Franz Josef Hänggi

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Franz Josef Hänggi (born September 1, 1846 in Nunningen ; † January 20, 1908 in Solothurn ; resident in Nunningen) was a Swiss conservative politician and newspaper editor.

Life

Franz Josef Hänggi was born in Nunningen in 1846 as the first of four children to a smallholder family. After attending primary school in Nunningen and the district school in Breitenbach , he completed high school at Mariastein Abbey, among other places . He then spent two years studying theology and returned in 1868 for a year as a teacher back to Maria Stein.

In the winter of 1870 he achieved greater fame with his essay “Winter Contemplations”, in which he relentlessly analyzed and criticized the party and press relations in the canton of Solothurn. In 1871 he became the central president of the Swiss Student Association and the first drawing editor for the newly founded Catholic newspaper Vaterland in Lucerne . In 1871 Hänggi was also a cantonal councilor, an office he held again from 1874 to 1876. In 1872 he took over the editing of the conservative Solothurner-Anzeiger .

In 1873 Hänggi married Anna Maria Gisinger. The marriage resulted in seven girls, two of whom died in early childhood. A grandson was the lawyer and politician Franz Josef Jeger, born in 1909 . From 1876 to 1887 Franz Josef Hänggi acted as chief magistrate of the Dorneck-Thierstein . In 1875 and 1887 he was also a constitutional councilor. His tireless struggle for the introduction of the proportional voting system earned him the nickname «Proporz-Hänggi». His work was finally successful in the constitutional revision in 1887, so that the Solothurn Cantonal Council has been elected in proportional representation since 1895.

In the same year the «Solothurn banking crash» brought the previously sole ruling liberals into trouble. The scandal strengthened the conservative opposition, whose spokesman was Franz Josef Hänggi, considerably. The liberal government resigned as a whole and on October 23 the Solothurn electorate approved the first purely democratic constitution. This revision also introduced the election of the government council by the people. In the subsequent government council elections, Hänggi acted as a representative of the conservative opposition along with four liberal politicians on the list of liberals and was elected as the first conservative in the Solothurn government. In 1899 he was also elected to the National Council, of which he was a member until his death.

Franz Josef Hänggi died in 1908 at the age of 62 after a long illness.

literature

  • Thomas Wallner : Franz Josef Hänggi - Life picture of a political Solothurn , In: Festgabe Franz Josef Jeger , State Chancellery Solothurn, 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas Wallner: Franz Josef Hänggi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 27, 2007 , accessed July 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ They called him Proporz-Hänggi , Basellandschaftliche Zeitung , January 20, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Hänggi, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and newspaper editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Nunningen
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1908
Place of death Solothurn