Giovanni Jauch

Giovanni Jauch (born March 22, 1806 in Bellinzona , † July 26, 1877 in San Bernardino ) was a Swiss politician . From 1848 to 1851 and from 1855 to 1872 he was a member of the National Council, and from 1874/75 to the Council of States . In 1855 he was also a State Councilor .

biography

He came from the long-established Uri family of Jauch , his father was a wealthy landowner. Jauch studied law at the University of Pavia and worked as a lawyer and notary in Bellinzona from 1828 . He was one of the most prominent representatives of the radical liberals in the canton of Ticino . Among other things, he was president of the Società dei Carabinieri (shooting society ) and the Società Demopedeutica (society for popular education). In 1839 the radicals seized power in an armed uprising. Jauch played a leading role in this, as well as in the suppression of a Catholic-Conservative counter-revolution in 1841. In 1844 he was elected to the Grand Council , to which he belonged continuously for more than three decades and which he chaired several times as president. From 1846 to 1848 he represented the canton of Ticino as an envoy to the Diet , and during the Sonderbund War of 1847 he served as a colonel .

In October 1848 Jauch ran successfully in the first National Council elections , three years later he waived re-election. The National Council elections in 1854 , in which Jauch ran again, ended with a victory for the Catholic Conservatives. After the radicals had successfully appealed to the court, the Federal Assembly ordered a re-election. In February 1855 there was renewed political turmoil in Ticino: armed militias (led by Jauchs Carabinieri ) took action against the opposition and justified this with an alleged conspiracy, according to which the conservatives wanted to overthrow the radicals with the help of Austria . When the National Council elections were repeated in March 1855, the radicals clearly prevailed and Jauch rejoined the National Council for the Ticino-South constituency . In that year he also served temporarily as Ticino State Councilor .

In 1860 Jauch was a representative of the canton in negotiations with the Holy See about the spiritual administration of Ticino. On behalf of the federal government, he negotiated in 1861/62 with the Kingdom of Sardinia about the canteen of the Diocese of Como . From 1864 he also served as mayor of Bellinzona. In 1871 he founded the newspaper Costituzione , in 1872 he was one of the initiators of the newspaper La riforma federale . In the National Council elections in 1872 , Jauch was able to defend his seat, but the Federal Assembly declared the ballot invalid due to numerous irregularities. After the re-election in March 1873 could not be carried out properly, Jauch finally lost his seat in the National Council in October 1873. The Grand Council then elected him to the Council of States for the years 1874/75 . He remained a councilor and city president until his death

literature

• Corrado Biasca: Giovanni Jauch. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 5, 2007 , accessed December 9, 2019 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marco Maracci: pronunciamiento. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 16, 2010 .
2. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Giovanni Jauch. Digitized In: Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 4, Hoescheller - Jestetten, Attinger Verlag, Neuenburg 1927, p. 390.