Georg Michel (politician, 1804)

Georg Michel (born May 11, 1804 in Seewis in Prättigau , † March 9, 1867 in Zizers ) was a Swiss politician and judge . From 1848 to 1849 and from 1851 to 1860 he was a member of the National Council, and he was also a member of the Government Council of the Canton of Graubünden several times .

biography

The son of an officer in foreign services came from a patrician family from the Prättigau . Despite his origins, he later developed into a staunch Republican and renounced the title of nobility . Michel graduated from the Protestant canton school in Chur , after which he studied law at the universities of Basel and Heidelberg . From 1824 he worked as a lawyer and as an administrator of his family's property. From 1835, Michel served several times as Landammann of the Seewis district and as Federal Landammann of the Ten Courts Federation . In 1842 he represented Graubünden as a delegate to the Diet .

Michel belonged to the Grand Council from 1835 to 1840 and presided over it in 1840 (President of the State). In the years 1836/37, 1839/40, 1841/42, 1844/45, 1846/47 and 1850/51 (from September to August) he sat in the small council , the cantonal government . During the Sonderbund War in November 1847, he commanded a Bündner battalion stationed in the canton of Ticino and was a colonel in the federal general staff . Michel ran successfully in the first National Council elections in the constituency of Graubünden-North in October 1848 . He resigned after only one year, but was re-elected in 1851 and belonged to the National Council until 1860 on the part of the Liberals . From 1848 to 1866 he was a district judge , from 1860 to 1863 he was also a cantonal judge .