Bernhard Jäggi
Bernhard Jäggi (born August 17, 1869 in Mümliswil , † April 13, 1944 in Muttenz ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ). He was a Christian Catholic .
Life
Jäggi completed primary school in Mümliswil, secondary school in Balsthal and then, until 1888, a bank apprenticeship in Balsthal. He then became a permanent bank employee, a member of the Grütlivereins and the Swiss Social Democratic Party. In the 1890s he was won over by Stephan Gschwind for the cooperative movement and from then on devoted most of his life to expanding it. From 1899 he was administrator of the Thun consumer association and from 1900 auditor at the Association of Swiss Consumers (VSK), the forerunner of the Coop . From 1909 to 1934 he was President of the Administrative Commission of the VSK and from 1935 to 1938 President of the Board of Directors, in which he was involved from 1934 to 1944.
From 1902 to 1916 he was Basel SP Grand Council , and in 1910 even President. After the parliamentary elections in 1911 , he represented the canton of Basel-Stadt in the National Council until 1916 . At the end of 1916, Jäggi announced his resignation from all political offices and resigned from the SP because he rejected the more radical course and for professional reasons.
He was the initiator of the Freidorf housing cooperative founded in Muttenz in 1919, the founder of the cooperative seminar in Freidorf in 1923 and the cooperative children's home in Mümliswil in 1937 and, in 1943, together with Heinrich Küng (director of the Basel cooperative central bank) co-initiator of the Jakobsberg regional cooperative in Basel. In 1929 he was awarded the title of Dr.-hc from the University of Basel .
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| SURNAME | Jäggi, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mümliswil |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1944 |
| Place of death | Muttenz |