Emil Zehnder

Emil Zehnder

Emil Zehnder (born December 22, 1910 in Murten ; † April 10, 1974 in Friborg in Üechtland ) was a Swiss politician and State Councilor of the canton of Friborg .

Live and act

Zehnder's parents were Friedrich Hermann Zehnder, an electrician in the service of the city of Murten , and Lina geb. Eicher. In 1950 Emil Zehnder married Cäcilia Schneuwly. The couple had three children.

Emil Zehnder attended the Hauterive teachers' seminar and then studied philology , philosophy and ancient history at the universities of Bern and Freiburg . After acquiring the secondary school teacher diploma, he taught German, Latin, Greek, English and history in Murten from 1943 to 1953. From 1943 to 1959 he was the municipality clerk for the city of Murten and president of the civic community .

After the resignation of Pierre Glasson , he was quietly elected to the State Council in 1959 and headed the judiciary, municipalities and parishes. Before the Grand Council he campaigned for new laws on political rights and the notary's office (1966). As a Reformed , German-speaking and liberal minority three times over, he had to assert himself in the government and stated on various occasions: "The parquet in the State Council room is smooth!"

During his term of office, the preparatory work for the revision of the municipal and municipal merger law fell. He successfully campaigned for the revision of the municipal law and its provisions on the municipal purpose associations (1963). He participated in the drafting of a concordat in western Switzerland on the penal system. In 1966 and 1970 he was President of the State Council. When the Social Democrats entered the government in 1971, he was voted out of office. With a certain disappointment, he withdrew completely from political life. After leaving the State Council, at the instigation of Federal Councilor Ernst Brugger , Head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, he took a seat on the permanent Federal Housing Commission. He was also an employee of the newspaper "Der Murtenbieter".

On April 10, 1974, he died in Freiburg at the age of 64.

literature

• Georges Andrey , Hubertus von Gemmingen (translation): The Freiburg State Council: 1848–2011; History, organization, members . Ed .: John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand, Nicholas Gex. Paulus, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7228-0815-4 .

Web links

• Silvia Zehnder-Jörg: Zehnder, Emil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .