Johann Matthias Hungerbühler

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Johann Matthias Hungerbühler (born September 2, 1805 in Wittenbach , † July 14, 1884 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss politician . From 1848 to 1875 he was a member of the National Council (1852/53 as President of the National Council ). From 1838 to 1859, 1862 to 1864 and 1873 to 1878 he was a member of the government of the canton of St. Gallen .

biography

The son of a doctor attended the Catholic high school in St. Gallen. From 1822 to 1830 he studied theology , philosophy and law at the universities of Freiburg , Geneva and Paris . Although he did not graduate in the latter subject, he worked as a lawyer in St. Gallen from 1831 . From 1835 to 1838 he served as state clerk . Hungerbühler, who represented radical liberal views, was elected to the St. Gallen Great Council in 1835 , to which he belonged continuously until 1870 and again from 1873 to 1878. In 1865 he was President of the Grand Council.

The Grand Council elected Hungerbühler to the government council for the first time in 1838. He was a member initially until 1859, a second time from 1862 to 1864 and finally from 1873 to 1878. During this time he was responsible for six different departments (justice, police, home affairs, construction, finance, education), ten times he was the Cantonal government as Landammann . From 1859 to 1861 he was a member of the Constitutional Council and from 1864 to 1873 he presided over the cantonal court . Hungerbühler, who approached the liberal center around 1866, campaigned for a state church based on the Josephine model. Another important concern was the introduction of a denominationally neutral grammar school, which was realized in 1856 in the form of the canton school on Burggraben . During the Kulturkampf he turned decisively against ultramontanism .

Hungerbühler held his first office at the federal level in 1847/48, as the federal representative in the canton of Schwyz after the dissolution of the Sonderbund . In 1848 he was the St. Gallen delegate to the Diet . In October of the same year he ran for the first National Council elections and was elected in the constituency of St. Gallen-Northwest . He was re-elected eight times in a row. In 1852/53 he was President of the National Council . In 1855 he ran unsuccessfully as a Federal Councilor . In the National Council elections in 1875 , he was no longer re-elected in view of stiff Catholic-conservative competition.

Hungerbühler described, among other things, the placement in psychiatry. He criticized: "" There was no mention of any supervision and control of the state over these private establishments, which are often more aimed at acquisition than for therapeutic purposes. Abuse of the insane, unlawful recordings etc. were possible without the police and medical authorities in the The least concerned about it. (...) How many private establishments may have been and may still be abused to give individuals into them who were inconvenient to their families - which one wanted to inherit or eliminate for some selfish intentions! "

Works

  • About the public insanity in Switzerland. 1846

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beatrix Mesmer : Jakob Stämpfli . In: Urs Altermatt (Ed.): Das Bundesratslexikon . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 , p. 76 .
  2. ^ About the public insane system in Switzerland. 1846, pages 15 and 16.
personal data
SURNAME Hungerbühler, Johann Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenbach
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1884
Place of death St. Gallen