Carl Burckhardt (politician)

Family grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Carl Burckhardt (also Karl ; born June 29, 1795 in Basel ; † February 1, 1850 in Pisa ) was a Swiss politician and lawyer .

Life

Burckhardt came from an important Basel councilor family. studied from 1814 to 1820 at the universities of Heidelberg , Göttingen , Berlin and Paris . In the 1820s he belonged to the moderately liberal Tugendbund in Basel. He was also considered a leader in the oppositional non-profit society founded in 1777, which was geared towards contemporary reforms. After his return to his hometown in 1821 he was immediately appointed President of the civil court, which was reorganized at that time.

Burckhart was elected to the Grand Council in 1822 , to the Small Council in 1832 and at the same time mayor of Basel. In 1833, under him, the separation of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Land was finally completed. As mayor from 1832 to 1846 he was also the delegate of the Diet . In the course of the constitutional crisis of 1846/1847 he refused to be re-elected and thus resigned from the office of mayor in 1846. If he had to defend himself against attacks by the conservatives in his political career, at the end of his political career he was criticized by the opposition, revolutionary forces.

After leaving the Basel government, Burckhardt was elected President of the Basel Court of Appeal. He died in Pisa. He had stayed there to improve his ailing health.

Fonts

History of the Basel Society for the Promotion of the Good and the Charitable during the first fifty years of its existence , Neukirch, Basel 1827.
Report to the Swiss Charitable Society on penal institutions in Switzerland. Zurich 1827.

literature

Wilhelm Vischer : Burckhardt, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 574 f.
Philipp Sarasin : Burckhardt, Carl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

Works by and about Carl Burckhardt in the German Digital Library
Publications by and about Carl Burckhardt (politician) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Max Burckhardt : Burckhardt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 35 f. ( Digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Burckhardt, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Burckhardt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	February 1, 1850
Place of death	Pisa

[1] Max Burckhardt : Burckhardt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 35 f. ( Digitized version ).