Hans Konrad Pestalozzi
Hans Konrad Pestalozzi-Stadler (born July 2, 1848 in Zurich , † June 15, 1909 in Zurich) was a Swiss architect and politician . Among other things, he served as Zurich City President from 1889 until his death, as National Councilor from 1890 to 1905 and as President of the Swiss Red Cross from 1908 to 1909 .
biography
Hans Konrad Pestalozzi was born in Zurich in 1848 as the son of a businessman . He studied architecture at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum in his native city until 1868 , where, among other things, the German architect Gottfried Semper was one of his teachers. After his military service, he worked on Semper's planning for the Vienna museums and, after a stay in Paris, went to Vienna in 1871 to work in Semper's office.
After a stay in Rome and his return to Zurich, he worked as a freelance architect and built several private houses. In addition, he turned to local politics and in November 1881 became a member of the city council , the Zurich executive . He became the head of a department of the building administration, worked on building legislation and was chairman of the commission for university building. From 1889 until his death, Pestalozzi was Mayor of Zurich and thus the first mayor after Zurich expanded into a major city.
From 1885 to 1909 he was a cantonal councilor , after the parliamentary elections from 1890 to 1905 he was a member of the National Council, the large chamber of the Swiss parliament , where he belonged to the liberal-democratic center. He gave up this post after his election to the administration of the Swiss Federal Railways . From 1908 to 1909 he succeeded the Bernese pastor Edmund von Steiger as President of the Swiss Red Cross. This office was taken over by the Basel lawyer Isaak Iselin-Sarasin after his death .
Together with other Semper students, Hans Konrad Pestalozzi was the founder of the Zurich Semper Museum and co-founder of the Swiss National Museum and the Swiss Association of Cities (SSV), a municipal umbrella organization .
In 1909 Richard Kissling created portrait caricatures of Heinrich Angst , Johann Rudolf Rahn and Pestalozzi for the weapons hall of the Swiss National Museum .
He was married to Maria Wilhelmine Stadler from 1876 and died in his hometown in 1909 and found his final resting place in the Sihlfeld cemetery .
literature
- Veronika Feller-Vest: Pestalozzi, Hans Konrad. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2009 .
- Hans Pestalozzi-Keyser: History of the Pestalozzi Family . Self-published, Zurich 1958 ( online version ) - especially p. 204ff. ( Online version ) and family tree 025 ( online version )
- Pestalozzi, Hans, Mayor of Zurich . In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 14, 1912, p. 25 (not viewed)
- Pestalozzi, Hans . In: Walter Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. Volume 7. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-23186-5 , p. 610
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Melchior Romans |
Mayor of Zurich 1889–1909 |
Robert Billeter |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pestalozzi, Hans Konrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pestalozzi-Stadler, Hans Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 15, 1909 |
| Place of death | Zurich |