Eduard Amstad

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Eduard Amstad-Baumann (born March 19, 1922 in Beckenried , Canton Nidwalden ; † October 12, 2015 ibid) was a Swiss judge and politician ( CVP ). He was the son of the Supreme Court President Eduard Amstad and nephew of the Council of States Josef Mariä Amstad .

Life

After education at the secondary schools in Altdorf and Stans joined Amstad 1942 during the Second World War in the military service . He was first trained in the infantry school in Lucerne and then used as an infantryman .

After studying law at the Universities of Friborg , Zurich and Lausanne as well as the promotion of Doctor Juris from the University of Freiburg in 1949 Amstad joined the Judicial Service and worked as examining magistrate. In 1952 he began practicing as a lawyer until 1976 .

At the same time, he began a political career with the election of a member of the municipal council of Beckenried, of which he belonged until 1958 (from 1955 as mayor ). He then became a member of the district administrator elected by Nidwalden and was this until 1,962th In 1962 he was elected to the government council, where he was head of the judiciary. In 1965 he was also the author of the constitution of the canton of Nidwalden and thus one of the first new canton constitutions .

In the 1967 elections , Amstad was elected as the successor to Werner Christen to represent the canton of Nidwalden in the Council of States and represented Nidwalden's interests until he was replaced by Norbert Zumbühl in 1976. He then served as a federal judge at the Federal Insurance Court in Lucerne and from until 1987 1987 to 1992 ombudsman for private insurance companies. Amstad was also President of the Board of Trustees of the Höfli Foundation in Stans from 1969 to 1982 and then again from 1986 to 1990.

Amstad has been a member of the AV Fryburgia student association and thus of the Swiss student association since he was a student .

Works

  • The Medici von Beckenried - The five artist siblings Amstad: the singers Marietta and Martha, the reverse glass painter Franz, the cellist Werner and the craftswoman Regina. E. Amstad, Beckenried 2005.
  • The ombudsman in private insurance . In: Swiss Insurance Journal . No. 57, 1989, pp. 98-110. Online version ( Memento from May 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eduard Amstad has died. ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung (online) from October 15, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.luzernerzeitung.ch
  2. ↑ Second World War: Former federal judge was a contemporary witness. Neue Luzerner Zeitung, August 14, 2009 (no longer available online)
  3. ↑ Josef Achermann: On the history of the Roman Catholic regional church Nidwalden. 2000, PDF file.
  4. ↑ Höfli Foundation Stans .
  5. ↑ Niklaus Duss (Ed.): Fryburgia 1918–1993 , Freiburg i.Ue., 1993, p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Amstad, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (CVP) and federal judge
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Beckenried , Canton of Nidwalden
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 2015
Place of death Beckenried , Canton of Nidwalden