Bendicht Straub

Bendicht Straub (born November 11, 1787 in Belp , † January 14, 1868 in Seftigen ) was a Swiss politician . In 1850/51 he was a member of the government of the Canton of Bern , and from 1851 to 1854 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of the farmer and magistrate of the same name received a legal education. From 1832 to 1846 Straub was the court president of the Seftigen district , and he was also a landowner and businessman. After regeneration began in the Canton of Bern with a popular assembly in Münsingen in 1831 and led to a new constitution, he was one of the leading liberals in the Gürbetal . In 1832 he was elected to the Grand Council , of which he was a member for 14 years.

In 1846 Straub was a member of the Constitutional Council . He disagreed with the revised constitution because it contained too many concessions to the radicals. After their election victory, he joined the conservatives with Eduard Blösch . In 1849/50 he was again represented in the Grand Council. On March 25, 1850, Straub headed the conservative electoral assembly in Münsingen, which made a decisive contribution to the narrow victory of the reactionary forces in the May 1850 grand council elections. The new conservative grand council majority then elected him to the government council. After only a year he resigned. Straub ran in the National Council elections in 1851 and was elected in the Mittelland constituency. Three years later he was defeated by the moderate liberal Christoph Albert Kurz in the third ballot .

Web links

• Christoph Zürcher: Straub, Bendicht. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .