Joachim Leonz Eder

Joachim Leonz Eder (born February 13, 1772 in Flüelen , † March 4, 1848 in Bischofszell ) was a Swiss lawyer and politician.

Life

Joachim Leonz Eder was born as the son of Kaspar Leonz Eder and his wife Maria Helena Schmid. He attended the Solothurn grammar school from 1785 to 1789 and studied theology there from 1789 at the Lyceum , but gave up his studies in 1794 and was temporarily tutor.

Helvetic Republic and mediation time

In 1798 he was a sympathizer of the Patriot Party and from 1798 to 1803 he was employed as the secretary of the Solothurn deputy.

He trained autodidactically in legal studies with legal scholars and practiced as a legal scholar. In Solothurn he soon gained a good reputation and was entrusted with difficult legal disputes that made him a wealthy man. In 1807 he had the Ederhof built in Solothurn.

Restoration time

In 1814 the mediation government in Solothurn was forcibly overthrown, and with the restoration of the old conditions, the estates separated themselves from one another. The supporters of the overthrown government, under which Joachim Leonz Eder was at the head, united in a conspiracy, and on the night of June 2, 1814, citizens, led by former members of the government, occupied the walls and the armory; they set up a provisional government commission and submitted a liberal draft constitution. Due to the danger of approaching troops from Bern , the provisional government commission under the leadership of Joachim Leonz Eder and the later Federal Councilor Josef Munzinger negotiated with the state commission. This promised to appeal to the government for a general amnesty, for the abolition of the subject relationship and the participation of the people's representatives in the legislative process. The Provisional Government then dissolved.

The constitution was later changed, but the leaders of the insurrection were to be brought to justice. Thereupon Joachim Leonz Eder fled and was announced for arrest with ten other people involved. A bounty of 100 Louis d'or was written out on him, “ because of his ongoing activities against the cities of Bern and Solothurn ”. After another partial amnesty, he returned.

On November 12, 1814, the rebels rose, again with Joachim Leonz Eder's participation; however, the survey was suppressed. Because this uprising was primarily carried out by Joachim Leonz Eder, the government banned him from the canton. He then leased his estate and settled and naturalized in the canton of Thurgau , where he practiced as a lawyer at Castle Wellenberg , which he acquired on November 17, 1815, and became the canton's procurator in 1824 . At first he refrained from any political activity.

regeneration

In 1830, constitutional and government changes were sought in several cantons, plus the fall of the Bourbons in France . An opposition formed in the canton of Thurgau under the leadership of Thomas Bornhauser and Joachim Leonz Eder, which showed that the constitutional thinking of the pioneer of the regeneration movement was strongly influenced by French influences. From this a popular movement developed in the canton, which became the norm-setting popular assembly in Weinfelden for the rest of Switzerland , from which the constitutional council was shaped with the participation of Joachim Leonz Eder; He is considered to be the creator of the Thurgau regeneration constitution, and the Education Council and the constitutional obligation of the Canton of Thurgau to work towards federal reform go back to him. He also had the idea of ​​forming a three-member Grand Council Committee as a permanent fourth or supervisory authority, but this was only partially implemented. He later became President of the Higher Court (1831-1847), Thurgau Cantonal Council (1831-1848), Educational Council (1831-1841) and was several times delegate to the Diet (1832, 1833 and 1835)

At the end of 1832 he was delegated to Basel as federal commissioner by the Diet in der Wirren. There he gave the council the advice to divide the two divided cantons in order to restore peace. In this process of division with the city of Basel, known as the “ Basler canton separation ”, he was then elected arbitrator.

When, at the beginning of 1840, the political movement changed into an ecclesiastical one, in which the antagonism between Catholics and Protestants became more and more prominent and the monasteries of the canton of Aargau were abolished and those of Thurgau were being prepared for abolition, he took up the opposition in the cantonal council about and stood up for the Catholic interests. He was then expelled from his party. In 1847 he lost his position at the higher court. In October 1847 he spoke out against the Sonderbund War in the assembly of the Cantonal Council .

He died in the house of a clergyman in Bischofszell.

Joachim Leonz Eder had been married to Elise Johanna Disteli, a sister of Martin Disteli , since 1835 . With this he lived in Felben-Wellhausen near Frauenfeld at the Wellenberg Castle , which he had bought.

literature

• Verena Jacobi, Joachim Leonz Eder, Erna Eder-Kaiser: Joachim Leonz Eder: 1772–1848. State Archives Thurgau , Frauenfeld approx. 1970.
• Rolf Soland : Joachim Leonz Eder and regeneration in Thurgau 1830–1831. A chapter from the constitutional history of Thurgau. Weinfelden 1980 (also PhD I from the University of Zurich ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eder. In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Voigt, Weimar 1850, pp. 952–955 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
2. ^ André Salathé: Joachim Leonz Eder. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 7, 2005. Retrieved October 19, 2017 .
3. ^ Gregor Spuhler: Wellenberg (TG). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 24, 2012 , accessed October 20, 2017 .