Gustav Adolf Seiler (politician)

Gravestone in the Liestal cemetery .

Gustav Adolf Seiler (born May 4, 1875 in Frauenfeld , † March 7, 1949 in Liestal ) was a Swiss politician .

Life

Seiler, son of the teacher and philologist Gustav Adolf Seiler , attended schools in Liestal and Basel , completed a law degree in Basel and Leipzig and received the title of Dr. iur. From 1901 to 1922 he was a lawyer in Liestal and a federal representative in the Pfandbriefbank of the Swiss mortgage institutes.

From 1904 to 1910, Seiler was President of the Basel Criminal Court and from 1911 to 1922 for the Democratic-Economic Association of the Basel District District Administrator , where he was President from 1916 to 1917. After the parliamentary elections from 1914 to 1943, Seiler sat in the National Council and presided over the Finance Commission and the Commission for the Criminal Code . From 1922 to 1939 he was a member of the government of Basel , where he was responsible for finance and the military.

Seiler was a prominent leader of the movement for the independent Basel area, had various board memberships and was an honorary citizen of Liestal from 1936 .

literature

• Erich Gruner : The Swiss Federal Assembly 1848–1920. Francke, Bern 1966, Vol. 1, p. 484.
• Lexicon of persons of the canton of Basel-Landschaft , edited by Kaspar Birkhäuser , 1997, 138 ( online )
• S. Rudin-Bühlmann: Party founding in the Basel area between 1905 and 1939. 1999

Web links

• Franz Wirth: Seiler, Gustav Adolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .