George Bovet

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George Bovet

George Bovet (born November 27, 1874 in Neuchâtel , † May 20, 1946 in Lausanne ; resident in Fleurier ) was a Swiss lawyer and journalist . He was a member of the FDP and from 1934 to 1943 Federal Chancellor .

biography

The son of Henri Alphonse Bovet, state clerk of the canton of Neuchâtel , graduated from high school in Geneva . He then studied linguistics in Berlin and law in Bern . From 1896 he worked as a journalist for over three decades. He was initially editor of the newspaper National Suisse in La Chaux-de-Fonds , then from 1898 to 1927 he reported on national political events for the Lausanne Revue , the Pariser Le Temps and the Frankfurter Zeitung .

Parallel to his work as a correspondent, Bovet entered the federal administration in 1910. At the beginning he worked as a translator in the Federal Chancellery , from 1911 he headed the secretariat of the National Council . In 1927 the Federal Council elected him Vice Chancellor. After the resignation of Chancellor Robert Käslin in 1934, the Catholic Conservative People's Party raised a claim to this office, which the FDP also granted it. However, when a large minority of the Catholic-Conservative parliamentary group voted against Federal Councilor Heinrich Häberlin in the Federal Council election, the FDP proposed its party member Bovet as a candidate who, with the support of the SP , was able to prevail against Oskar Leimgruber .

Bovet was the second French-speaking Chancellor and the first of the state after Jean-Marc Mousson . He did without a second French-speaking Vice Chancellor and took responsibility for publications in this language himself. In 1943 he resigned; he was followed by Leimgruber, who had been defeated nine years earlier.

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SURNAME Bovet, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Federal Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1946
Place of death Lausanne