Gustav Muheim (politician, 1897)

Gustav Muheim (born November 6, 1897 in Altdorf UR ; † March 22, 1979 in Lausanne , entitled to live in Altdorf) was a Swiss politician ( KVP ) and federal judge .

biography

Gustav Muheim, son of the conservative Catholic politician Franz Muheim, took to filed Matura at the Humanities College in Altdorf a law degree at the University of Bern and Lausanne on which he in 1922 in Bern with the promotion of Dr. iur. completed.

As a result, Gustav Muheim, after he had been elected as state advocate by the rural community of the canton Uri in 1921, worked professionally as an advocate and since 1931 also as a notary . He was also employed as Vice President of the Urner Kantonalbank from 1940 to 1951 and as a public prosecutor from 1945 to 1951 . On September 27, 1951, he was elected a member of the Federal Supreme Court. Muheim - he was retired in 1967 - presided over the prosecution there.

Gustav Muheim began his political career in 1923 as a member of the Altdorf municipal council , to which he was a member until 1935, of which from 1931 he was mayor . In 1928 he was elected to the Uri District Administrator , where he was represented until 1948, including as President between 1936 and 1937. From 1945 to 1951 he was a member of the Council of States for his canton .

Gustav Muheim rendered special services to overcoming the Ursner reservoir crisis. His estate is in the Uri State Archives. He had been married to Elsbeth, daughter of the farmer David Zogg, since 1945.

literature

• Urner Wochenblatt , 1979, number 27

Web links

• Hans Stadler: Muheim, Gustav. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Short biography of Gustav Muheim on the website of the Swiss Federal Court