Jean-Jacques-Denis Mauron

Jean-Jacques-Denis Mauron (born October 8, 1810 in Arconciel , † January 25, 1885 in Avry-devant-Pont ) was a Swiss politician and State Councilor of the canton of Friborg .

Life

Mauron was a Catholic and came from Sâles in the parish of Ependes ( Saane district ). His parents were Ignace Mauron, a schoolteacher, and Marguerite nee. Kolly. He married Anna-Maria Eggendorfer, from Freiburg , on whose country estate in Avry-devant-Pont the couple settled around 1840.

Intended for the priesthood, he attended the College of St. Michael from 1825 to 1833 with unsatisfactory results and then studied with more success from 1833 to 1835 in Vienna. From 1835 to 1838 he worked as a tutor for Prince Yusupov in St. Petersburg . After Freiburg returned, he studied from 1838 to 1841 at the Academy of Law with Professor Jean-François-Marcellin Buzzard .

He went through a cantonal military career : lieutenant during the Sonderbund War (1847), captain Aide- Major (1849), battalion commander (1857) and finally lieutenant colonel in the cantonal general staff (1858).

Mauron showed great interest in literature and art. He promoted the publication of the French version of Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell by becoming a publisher in Paris. He was a member and twice very active president of the Friborg Société d'études, led by Alexandre Daguet, and one of the founding members of the Société d'histoire du canton de Friborg , as its secretary from 1849 to 1858. He conducted research on the Burgundian Wars (1474–1477).

Political career

Mauron a liberal who developed into a moderate radical. During the radical uprising in January 1847, he showed little enthusiasm to take his place again. From 1847 to 1861 he sat on the Grand Council. There he distinguished himself by his intellectual independence and his temperance, in particular by rejecting the abolition of the monasteries and continuing to allow the clergy a role in education. The electoral college appointed him judge at the District Court of Gruyères (1848–1849). On June 8, 1849 he was appointed provisional secretary of the Justice Directorate and on February 1, 1850 to the Secretary of the Police Directorate. He resigned from his judicial office and settled in the canton's capital.

Mauron was elected to the Council of State on June 12, 1854 in the third ballot with 37 of 59 votes, as the successor to the resigned Georges Clément , who refused to be re-elected. Previously, the Sensler Christoph Marro and Charles Egger, who had been elected one after the other into the government, had also rejected the mandate. On November 27, 1855, Mauron was re-elected in the fourth ballot with 44 of 65 votes. He belonged to the moderate wing of the radicals, which could easily come to terms with the presence of the liberal-conservatives François-Xavier Bondallaz and Alfred Vonderweid in the executive branch. Defeated in the Great Council elections of December 1856, he nonetheless came back as an indirect member of the cantonal parliament. The liberal-conservative Grand Council valued Mauron's moderation, his skills and his great education. To his surprise, he was appointed seventh member of the new Council of State in the election of June 4, 1857 in the second ballot with 45 of 75 votes.

From 1854 to 1861 Mauron was the director of the interior. During his time, a regulation on subsidies for cattle breeding (1857) and a decree on the mass of straw braids (1860) came into force. He went to great lengths to convince farmers to take part in important events such as the Concours agricole in Paris in 1856 or the industrial, commercial and agricultural exhibition in Bern in 1857. He also used his relationships with the Russian nobility to promote the export of Friborg cheese to the empire of Alexander II . Mauron closely monitored the administration of the communities and their poor affairs by guiding and advising them. He had statistics of statutory welfare drawn up and the assets of the municipalities surveyed, which in 1857 amounted to an astonishing CHF 22,957,000.

In 1861, the outbreak of a mental illness meant the end of his varied activities. Mauron retired to his country estate in Avry-devant-Pont , where he was looked after by his family. He died on January 25, 1885 at the age of 75.

literature

• Georges Andrey , John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand et Nicolas Gex: The Freiburg Council of State: 1848–2011. History, organization, members . Editions La Sarine, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-2-88355-153-4 .