Isaac Iselin-Sarasin
Isaak Iselin-Sarasin (born July 18, 1851 in Basel ; † July 16, 1930 there ) was a Swiss lawyer , politician and officer . Among other things, he worked as a member of the government of the canton of Basel-Stadt , as a national councilor and from 1910 to 1919 as president of the Swiss Red Cross .
Life
![Isaak Iselin-Sarasin (1851–1930) lawyer, councilor, national councilor, grave in Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Isaak_Iselin-Sarasin_%281851%E2%80%931930%29_Jurist%2C_Regierungsrat%2C_Nationalrat.jpg/220px-Isaak_Iselin-Sarasin_%281851%E2%80%931930%29_Jurist%2C_Regierungsrat%2C_Nationalrat.jpg)
Isaak Iselin completed a law degree , which he completed in 1875 with a doctorate at the University of Basel . He then worked as a lawyer and notary, as well as President of the Basel Civil Court from 1880 to 1893 and President of the Court of Appeal from 1906 to 1925 .
From 1878 to 1893 he was a member of the Grand Council , the parliament of the canton of Basel-Stadt, and its president in 1887 and 1891. From 1893 to 1906 he was a member of the cantonal government as a member of the cantonal government and served as the head of the Justice Department. He successfully ran for parliamentary elections in 1896 and was then a member of the National Council until 1917.
In 1910 Isaak Iselin-Sarasin took over the office of President of the Swiss Red Cross (SRK) after the death of Hans Konrad Pestalozzi . His successor in 1918 was the army doctor Karl Bohny, also from Basel .
In the Swiss Army , in which he reached the rank of Colonel Corps Commander , Isaak Iselin-Sarasin was in command of the fifth division from 1905 to 1912 and of the second army corps from 1912 to 1917 .
Isaak Iselin was one of the driving forces behind the realization of the Wehrmännerkmal (border occupation monument) on the Bruderholz battery system . This was designed by Louis Léon Weber and inaugurated on May 10, 1925.
literature
- Hans Adolf Vögelin: Dr. iur. Isaak Iselin-Sarasin, Corps Commander. In: Basel Army Leader from the Sonderbund War to the Second World War. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1963, pp. 64–71.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Altbasel: 1925, The military man monument by Louis Léon Weber. Retrieved August 18, 2019 .
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SURNAME | Iselin-Sarasin, Isaac |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss lawyer, politician and officer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1851 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1930 |
Place of death | Basel |