Frédéric Auguste Zuberbühler

Frédéric Auguste Zuberbühler (born April 15, 1796 in Le Locle ; † April 18, 1866 there ) was a Swiss politician . From 1854 to 1857 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of a landowner and watch manufacturer completed an apprenticeship as a watchmaker in Le Locle and worked as a watch dealer until 1848. In 1853 he was responsible for the control of fineness at the Precious Metals Control Office, and from 1856 he was a judge at the District Court in Le Locle. Zuberbühler represented radical liberal views and from 1831 sat in the corps législatif , the newly introduced parliament of the Prussian Principality of Neuchâtel . After the revolution in March 1848 and the ousting of governor Ernst von Pfuel's government , he was a member of the provisional administrative committee for justice and police.

Zuberbühler belonged to the constitutional council in 1848 , in the same year he was elected to the Neuchâtel Grand Council , to which he belonged until 1852 and again from 1857 to 1865. In addition, from 1850 to 1860 he was a member of the General Council, the legislature of Le Locle. He ran successfully in the National Council elections in 1854 and subsequently campaigned for the construction of the Jura industriel railway line . In 1857 he waived re-election.

Web links

• Isabelle Jeannin-Jaquet: Zuberbühler, Frédéric Auguste. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .