Friedrich Fueter

Friedrich Fueter (pronounced [fuətər] ; born January 14, 1802 in Bern , † November 26, 1858 in Préfargier near Marin-Epagnier ) was a Swiss politician . From 1848 to 1857 he was a member of the National Council, from 1850 to 1858 he was a member of the government .

biography

Fueter came from a long-established, regimental gender of the civic community of Bern . His father was a mint master and enabled him to train in business. His daughter Adele Katharina was married to the Bernese clergyman and university professor Albrecht Rudolf Rüetschi .

Fueter then ran an iron trade. He had the rank of major in the military and was president of the building commission of the city of Bern in the 1840s. In 1846 he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern and belonged to the conservative opposition.

In October 1848, Fueter ran for the first National Council elections and was elected in the Mittelland constituency. He was a member of the National Council until 1857. When the Conservatives temporarily came to power in the canton of Bern in 1850, the Grand Council elected him to the cantonal government . As a government councilor, Fueter was responsible for the finance department. In doing so, he succeeded in bringing the deficit budget back into balance. Due to his excessive commitment, he exhausted himself so much that he had to be sent to the Préfargier insane asylum in the canton of Neuchâtel in 1858 , where he died a little later.

Web links

• Peter Stettler: Fueter, Friedrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

proof

1. ↑ Hans Bickel, Christoph Landolt: Duden. Swiss high German. Dictionary of the standard language in German-speaking Switzerland. Edited by the Swiss Association for the German Language. Dudenverlag, Mannheim / Zurich 2012, p. 88.