Edwin Hauser

Edwin Hauser (born January 26, 1864 in Glarus ; † October 7, 1949 there , entitled to live in Näfels and Glarus) was a Swiss politician ( DP ).

education and profession

Hauser attended the canton school in St. Gallen and then began studying law in Leipzig , Munich and Bern . Between 1886 and 1917 he worked as a lawyer in the canton of Glarus . For around ten years (1888 to 1901) he worked as an editor for the “Glarner Nachrichten”.

Political career

In 1890 Hauser was elected to the town council of Glarus , where he had a seat until 1905. From 1891 to 1902 he was district administrator and presided over it in the year of office 1898/99. In 1902 he was elected to the government council of Glarus, where he was first head of the poor and guardianship directorate and later the military and police directorate. From 1917 to 1923 he was state governor and from 1926 to 1932 mayor . In 1921 he was elected to the Council of States , but did not belong to any parliamentary group there (the official website of the Federal Assembly lists him as President of the Social Policy Group for 1927). In 1936/37 he was President of the Council of States and resigned from the Council of States in April 1938.

As a co-founder of the Democratic and Workers' Party in Glarus , Hauser was an avid promoter of the rule of law, such as the expansion of cantonal social legislation, unemployment insurance and the labor protection law . As a supporter of proportional representation , he introduced this electoral system in the canton of Glarus. As President of the Federal Linth Commission and as Vice-President of the Glarner Kantonalbank (1920 to 1941), he headed various institutions.

Web links

• Hans Laupper: Hauser, Edwin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Group presidents since 1917 (pdf) Federal Assembly. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
2. ↑ President of the Council of States factual report (pdf) Parliamentary Library . December 1, 2018. Retrieved March 20, 2019.