David von Büren

David von Büren, anonymous portrait (1625)

David de Buren ( 12. February 1614 - 31 December 1659 ) was a Swiss politician, Governor and Bernese cantonal parliament from the Bernese patrician family Buren .

Life

Büren was the son of the Venner Johann von Büren. From 1635 he was Bernese Grand Councilor (representative of the forging quarter , 1636 of the Pfisternviertel), 1637 Grossweibel , from 1647 to 1649 and 1657 Sechzehner , 1650 Kleinrat , 1658 Venner. In 1640 he became bailiff in Romainmôtier , in 1650 in Lausanne .

In 1633 he married Margarete von Bonstetten, daughter of Karl von Bonstetten , Bernese councilor and baron von Vaumarcus. Through his wife he came to rule Vaumarcus . In 1659, Leopold I gave him the title of hereditary imperial baron .

The trial of Johann Frischherz took place during Buren's tenure as Grossweibel , which later, as a member of the sixteen, attracted special attention in the council elections.

literature

• Manuel Kehrli: On the social position of the middle-class Wyttenbach family around 1600 In: Vera Heuberger: Bilderwelt des Himmelbetts , Bern 2000, pp. 12–13, 61.
• Ulrich Moser : David von Büren. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 10, 2003 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ * Barbara Braun-Bucher : Johann Frischherz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 10, 2005 .
   * Emil Blösch:  Frischherz, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 95.

This version of the article is based on the entry in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage instructions, is under the Creative Commons license - Attribution - Distribution under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). If the article has been revised and expanded to such an extent that it differs significantly from the HLS article, this module will be removed. The original text and a reference to the license can also be found in the version history of the article.