Daniel Lüscher

Daniel Lüscher (born September 30, 1787 in Oberentfelden ; † January 19, 1864 there ; entitled to live in Oberentfelden) was a Swiss politician and judge . From 1828 to 1852 he was Councilor of the Canton of Aargau . He was the brother of the politician Melchior Lüscher .

biography

After a legal studies Lüscher received 1812 admission as a lawyer . In 1816 he was elected to the Aargau Grand Council , and in 1821 he was appointed district judge and governor of the Aarau district . The Grand Council elected him to the cantonal government in 1828 as the successor to his brother Melchior, who had died in office and was 18 years his senior. In the years 1835 and 1839 he was the bailiff before the government.

In addition to his government office, Lüscher was President of the Commission for the Drafting of the Criminal Court Code (from 1833), member of the Civil Legislative Commission (from 1844) and President of the Postal Commission (from 1845). As a member of the so-called Commission of 22, he drafted a new cantonal constitution in 1840, and from 1849 to 1851 as a member of the Constitutional Council. In 1852 Lüscher resigned from the government and worked as a district administrator in Aarau until his death .

literature

• Georg Boner : Nekrolog für Daniel Lüscher (1787–1864) . In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, vol. 68–69, 1958, p. 503 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Sarah Brian Scherer: Lüscher, Daniel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .