Johann August Weingart

Johann August Weingart

Johann August Weingart (born August 17, 1797 in the canton of Neuchâtel , † January 28, 1878 probably in Bern ) was a Swiss politician . From 1848 to 1860 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

Weingart probably grew up in La Chaux-de-Fonds , where he must have attended schools. He later moved to Zealand and worked as a teacher at the village school of Grossaffoltern until 1830 . He then taught French and geography at the Progymnasium in Biel . He spread radical liberal political views and therefore lost his job in 1836. Weingart then worked as managing director of a printing company and the liberal newspaper Seeländer Anzeiger . In Bern he worked as a printer, publisher, journalist and translator in the Grand Council until 1862 .

Under the code name Brother Jonathan , Weingart was one of the three leaders of Junge Schweiz , a radical organization inspired by Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Europe . He was also a member of the Swiss National Association. In 1845 he took part in the second free march to Lucerne . In the same year he was elected to the Grand Council, to which he belonged until 1854. As a constitutional councilor, he was involved in drafting a new liberal cantonal constitution in 1846. In October 1848 he ran in the first national council elections and was elected in the constituency of Mittelland (in the fifth ballot). Weingart represented a secularized Christianity and strove to perfect the human being through education. In 1860 he resigned as a national councilor.

Web links

• Christoph Zürcher: Weingart, Johann August. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .