Casimir Folletete

Casimir Folletête (born September 17, 1833 in Pruntrut ; † December 23, 1900 ibid) was a Swiss politician ( Catholic Conservative ) and journalist . From 1895 until his death he was a member of the National Council.

Monument in Le Noirmont (JU)

biography

Folletête was the son of a businessman and nephew of the politician Xavier Elsässer . After graduating from the college in Pruntrut, he studied law at the universities of Munich , Paris , Rome and Bern . In 1857 he was admitted to the bar and opened a law firm in Pruntrut. From 1863 to 1869 he worked as an editor at the Gazette Jurassienne and as a freelancer at Le Pays and Union du Jura . He was also the curator of the archives of the former Principality of Basel from 1891 to 1898 . Folletête, a member of the Swiss Student Association , campaigned for the interests of Catholics in the Bernese Jura during the Kulturkampf and led the protest movement against the dismissal of Bishop Eugène Lachat . In addition, he published research on the history of the Bernese Jura.

Folletête's political career began in 1866 when he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern , to which he was a member until 1900. From 1863 he ran several times unsuccessfully in the National Council elections. This was due to the fact that the Catholic Conservatives in the constituency of Jura were always outvoted by Liberals and Reformed. With the division of the constituency in 1890, the electoral chances of the Catholic Conservatives improved. In a by-election in 1895, Folletête was elected the eighth attempt. In the National Council, of which he was a member until his death, he campaigned for the standardization of civil law and the creation of the National Museum Zurich .

Web links

• Peter Stettler: Folletête, Casimir. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .