Gustave Irlet

Gustave Irlet (born March 12, 1800 in La Chaux-de-Fonds , † October 12, 1869 there ) was a Swiss politician and doctor . From 1857 to 1866 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of a doctor completed a medical degree at the Bern Academy and at the universities of Heidelberg , Berlin and Paris ; then he opened a doctor's office. In 1831, Irlet took an active part in the uprising against the Prussian rulers in the canton of Neuchâtel as a staunch radical liberal republican . During the successful revolution of 1848, which led to the deposition of the governor Ernst von Pfuel's government, he was local commandant of La Chaux-de-Fonds.

From 1851 Irlet officiated as deputy chief bailiff of the La Chaux-de-Fonds district and in 1856 organized the local resistance against the royalist coup attempt as part of the Neuchâtel trade . In 1856 he chaired the founding committee of the newspaper National suisse , then until 1862 its publishing company. He was also president of the organizing committee of the Swiss Federal Shooting Festival in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1863 and a member of the board of the Compagnie du Jura industriel . Irlet ran successfully in the National Council elections in 1857 , but waived re-election three years later. He remained deputy chief bailiff until his death.

The copper and steel engraver Georges François Louis Jaquemot was his brother-in-law.

Web links

• Éric-André Klauser: Irlet, Gustave. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .