Fritz Bosset

Fritz Bosset (born February 22, 1853 in Avenches as Fréderic Gérard Bosset ; † February 24, 1935 in Corcelles-près-Payerne , entitled to live in Avenches) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ).

biography

Fritz Bosset was born on February 22nd, 1853 in Avenches as the son of the farmer Frédéric Marc Bosset and Caroline née Fornerod. He attended secondary school and high school in Bern from 1867 to 1870 . After completing an internship between 1870 and 1872, Bosset worked as a notary, but a visual impairment forced him to give up his job, whereupon he found a new field of activity in agriculture. He also co-founded the "Journal de Payerne" .

He was married to Lénora nee Delacour. Fritz Bosset died on February 24, 1935 two days after he had turned 82 in Corcelles-près-Payerne. His nephew Norbert was also politically active.

Bosset held his first political office in 1893 as a representative of the Liberal Party in the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud . His re-election in 1897 failed because his transfer to the Liberal Party was resented. Bosset had been represented in the Grand Council of Vaud from 1901 before retiring in 1905 for health reasons. In 1913 he was elected in a replacement election to the National Council , to which he was a member until 1922.

Bosset appeared as a staunch opponent of the proportional representation system . His knowledge of German made Bosset in Bern an intermediary between German-speaking Swiss and Welschen. He was involved in agricultural issues and promoted their mechanization . Bosset also participated in a draft law to combat animal diseases .

literature

• Vaudois State Archives: Dossier SDA ;
• Erich Gruner : The Swiss Federal Assembly 1848–1920. Vol. 1, p. 781;

Web links

• Gilbert Marion: Bosset, Fritz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .