Joachim Wey

Joachim Wey (born December 12, 1774 in Villmergen ; † June 28, 1844 there ; entitled to live in Villmergen) was a Swiss politician and judge . From 1831 to 1837 he was Councilor of the Canton of Aargau .

biography

The son of the under-guard and miller Johannes Wey trained as a doctor and practiced from 1804. In the same year he was also admitted to the bar . From 1812 to 1837 he was a member of the district court in Bremgarten . In 1819 he was elected to the Grand Council . After the Freiamt storm of December 1830, when rebels from Wey's home region Freiamt overthrew the cantonal government, he was involved as a constitutional councilor in drafting a new cantonal constitution.

In 1831 the Great Council elected Wey to the cantonal government. In this he was mainly responsible for the health and poor sector, in addition he chaired several commissions. His liberal positions were often in opposition to the Catholic-conservative attitude of the majority of the free office population. In 1837 he left the government and was elected district administrator for the Bremgarten district.

In January 1841, Wey had prominent opponents of the abolition of the monasteries arrested by the Grand Council . When he resisted the forced liberation, he was beaten by the angry crowd; a pistol shot narrowly missed him. In the same year he resigned as a councilor and served as chief judge until his death.

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. 868-869 .

Web links

• Anton Wohler: Wey, Joachim. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .