Carl Moser (lawyer)

Carl Albert Moser also Moser-Nef (born January 1, 1873 in Altstätten ; † March 26, 1961 in St. Gallen ; resident in Altstätten) was a Swiss lawyer and legal historian .

Life

Family and education

The Reformed baptized Carl Moser, son of the district commander Albert Moser and his wife Katharina née Kuster, attended primary and secondary school in Altstätten before he switched to the canton school at Burggraben in St. Gallen, where he passed the federal Matura . He then devoted himself to studying law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the University of Zurich , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , the University of Leipzig and the University of Bern , where he obtained the academic degree of Dr. iur.

Carl Moser was married to Alice, the daughter of the businessman Eduard Nef. He died in the spring of 1961 at the age of 88 in St. Gallen.

Professional background

After completing his studies in 1900, Carl Moser opened a law firm in Altstätten, in 1902 he was hired as a district clerk in St. Gallen, in 1909 he was appointed the first examining magistrate, in 1918 he was appointed head of the examining magistrate's office in St. Gallen, and resigned in 1923 Function back. As a result, Carl Moser turned exclusively to research on legal history as a private scholar . In 1938 he set up the Moser-Nef Foundation for legal historical research in Switzerland at the University of Bern, and in 1940 at the Historical Association of the Canton of St. Gallen the Moser-Nef Fund for legal history work. His main work is the seven-volume legal history treatise The Free Imperial City and Republic of Sankt Gallen , published between 1931 and 1955 by Orell Füssli Verlag in Zurich .

Carl Moser received an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen in 1949 , and in 1954 he was made an honorary citizen of St. Gallen.

Further publications

• St. Gall's crisis images from the time of the Thirty Years War, in: Writings of the Swiss Trade Association, No. 1., Bürgerhaus Schweizerischer Gewerbeverband, Bern, 1935
• Prof. Dr. Hans Fehr at the age of 70, 1944
• Asylum and "freedom" in St. Gallen, letterpress H. Tschudy & Co., St. Gallen, 1945
• Currency turmoil in the city of St. Gallen at the time of the Thirty Years War, in: Commerce and Industry in the Canton of St. Gallen: Memorandum for the 75th anniversary of the Trade and Industry Association of St. Gallen; 1875-1950, Zollikofer & CO, St. Gallen, 1950, pp. 75-88.
• From the time when the detention center was blown up: a contribution to the history of criminal justice in St. Gallen, 1958

literature

• Josef Rohner: Altstätter families and coats of arms, Buchdruck Rheintalische Volkszeitung , Altstätten, Switzerland, 1953, p. 89
• Savigny Foundation: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Canonical Department, Volume 78, H. Böhlau, 1961, pp. 508-510.

Web links

• Franz Xaver Bishop : Moser, Carl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Carl Moser; Matriculation number 10818 , matriculation edition of the University of Zurich