Hermann Walder

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Hermann Walder (born May 2, 1891 in Wängi ; † October 18, 1972 in Zug ) was a Swiss politician ( LdU ) and lawyer . From 1938 to 1943 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of the doctor of the same name and Susanna (née Leutenegger) graduated from the Frauenfeld canton school . He then studied law at the Universities of Geneva , Munich , Heidelberg , Leipzig and Bern . He received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1914 and worked as a lawyer in Zurich from 1915 . In 1923 he married Amalie Elisabeth Nägeli, the daughter of the politician Hans Nägeli . In 1925, through the accountant Rudolf Peter, he met the entrepreneur Gottlieb Duttweiler , who was about to found the Migros retail company and was looking for sponsors. Walder made a significant financial contribution and then took over the office of Chairman of the Board of Directors .

In the 1920s and early 1930s, Walder defended Migros and Duttweiler in numerous sensational administrative, civil and criminal proceedings. With carefully planned provocations, authorities, manufacturers of branded goods and associations were challenged to lawsuits that were effectively promoted across several instances. The processes usually revolved around name protection, trademark protection and unfair competition , in most cases they went in favor of Migros. After the ban on branches by parliament in September 1933, he advised Duttweiler to use political means to counter the official harassment. Two years later, Walder ran for the National Council elections in 1935 on the "List of Independents" cited by Duttweiler. He was the editor of the weekly newspaper Die Tat , founded in 1935 , which appeared as a daily newspaper from 1939. At the end of December 1936 he was one of the founding members of the National Ring of Independents .

As a replacement for the resigned Franklin Bircher, Walder moved up to the National Council in July 1938 and represented the canton of Zurich ; he was re-elected in the National Council elections in 1939 . In 1940 he campaigned with a motion for the creation of an income replacement for self-employed military men. He advocated strengthening the air force and anti-aircraft troops , as well as supporting the creation of a private Swiss aircraft industry.

The joint work in the National Council resulted in a certain distance to Duttweiler. In particular, Walder spoke out against converting Migros from a stock corporation into a cooperative . When Duttweiler nevertheless made this step public on June 1, 1940, he left the company and then worked again as an independent lawyer. The final break came three years later when Duttweiler wanted to run for the National Council. Walder was one of those LdU parliamentary group members who accused him of arbitrariness and felt his social commitment as "sliding to the left". When the LdU assembly of delegates voted for Duttweiler's candidacy, Walder did not run for the 1943 National Council elections .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred A. Häsler : The Migros Adventure. The 60 year old idea . Ed .: Federation of Migros Cooperatives. Migros Presse, Zurich 1985, p. 41 .
  2. ^ Curt Riess : Gottlieb Duttweiler . Europa Verlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-905811-32-2 , pp. 130-133 .
  3. ^ Riess: Gottlieb Duttweiler. Pp. 195-196.
  4. ^ Riess: Gottlieb Duttweiler. P. 258.
  5. ^ Häsler: The Migros Adventure. Pp. 114-116.
personal data
SURNAME Walder, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wängi
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1972
Place of death Train (city)