Johann Heinrich Ammann

Johann Heinrich Ammann (born October 10, 1820 in Schaffhausen ; † August 17, 1867 there ) was a Swiss lawyer and politician .

biography

Johann Heinrich Ammann studied at the Universities of Basel , Berlin and Heidelberg law . After he had joined the Swiss Zofinger Association in Basel , he joined the Corps Helvetia in Heidelberg in 1841 . He graduated with an iur. utr. consultus .

After a language stay in Lausanne, Ammann returned to his hometown. In 1845 and from 1850 to 1854 he was editor of the Schaffhauser Zeitung. From 1847 to 1855 he was a public prosecutor and from 1863 to 1866 chief judge.

As a politician, he was active at the communal as well as the cantonal and federal level. From 1851 to 1855 he was a member of the Small City Council of Schaffhausen. From 1866 to 1867 he was Mayor of Schaffhausen. He was a member of the government council of the canton of Schaffhausen from 1850 to 1852, from 1855 to 1859 and from 1864 to 1866. In the parliamentary elections in 1860 he was elected to the National Council, of which he was a member until 1863. From 1849 to 1855 and from 1857 to 1859 he was a member of the Council of States for the canton of Schaffhausen .

As an initially radical-liberal and from 1860 a liberal politician, Ammann advocated centralist reforms at cantonal and federal level from 1845. He was committed to connecting Schaffhausen to the transport network, including via the Rhine Falls Railway , the Swiss Northeast Railway and, on the German side, the Badische Bahn, and for the construction of the waterworks and the Moserdamm . Personally, he suffered heavy financial losses from investing in rail projects.

Web links

• Eduard Joos: Ammann, Johann Heinrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Heinrich Ammann in the digital Alfred Escher letter edition . Retrieved August 9, 2017.
2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 115 , 144