Johann Jakob Trog

Johann Jakob Trog (born April 19, 1807 in Olten ; † January 7, 1867 in Basel ) was a Swiss politician and judge . From 1848 to 1857 he was a member of the National Council (in 1852 as President of the National Council ).

biography

The son of a wine merchant attended the monastery school in Einsiedeln , as an autodidact he did legal studies and then worked as a lawyer. Inspired by the July Revolution of 1830 , there was also a liberal turnaround in the canton of Solothurn . Trog took part in the people's day in Balsthal , which resulted in the resignation of the conservative government and the drafting of a new cantonal constitution. In 1831 he was elected to the Solothurn Grand Council , to which he belonged continuously until 1853 (from 1841 he was President of the Grand Council every other year). From 1841 to 1853 he was the court president of the Olten-Gösgen office , and in 1832, 1840 and 1848 he represented the canton of Solothurn as an envoy to the parliament .

As a Grand Councilor, Trog successfully campaigned for the replacement of tithe and land interest in the canton of Solothurn. But he is particularly known as a promoter of railway construction. In 1846 he was one of the founders of the first Centralbahn company, which aimed to build the Basel – Olten railway line , but soon had to cease operations. He later co-founded the Basel-Olten railway association. In October 1848 Trog ran successfully in the first parliamentary elections , in 1852 he was President of the National Council . From 1852 to 1856 he was a judge at the Federal Supreme Court and presided over it in 1854.

Due to his close ties to the business world of Basel , Trog continued to stick to a route through the Hauenstein , despite resistance from the canton capital Solothurn , which feared that it would miss the connection to the emerging Swiss railway network. In March 1853 Trog was elected Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Central Railway and moved to Basel. The Centralbahn prevailed with its concept and Olten, to the annoyance of Solothurn, became a railway junction. In Solothurn there was a grudge against the “big capitalist gentlemen's railways” that had defied the majority of the Grand Council. Trog felt this when he failed to be re- elected in the National Council elections in 1857 .

literature

Max Studer : Johann Jakob Trog In: Oltner Neujahrsblätter , Vol. 6, 1948, pp. 27–42.

Web links

• Hans Brunner: Trog, Johann Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The "ugly duckling" and the "unlucky one" - Olten and Solothurn in the railway drama of 1852. (No longer available online.) Oltner Neujahrsblätter, 2007, archived from the original on December 11, 2014 ; Retrieved December 8, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.