Heinrich Escher (politician, 1777)

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Heinrich Escher vom Glas , also Heinrich Escher-Schultheß (born December 3, 1777 in Zurich , † March 14, 1840 ibid) was a Swiss businessman and politician.

Life

family

Heinrich Escher came from the Zurich family Escher vom Glas . He was the son of Ludwig Escher, who worked in judicial and administrative positions, and his wife Susanne, daughter of the future mayor of Zurich, Hans Heinrich Kilchsperger (1726-1805).

Heinrich Escher was married to Henriette, daughter of Martin Schulthess (1745–1800), textile manufacturer and director of the merchants since 1808. Together they had three sons and two daughters.

Apprenticeship and commercial activity

Although he was initially destined for a commercial profession, he received, at the request of his maternal grandfather, a scientific education at the Collegium Carolinum in Zurich and was a student of Johann Jakob Steinbrüchel and Johann Jakob Hottinger (1750-1819).

In 1797 he accompanied his father to the bailiff of the rule Andelfingen had been appointed, but at soon after opportunity, and he joined in the same year in a Swiss trading house in Livorno and was trained there as a merchant. In 1800 he took over the management of a trading company founded by the Swiss in Livorno. After the trading house was liquidated in 1808 due to the political developments in Italy at the time, he returned to Zurich and began a political career. He attended a political institute and at the same time became a voluntary secretary in the office of the Department of the Interior.

Public service and political activity

In 1813 he started as a signer on the Supreme Court before it from 1818 to 1822 as the successor to his father, who had since been appointed to an economic Administrative Office Chief Justice was.

From 1816 to 1836 he was a member of the Grand Council and from 1821 to 1831 a member of the Greater Zurich City Council , and was involved in almost all deliberations when it came to questions about constitutional amendments.

In the period from 1822 to 1831 he was senior bailiff of the Wädenswil district and in this position was president of the judicial and administrative authorities of the district.

From spring 1831 to 1832 and in 1840 he was appointed as Government appointed member of the new government of the canton of Zurich and the President of the Council of the Interior. After several political associations had come together to form an organized opposition that made a level-headed government impracticable because it hindered all government measures, he joined seven other members of the government, including the two mayors, and mayor Hans Konrad von Wyß (1749-1826) Hans Conrad von Muralt (1779–1869) retired from office. After his resignation, he took the opportunity and attended various colleges of the newly established University of Zurich for political economy and philosophical studies and, from 1835, he returned to trading.

Entanglement in the Züriputsch

On September 2, 1839, a people's assembly took place in Kloten in the run-up to the Züriputsch , for which 15,000 citizens gathered. These included a large number of men from the Wädenswil district, who cheered and welcomed their old chief bailiff who took part in this meeting. In the subsequent election of mayor representatives, he was also elected to hand over a solemn declaration to the mayor, which, among other things , demanded according to § 4 of the constitution that freedom of belief be guaranteed and a regional church recognized according to the evangelical reformed doctrine . After the government failed to react, the Zurich coup took place on September 6, which led to the overthrow of the government. Heinrich Escher then trained, together with Hans Jakob Hürlimann-Landis (1796-1853), Hans Conrad von Muralt (1779-1869), Johann Jakob Hess , Melchior Friedrich Sulzer (1791-1853), Eduard Sulzer (1789-1857) and Ludwig Meyer von Knonau the Provisional Government; shortly afterwards he was also elected a member of the new government. At his own request, however, after a while he no longer had a share in the business.

Works (selection)

  • Johann Jakob Hottinger: Professor and Canonicus in Zurich . Zurich 1831.

Literature (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kilchsperger, Hans Heinrich. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  2. ^ Walter Feilchenfeld-Fales: Writings from the period from 1766 to 1780 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-082407-0 , p. 378 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Hottinger, Johann Jakob. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Wyss, Hans Konrad von. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Muralt, Hans Conrad von. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Hürlimann, Johann Jakob. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  7. ^ Sulzer, Melchior Friedrich. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
  8. ^ Sulzer, Eduard. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Escher, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Escher vom Glas, Heinrich; Escher-Schultheß, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1840
Place of death Zurich