Heinrich Roman Abbot

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Heinrich Roman Abt (born January 15, 1883 in Bünzen ; † March 27, 1942 there ; entitled to live in Bünzen) was a Swiss politician ( BGB ), agronomist and lawyer . From 1919 until his death he represented the canton of Aargau in the National Council .

biography

The son of the National Councilor Heinrich Eugen Abt and nephew of the rack railway designer Carl Roman Abt graduated from the district school in Muri and the canton school in Aarau . From 1903 to 1906 he trained as an engineer-agronomist at the ETH Zurich . He then taught at the Agricultural Winter School in Brugg until 1911 , where his father had previously been rector. In 1910 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the Aargau Land Law, and in the following year he received the patent as a lawyer and notary. In 1912 he took over his father's farm, but also opened a law firm in Wohlen .

Abbot's political career began in 1917 when he was elected to the Aargau Grand Council , of which he was a member until 1941. In 1923/24 he was President of the Grand Council. In 1919 he was elected to the National Council as his father's successor, in contrast to the latter not as a member of the FDP , but of the Aargauer BGB, of which he was one of the founders. In 1921 he caused a sensation with a motion calling for the weekly working hours to be increased from 48 to 54 hours. In 1932 he was President of the National Council .

As president of the Association of Aargau hat weave manufacturers (1920–1942) and with a seat on several boards of directors ( Aargau Electricity Works , Northwest Switzerland Power Plants, Swiss Bank Association ), he tried to build bridges between industry and agriculture. At the beginning, Catholic ultramontanism was his ideological enemy, from the 1930s onwards his goal was to bring about resistance against socialism and communism by unifying the bourgeois parties . In the 1940s, Abbot showed sympathy for the National Socialist dictatorship in the German Reich. After General Staff Officer Gustav Däniker was dismissed from the army in 1941 because he had called for the “voluntary integration” of Switzerland (albeit expressly while maintaining its statehood) into the “new Europe” under the leadership of the German Reich, he described this measure as “ a national disaster, both in terms of foreign and domestic policy ».

literature

  • Franziska Keller: Colonel Gustav Däniker - rise and fall of a Swiss professional officer , dissertation. ars historica Thusis Verlag, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-908544-20-3
  • Biographical Lexicon of the Canton of Aargau 1803–1957 . In: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau (Ed.): Argovia . tape 68/69 . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1958, p. 14-15 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Däniker, memorandum of May 15, 1941. In: Franziska Keller: Colonel Gustav Däniker - Rise and fall of a Swiss professional officer , dissertation. ars historica Thusis Verlag, Zurich 1997, p. 413/414, ISBN 3-908544-20-3
  2. ^ Willi Gautschi : The case of Däniker. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 13, 1998, accessed April 30, 2010 .
  3. ^ Hans Senn: Däniker, Gustav. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Abbot, Heinrich Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (BGB)
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Coins
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1942
Place of death Coins