Friedrich Schneider (politician)

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Friedrich Schneider (born September 23, 1886 in Solothurn , † January 29, 1966 in Sarnen ) was a social democratic Swiss politician.

Life

As editor of Basler Vorwärts, Schneider represented the "internationalist" line of socialism since the beginning of the war . Under Schneider's leadership, the majority of the SP drifted to the left, in line with the trend of the Swiss party. At the party congress in Bern, the majority of them declared themselves in favor of refusing military loans.

In 1918 Schneider was a member of the Olten Action Committee , which organized the state strike from November 11 to 14, 1918. In the directional struggles of the party between the revolutionary and reformist wing, he belonged to the center around Robert Grimm .

Schneider was sentenced to six months in prison for his involvement in the Olten Action Committee; From his cell he wrote articles for Vorwärts under the pseudonym Christian Schibi ( Peasant Leader from the Swiss Peasants' War ) to support the 1919 Basel general strike .

From December 1, 1919 to 1939 and from 1941 to 1951, Schneider was a member of the National Council. From June 1921 to November 1922 he was a member of the communist faction, otherwise always the social democratic faction. In 1920 he was elected to succeed Eugen Wullschleger in the government council of the canton of Basel-Stadt , but was voted out again in 1923. He was head of the Department of the Interior.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernard Degen : Forward. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Paul Meier-Kern: German aid for the “Basler Vorwärts”? Basel Journal of History and Archeology, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schibi, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Solothurn
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1966
Place of death Sarnen