Johann Closer

Johann Näher (born April 29, 1854 in Müllheim , † March 30, 1936 in Biel , buried Catholic , Christian Catholic , entitled to live in Müllheim) was a Swiss politician (SP) .

Life

Johann Näher was born on April 29, 1854 in Müllheim as the son of the bricklayer Johannes Näher and Elisabetha, born Hagenbüchli. Closer completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter in Romanshorn . As a result, he worked in his learned profession, first in Olten , Grenchen and Burgdorf, and finally from 1875 to 1922 in Biel.

Johann Näher married Crescentia, the daughter of Fridolin Strittmatter, in 1879. He died on March 30, 1936, one month before his 82nd birthday in Biel.

Political career

At the beginning of his political career, Johann Näher, a member of the Social Democratic Party, was elected to the Biel City Council in 1893 , where he was represented until 1911. Immediately afterwards, he served until 1920 as a part-time Bieler council . At the same time, he sat in the Bernese Grand Council between 1898 and 1918 . In the parliamentary elections in 1911 , he succeeded in entering the National Council , to which he was a member until 1917. In 1911 he was President of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.

In addition, Näher was employed as secretary from 1898 and as president of the Swiss Grütliverein from 1908 to 1911 . Johann Näher played a key role in building up the Biel labor movement .

literature

• Seeland People's Voice of April 1, 1936
• Erich Gruner , Karl Frei: The Swiss Federal Assembly 1848–1920. Francke, Bern 1966, page 207

Web links

• Diego Hättenschwiler: Closer, Johann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .