Society of Ober-Gerwern

Society of Ober-Gerwern
Purpose:	Public corporation for child and adult protection as well as social welfare
Chair:	Rudolf von Steiger (chairman)
Establishment date:	around 1300
Number of members:	1393
Seat :	Bern; Amthausgasse 28 ; 3011 Bern Switzerland;
Website:	www.ober-gerwern.ch

House sign from 1900 of the Ober-Gerwern Society on Marktgasse in Bern (2007)

The Ober-Gerwern Society is one of the 13 societies and guilds in the city of Bern and a public corporation guaranteed by the constitution of the Canton of Bern . It is a civil corporation within the meaning of Bernese municipal legislation and is subject to the supervision of the cantonal authorities. As a personal corporation, it does not have its own territory and is taxable. It includes all citizens of Bern who have the corporate law of Ober-Gerwern.

The Ober-Gerwern Society appears in the sources for the first time in the 14th century and included the red tanners. From the 15th century one of the four had Venner Berns room journeyman to Gerwern be. The up-and-coming generations of the Venner societies Pfistern, Schmieden, Metzgern and Gerwern thus had a political privilege. Numerous families increasingly devoted themselves to politics and in modern times formed the patriciate. This explains the high number of ruling families on Ober-Gerwern.

people

Non-exhaustive list of members of the Ober-Gerwern Society, about which a German Wikipedia article exists.

Niklaus Manuel , painter, poet and statesman
Hans Steiger , Schultheiss of Bern
Albrecht Manuel , mayor of Bern
Wilhelm Stettler , painter and draftsman
Beat Fischer , founder of the Bernese Post
Christoph von Steiger , mayor of Bern
Samuel Henzi , writer, politician and revolutionary
Albrecht von Haller , physician, botanist and writer
Robert Scipio of Lentulus , officer
Niklaus Friedrich von Steiger , mayor of Bern
Karl Ludwig von Haller , politician
Karl Wilhelm wing , doctor
Emanuel Friedrich von Fischer , statesman
Moritz von Stürler (1807–1882), Bernese state clerk and state archivist
Eduard Fischer , botanist
Ludwig Fischer , botanist
Johann Samuel Gruner , mining director
Ernst Friedrich Langhans , theologian
Leopold Rütimeyer , physician
Ludwig Rütimeyer , zoologist, geologist, anatomist and paleontologist
Henry Berthold von Fischer , architect
Adolf von Steiger , Swiss Federal Chancellor
Edmund von Steiger , pastor and canton politician
Friedrich von Werdt , engineer and politician
Karl Stettler-von Rodt , theologian
Eduard von Steiger , Federal Councilor
Edouard de Haller (1897–1982), lawyer, diplomat, ambassador and delegate of the Federal Council for international aid organizations
Beat von Fischer , diplomat
Anatol von Steiger , Russian writer
Sergius Golowin , writer
Klaus Schädelin , pastor, writer and politician
Kurt von Fischer , musicologist and pianist
Michael Stettler , art historian
Ruth von Fischer , artist
Hermann von Fischer (1926–2015), architect and preservationist
Rudolf von Fischer (1929–2017), lawyer, President of the Civic Community of Bern
Ruedi Krebs (* 1938), songwriter, Bernese troubadour

literature

Christoph von Steiger: The Society of Ober-Gerwern Bern , Bern 1997.
Moritz von Stürler : The Ober-Gerwern Society in Bern , Bern 1924.

Web links

Commons : Gesellschaft zu Ober-Gerwern - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Official website of the Ober-Gerwern Society
Gesellschaft zu Ober-Gerwern on the website of the Civic Community of Bern
Archive Gesellschaft zu Ober-Gerwern in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern

Single references

^ State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Constitution of the Canton of Bern. SR 131.212. In: Systematic Legal Collection SR . Voters of the Canton of Bern, June 6, 1993, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 107 in Section 7 municipalities; as of March 11, 2015).
^ State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Municipal Law of the Canton of Bern. BSG 170.11. In: Systematic legal collection of the Canton of Bern BSG. Grand Council of the Canton of Bern , March 16, 1998, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 117 in Section 2.2 Civic Communities and Civil Corporations; Status on January 1, 2014).

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[1] State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Constitution of the Canton of Bern. SR 131.212. In: Systematic Legal Collection SR . Voters of the Canton of Bern, June 6, 1993, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 107 in Section 7 municipalities; as of March 11, 2015).

[2] State Chancellery of the Canton of Bern: Municipal Law of the Canton of Bern. BSG 170.11. In: Systematic legal collection of the Canton of Bern BSG. Grand Council of the Canton of Bern , March 16, 1998, accessed on June 14, 2018 (Article 117 in Section 2.2 Civic Communities and Civil Corporations; Status on January 1, 2014).