Edmund von Schumacher

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Edmund von Schumacher (born August 12, 1859 in Naples , † August 30, 1908 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss politician.

Life

Edmund von Schumacher came from the old Lucerne patrician family Schumacher . His father was the general of Naples-Sicily Felix von Schumacher . After finishing school in Lucerne, he studied law at the Universities of Strasbourg , Munich and Zurich . In 1880 he became a member of the Corps Rheno-Palatia Munich . After graduating as Dr. iur. and an internship with Josef Zemp , he became a court clerk in Lucerne. In 1886 he became a state clerk . As a Catholic-Conservative politician, he was in the cantonal government of the Canton of Lucerne from 1888 to 1908as a government councilor before the Department of Justice. From 1895 to 1908 he was a member of the Federal Council of States .

Von Schumacher was a member of the board of directors of Moos'schen Eisenwerke and Centralschweizerische Kraftwerke . He was a colonel in the Swiss army and president of the newspaper society Vaterland and the Catholic club house Union. From 1904 to 1905 he belonged to that of King Leopold II. Used international commission of inquiry in Congo on. He was married to Antonia Anna Müller, daughter of the Swiss civil engineer and politician Karl Emanuel Müller . Karl von Schumacher was her son.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 113 , 163
personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Edmund von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1908
Place of death Lucerne