Caspar Melliger

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Caspar Melliger (also Kaspar Melliger ; born December 27, 1868 in Buttwil , Canton Aargau , † March 31, 1924 in Zurich ) was a Swiss lawyer and founding president of the Catholic People's Party of the city of Zurich.

Life

Caspar Melliger studied after attending school at Einsiedeln Abbey Abbey , where he met Paul Chastonay , and graduated from 1889 to 1891 in Catholic theology at the University of Friborg , then law at the Universities of Zurich , Strasbourg and Leipzig . In 1896 he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. In 1897 he opened his own law firm in Zurich.

Melliger was a Catholic . In 1895 he was a co-founder of the Catholic daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Nachrichten . In 1896 he was the initiator, founder and founding president of the “Catholic People's Party of the City of Zurich”; In 1907 he was a co-founder of the “Christian Social Party of the City of Zurich”.

Caspar Melliger was a member of the Grand City Council of Zurich from 1913 to 1917 and a member of the Zurich Cantonal Council from 1917 to 1924 .

He was a member of the Catholic fraternity AV Turicia in the Swiss student association .

Fonts

  • Culpa in contrahendo or compensation for void contracts according to the common and Swiss Code of Obligations. Zürcher and Furrer, Zurich 1896 (dissertation).
  • On the question of the protection of those insured by the German life insurance companies in Switzerland. Concordia, Winterthur 1922, 7 pages.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "culpa in contrahendo ..." , American Libraries, accessed on 22 December 2009
personal data
SURNAME Melliger, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melliger, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer, founding president of the Catholic People's Party of the City of Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Buttwil , Canton of Aargau
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1924
Place of death Zurich