Friedrich Sigmund Kohler

Friedrich Sigmund Kohler (born April 24, 1795 in Nidau , † January 29, 1871 in Bern ) was a Swiss politician and judge . From 1831 to 1840 he was a member of the government of the Canton of Bern , from 1848 to 1851 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of a table maker studied law at the University of Heidelberg . After he was admitted to the bar, Kohler worked in the Gerwer law firm in Bern. From 1823 he worked as a procurator ; later he opened a law firm in Nidau, where, like his father before him, he held the office of mayor . Kohler represented radical liberal views. In 1831 he was involved in the peaceful political overthrow in the canton of Bern when the patrician government abdicated and the radicals took power. In the same year Kohler was elected to the Grand Council . This in turn immediately elected him to the government council. Until his resignation in 1840, he was responsible for the judiciary and the police.

From 1840 to 1846 Kohler served as governor of the Burgdorf district . In 1845 he was a member of the committee that organized the second free march to Lucerne . In 1846 he was a member of the Constitutional Council, which drafted an even more liberal cantonal constitution. In the same year he was appointed President of the High Court. Kohler ran in the first National Council elections in October 1848 and was elected in the Oberaargau constituency. He waived re-election three years later. When the conservatives temporarily came to power in the canton of Bern in 1850, they deposed Kohler as president of the court, whereupon he founded a wine shop. Although he sat again on the Grand Council from 1852 to 1858, he quickly lost influence.

Web links

• Christoph Zürcher: Kohler, Friedrich Sigmund. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .