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 1987, ISBN 3-7193-0976-2 , p. 284 .
  4. ↑ The annual license fee exceeded the amount that the Arbon gasworks itself earned, cf. Hans Geisser, shadow over the city by the lake. Everyday life in Arbon in crisis and war 1930-1945 , Museumsgesellschaft Arbon, Arbon 2010, pp. 33 and 34.
  5. ↑ Stefan Keller: The time of the factories. Of workers and a red city . WoZ im Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-85869-228-X , p. 69 ff .
  6. ↑ August Roth was elected to the Thurgau government as a newcomer with the best result, cf. "Der Oberthurgauer" from March 10, 1941.
  7. ↑ Christian Kamm: Ready for governance. St. Galler Tagblatt, April 26, 2004, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2015 .
  8. ^ Albert Schoop: History of the Canton of Thurgau . tape 2 . Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 1992, ISBN 3-7193-1066-3 , p. 25 .
  9. ^ August Roth - Nationalrat - Canton Thurgau. In: www.parlament.ch. Retrieved September 2, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Roth, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Kesswil
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1954
Place of death Winterthur