Johann Jakob Rebmann

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Johann Jakob Rebmann (born September 5, 1846 in Diemtigen ; † August 14, 1932 there ) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ), farmer and cattle breeder . From 1883 to 1919 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of the farmer and governor Johann Rebmann attended secondary school in Wimmis and completed a year in Welschland with a cheese merchant in Château-d'Oex . He then worked on his parents' farm as a farmer and cattle breeder. In 1874 Rebmann was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern , to which he belonged until 1890; at the age of 28, he was the youngest member of the council. As his father's successor, he served as governor of the district of Niedersimmental from 1879 to 1884 . After the first unsuccessful attempt in the National Council elections in 1878 , Rebmann ran in a by-election in March 1883 and was elected in the Oberland constituency. He was re-elected twelve times in a row and was a member of the National Council until 1919.

Rebmann is considered a pioneer of modern cattle breeding in the Simmental and introduced the stud book for the Simmental Fleckvieh . He also promoted the development of the hospital in Erlenbach ; with brief interruptions, he was a member of various commissions for the hospital from 1879 to 1931. In order to promote the economic development of the Simmental, he initially advocated a narrow-gauge railway , but then changed his mind because a narrow-gauge railway was not suitable for transporting cattle and he saw cattle breeding as a more important branch of business than tourism. He supported the standard gauge Spiez-Erlenbach Railway , which opened in 1897, with considerable financial resources. He was chairman of the board of directors of this company, as well as board member of the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn . Rebmann operated the first power plant in Erlenbach and in 1899 co-founded a spa hotel on the Grimmialp at the very end of the Diemtigtal . To improve the development of the spa hotel, of which he was the sole owner from 1911, he bought two cars in 1920 and used them to operate a bus line through the Diemtigtal (replaced by postbuses in 1927 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Daniel Flückiger, Benjamin Steffen, Christian Pfister: Representatives of the authorities, people-oriented mediators - 200 years governor in the canton of Bern. (PDF, 530 kB) Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte, 2006, pp. 33–34 , accessed on November 17, 2014 .
  2. ^ The Oey – Grimmialp post bus line. (PDF, 399 kB) PostBus Bernese Oberland, July 24, 2003, accessed on November 17, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Rebmann, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician, farmer and cattle breeder
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Diemtigen
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1932
Place of death Diemtigen