Ernst Schmid (politician, 1899)

Ernst Schmid (born June 1, 1899 in Mühleberg ; † January 8, 1991 in Dieterswil, today part of the municipality of Rapperswil BE ), reformed , resident in Mühleberg, was a Swiss politician ( BGB ).

Life

Family and work

Born in Mühleberg, Ernst Schmid, son of the farmer Emil Schmid and the Freiburghaus born Emma, ​​worked in his home community on his parents' farm at today's Brandstrasse 14, 3203 Mühleberg. Ernst Schmid, who married Hanni, the daughter of Alexander Räz, in 1937, died in 1991 five months before the age of 92 in Dieterswil. The farm had been taken over by his son.

Functions in the cooperative system

Ernst Schmid advanced from being a basic member of the local agricultural cooperative to being President of the Association of Agricultural Cooperatives in Bern and neighboring cantons and President of the Bern Farmers' Association.

Political career

Ernst Schmid, who joined the Farmers, Trade and Citizens' Party (BGB), sat on the Bern Grand Council from 1934 to 1938 . In 1941 the people elected him to the National Council , of which he was a member until 1950. In the Clemency Commission he was responsible the function to judge applications from individuals who because of treason had been sentenced to death. In the only pardon request accepted by the Federal Assembly , Schmid spoke out in favor of the execution of the sentence. The United Federal Assembly met in secret on March 22, 1945. National Councilor Schmid-Dieterswil applied on behalf of the pardon commission to reject the request. The commission passed its motion by eight votes to four with one abstention.

See also

• List of the National Councils of the Canton of Bern

literature

• Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) : files of the United Federal Assembly 1945
• The Bund of May 30, 1979 and January 11, 1991 (identical text in the Berner Zeitung of January 11, 1991)
• Markus Feldmann , Peter Moser (Ed.): Diary, In: Volume 13 of sources on Swiss history. New episode: Letters and Memories, Swiss History Society, 2001, page 196.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the obituaries in the press, 1949 was incorrectly stated as the end of his time in the National Council instead of 1950 (see www.parlament.ch  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check Link according to instructions and then remove this note. )  
2. ^ Requests for pardon - The sixteenth petition. Retrieved February 9, 2018 . 
3. ^ Minutes of the session of the United Federal Assembly, March 22, 1945 ( PDF )

Web links

• Diego Hättenschwiler: Schmid, Ernst. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Ernst Schmid (politician, 1899) on the website of the Federal Assembly