Franz Schmid (politician, 1841)

Franz Schmid (born September 30, 1841 in Altdorf , † November 30, 1923 in Lausanne , entitled to live in the canton of Uri ) was a Swiss politician ( KVP ).

biography

Schmid middle school attended in Altdorf , Colmar and Feldkirch and then studied from 1861 to 1864 law at the universities of Munich , Leipzig and Heidelberg . He then worked first as an advocate and from 1880 to 1893 as a public prosecutor . In 1891 he became a substitute for the Swiss Federal Supreme Court and in 1904 became a federal judge. He worked in Lausanne until his death in 1923 and was President of the Federal Supreme Court in the last year of his life.

Franz Schmid received his first political mandate in 1867 when he was elected to the Uri District Administrator , where he had a seat until 1892 and was president from 1890 to 1891. From 1871 to 1875 he was mayor of Altdorf. From 1874 to 1876 and 1903 to 1905 he was a member of the government council. The people of Uri elected Schmid to the Council of States in 1882 and to the National Council in the parliamentary elections in 1890 , where he politicized until 1904. From 1904 to 1906 he was finally mayor of the canton of Uri.

At the national level, his main concern was the civil code . He was a very quick-witted speaker and was mostly the spokesman for the conservative opposition. Schmid also sat on various boards of directors . He was also the central president of the Swiss Student Union from 1864 to 1865 .

In the Swiss Army he was a colonel in the military justice system .

literature

• Erich Gruner : Federal Assembly 1 . S. 303 .

Web links

• Urs Kälin: Schmid, Franz. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .