Jakob Anton Müller

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Jakob Anton Müller (* 1777 in Altdorf ( Canton Uri ); † September 21, 1848 ) was a Swiss politician.

Life

Jakob Anton Müller was born as the son of the Helvetic Senator Jost Anton Müller (* 1748 in Altdorf; † August 1, 1803 in Freiburg ) and his wife Waldburga, b. Gerig, daughter of Franz Heinrich Gerig, lieutenant colonel in the Neapolitan service, was born. He was married to Franziska Schmid, daughter of Anton Maria Schmid (1744–1808), from 1806.

In 1804 he was a major in the country and during the mediation period he was elected to the government council. From 1815 to 1817 he received the second dignity of the state as governor and was thus the representative of the governor . He was Mayor of Uri from 1817 to 1819 , during which time on May 3, 1818 the decision of the rural community of the canton Uri to make the Gotthardstrasse passable over the Gotthard Pass was passed. In the period between 1817 and 1837 he was a delegate to the Diet on several occasions ; In 1833, after the civil wars in the cantons of Basel and Schwyz, he was the first envoy from the canton of Uri to take part in the daily constitution in Zurich . From 1834 to 1838 he was the banner owner and from 1835 to 1845 he held the office of salt administrator (supervision of the salt trade).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MDZ reader | Band | New necrology of the Germans. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Urs Kälin: Jakob Anton Müller. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 22, 2007. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Urs Kälin: Jost Anton Müller. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 26, 2007. Retrieved October 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Jakob Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Altdorf
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1848
Place of death Altdorf