Jakob Isler

This article describes the man born in 1809. For his similarly named grandfather see Jacob Isler .

Jakob Isler (born October 27, 1809 in Wohlen , † April 17, 1862 there ; entitled to live in Wohlen) was a Swiss politician and industrialist in the straw industry . He was a member of both the National Council and the Council of States .

biography

The grandson of Jacob Isler , who is considered a pioneer of the international trade in straw hats and braids, completed a commercial training in Paris in 1826/27 . There he met Jakob Robert Steiger , who later became the leader of the second free group . On his return he entered his father's business and soon took on public duties in the community. From 1841 to 1847 he was a district administrator. In the military he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and led a rifle company in the Sonderbund War .

In 1844 Isler, one of the leading liberals in the Catholic-conservative Freiamt , was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau. From 1848 to 1851 he was also a member of the National Council and from 1849 to 1851 also a member of the Aargau Constitutional Council. In 1856, out of consideration for the company and the family, he refused to be elected to the cantonal government. In 1860 he was elected to the Council of States by the Grand Council , of which he was a member until his death.

His son, Peter Emil Isler , who was born in 1851, also represented the canton of Aargau in the National Council and Council of States.

literature

• 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. 411 .
• H. Lehmann: The beginnings of the Freiämter straw industry. In: In: Schweizer Illustrierte , Vol. 1, 1897, pp. 101–105.

Web links

• Sarah Brian Scherer: Isler, Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .