Emil Lohner

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Emil Lohner (born April 15, 1865 in Thun ; † February 24, 1959 there , entitled to live in Thun) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ).

Life

After graduating from high school in Burgdorf , Lohner began studying law in Bern in 1883 . He received the advocacy license and was a lawyer in his father-in-law's office in Thun from 1889 to 1890 . He was then head of a legal office in Aarberg from 1890 to 1891 and in Thun from 1891 to 1909.

In 1897, he was in his home town in the council elected and was from 1899 to 1909 mayor . From 1898 to 1909 he had a seat in the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern and from 1909 to 1928 in the government council . He headed the education department until 1918 and was then head of the justice and military departments. From 1914 to 1919 he was President of the FDP Switzerland . He also sat in the National Council after the parliamentary elections from 1902 to 1927 . In 1919 he ran unsuccessfully as a Federal Councilor .

Lohner was Chairman of the Board of Directors of BLS from 1923 to 1927, as well as Swiss Mobiliar . During the First World War through the late 1920s, Lohner was a leading liberal in Switzerland.

Lohner built bridges between German and French-speaking Switzerland and was instrumental in resolving internal party tensions in 1919. His first political commitment in Thun was primarily for the school system. During his time as education director, he was responsible for the reintroduction of the Matura exam and for better pay for primary school teachers. When he was director of justice, the district administration was simplified, a new code of criminal procedure was introduced, and juvenile justice was introduced. In the National Council he campaigned for the expansion of the Bernese railways and the electrification of the Swiss Federal Railways . He made a name for himself as a member of the League of Nations Commission in foreign policy and represented Switzerland in the Disarmament Commission from 1922 to 1924 and in 1925 at the Geneva Arms Trade Conference of the League of Nations. Appointed by the Federal Council, Lohner was director of the Central Office for International Rail Transport from 1928 to 1935.

He was a colonel in the Swiss Army , and in 1934 he received an honorary doctorate in medicine from the University of Bern .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Böschenstein : Karl Scheurer . In: Urs Altermatt (Ed.): Das Bundesratslexikon . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 , p. 302 .