Emil Klöti

Councilor of States Emil Klöti (approx. 1930)

Emil Klöti (1928/29)

Emil Klöti (born October 17, 1877 in Töss [today the district of Winterthur ], canton of Zurich ; † September 30, 1963 in Zurich ) was city ​​president of Zurich and a cantonal , national and council of states .

biography

Emil Klöti was born to the teacher Konrad Klöti and his wife Elisabeth (née Baumgartner) on October 17, 1877. He studied economics at the University of Zurich . In 1902 he joined the Swiss Social Democratic Party . Klöti was a member of the VPOD and from 1928 to 1942 mayor of Zurich. He pushed the previous democratic mayor Hans Nägeli (1865–1945) out of office: A Red Zurich became a reality.

At the federal level, he sat in the National Council from 1919 to 1930, which he presided over as the first SP National Council in 1921/22, and in the Council of States from 1930 to 1955. He also served from 1921 to 1963 as a substitute judge of the Court of Cassation and the Federal Supreme Court from 1921 to 1948. As an advocate of proportional representation , he drafted a corresponding federal law in 1919. He failed in the election to the Federal Council in 1929 and 1938 .

Emil Klöti belonged to the right wing of the SP and was particularly committed to cooperative housing construction . He was one of the driving forces behind the incorporation of Zurich in 1934 and, during the economic crisis, pushed through wage cuts for civil servants and tax increases.

His services to the Landi led to the award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich in 1939 . Klöti had campaigned for the Zurich location for the national exhibition for years, but was exposed to distrust and hostility towards the Red Zurich, which he ruled. He then ceded his seat on the initiative committee to a representative of the peasant party, thereby gaining the support of the peasant side. In 1940 he was one of the founders of the National Resistance Campaign .

He found his final resting place in the Enzenbühl cemetery . In the city of Zurich and at his birthplace in Winterthur-Töss, streets are named after him.

Works

• The proportional choice in Switzerland, history, representation and criticism. In: Journal for Swiss Statistics, 1901, pp. 157-310 and as a separate print, Bern 1901, 480 pp. Simultaneously Diss. Staatsw. Univ. Zurich.

literature

• P. Schmid-Ammann: Emil Klöti, Mayor of Zurich. Oprecht, Zurich 1965, OCLC 15788365 .
• Bruno Fritzsche among others: History of the Canton of Zurich. Volume 3: 19th and 20th centuries. Werd-Verlag, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-85932-155-2 .

estate

• Estate in the Zurich City Archives (69 boxes)

Individual evidence

1. ^ In 1903 according to P. Schmid-Ammann: Emil Klöti, Mayor of Zurich . Zurich 1965, p. 25
2. ↑ Bruno Fritzsche among others: History of the Canton of Zurich. Volume 3: 19th and 20th centuries. Werd Verlag , Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-85932-155-2 , pp. 338/339.

Web links

• Markus Bürgi: Klöti, Emil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Nägeli	Mayor of Zurich 1928–1942	Ernst Nobs