Theodor Curti

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Carl Theodor Curti (born December 24, 1848 in Rapperswil , † December 13, 1914 in Thun ) was a Swiss-German journalist and politician .

Life

Born as the son of a lawyer and town clerk, Curti studied after attending the Latin School in Rapperswil and the Cantonal School in St. Gallen, first medicine , later law and philosophy in Geneva , Zurich and Würzburg . During his studies in 1867 he became a founding member of the then student union and later fraternity Adelphia Würzburg . From 1870 he worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung , among other things as a war correspondent in Alsace . In 1871 he became editor of the St. Galler Zeitung and from 1873 to 1879 he was political editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung . Because of his struggle for freedom of the press and democracy , he was imprisoned for two months at the instigation of Bismarck in 1875, but then acquitted. In 1879 he was involved in founding the Züricher Post newspaper , of which he was editor-in-chief until 1894.

From 1881 to 1890 and from 1896 to 1902 Curti was a member of the National Council for the canton of St. Gallen , and in between for the canton of Zurich. He was considered the spiritual leader of the democratic left wing of the St. Gallen Liberals and in 1896 founded the social policy group in the National Council, which he chaired as parliamentary group president from 1896 to 1902. In 1887 he was a co-founder of the workers' union. He was a member of the Cantonal Council of Zurich (1891-1894) and the Grand City Council of Zurich (1892-1894). From 1894 to 1902 he was government councilor for the Democrats in the canton of St. Gallen. In 1897 he ran unsuccessfully as a Federal Councilor . From 1898 to 1900 he was St. Gallen Landammann . In 1902 he became a German citizen and was director of the Frankfurter Zeitung until 1914. After the beginning of World War I he returned to Switzerland.

Works

  • History of Switzerland in the XIX. Century , Verlag F. Zahn, Neuchâtel 1902, 713 pp.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Scherrer: Zurich Post. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 27, 2014 , accessed July 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ Georg circle : Ernst Brenner . In: Urs Altermatt (Ed.): Das Bundesratslexikon . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 , p. 223-224 .