Johann Bossi

Johann Bossi also in the name variant Johann Bossi-Furger (born April 26, 1874 in Trieste , † April 19, 1956 in Chur ); entitled to live in Alvaschein and Surava , was a Swiss politician ( KVP ).

Life

Family and work

The catholic baptized Johann Bossi, born in Trieste, son of the hotelier Johann Bossi senior, attended the village school in Surava, then secondary schools in Merano in South Tyrol and in Freiburg . After acquiring the maturity he began studying law at the universities of Bern , Berlin and Freiburg in which he in 1900 with the promotion of Dr. iur. completed. He subsequently headed a law firm in Chur from 1903 .

Johann Bossi was the Valserin Antonia, daughter of businessman , married Alois Furger. He died in Chur in April 1956, one week before his 82nd birthday.

Political career

Johann Bossi, first as a member of the Catholic - Conservative , since its inception in 1912 the Swiss Conservative People's Party (KVP), was founded in 1905 as a representative of the district Alvaschein in the Grisons cantonal parliament elected the board it in the election year 1912-13 as a civil president. In 1915 he changed to Alois Steinhauser's successor in the Small Council , where he took over the finance and military department. During Johann Bossi's term of office in the government council, the final deliberations and the implementation of the tax law of 1918, but also the general strike of 1918 , which threw waves as far as Graubünden, took place. In 1919 he was elected to the National Council as the successor to the resigned Johann Schmid , where he sat until 1943. Bossi, who had to leave the government in 1920 after drawing lots, was then represented again in the Grisons Grand Council at cantonal level from 1921 to 1923 and 1931 to 1949.

Johann Bossi also presided over the Graubünden Conservative Democratic Party from 1909 to 1915, 1920 to 1923 and 1930 to 1942. From 1920 to 1940 he was represented on the party committee of the Swiss Conservative People's Party.

Johann Bossi held various board memberships, including at the Rhaetian Railway and the AG Bündner Kraftwerke . The renowned conservative politician Bossi was involved in the press, including for the Bündner Tagblatt , and in church committees, including the Corpus Catholicum .

literature

• Erich Gruner : The Swiss Federal Assembly 1848–1920. Volume 1, Francke, Bern 1966, p. 608.
• Markus Hodel: The Swiss Conservative People's Party, 1918–1929: the golden years of political Catholicism. University Press Freiburg, Freiburg, Switzerland, 1994, ISBN 3-7278-0908-6 , p. 261.

Web links

• Jürg Simonett: Bossi, Johann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Johann Bossi on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Publications by and about Johann Bossi in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library