Gregor Lützelschwab

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Gregor Lützelschwab

Gregor Lützelschwab (born February 22, 1794 in Kaiseraugst ; † February 19, 1860 there ; entitled to live in Kaiseraugst) was a Swiss politician and judge . From 1831 to 1835 he was a member of the government of the Canton of Aargau , and in 1851 and 1852 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of Fridolin Lützelschwab, a wealthy farmer and fisherman, received private lessons and attended the Latin school in Rheinfelden . At the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau , he first studied medicine, then law. Mathematics, physics, chemistry and humanistic subjects were also part of his studies. From 1818 he was a corresponding member of the fraternity cooperative / association for the processing of scientific objects and the old Freiburg fraternity in Freiburg .

From 1819 Lützelschwab worked as a district judge in Rheinfelden, from 1826 also as a district administrator. In 1829 he was elected as a judge of appeal in Aargau. From 1835 until his death he was a member of the Aargau Higher Court and presided over it from 1849 to 1856.

Lützelschwab was also politically active and was elected to the Grand Council in 1822 . In 1831 he was an envoy to the federal assembly . In the same year, the Grand Council elected him to the cantonal government, where he chaired the Catholic Church Council and the Military Commission. In 1834 he was ambassador from Aargau to the conference that decided on the Baden articles . Lützelschwab initially represented liberal positions, but then turned to the Catholic-Conservative faction. In 1835 he gave up government activity. Lützelschwab ran successfully in the National Council elections in 1851 , but after only one year in office he resigned as National Council.

literature

  • Anton Senti: Necrology for Gregor Lützelschwab (1793-1860) . In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, Vol. 68–69, 1958, pp. 505–506 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Gundermann: The members of the old Freiburg fraternity 1816-1851. Freiburg im Breisgau 1984/2004, p. 6, 8th pdf

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personal data
SURNAME Lützelschwab, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and judge
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiseraugst
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1860
Place of death Kaiseraugst