Johann Rudolf Schneider

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Johann Rudolf Schneider (born October 23, 1804 in Meienried ; † January 14, 1880 ) was a Swiss doctor and the leading political initiator of the Jura water correction .

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Monument in Nidau

Life

Johann Rudolf Schneider studied medicine in Bern and Berlin . During his student days he joined the Swiss Zofingerverein . In 1828 he settled in Nidau , where he opened a medical practice. As a member of the protection association , he was committed to the drainage of the Zealand. As early as 1834 Jan Pawel Lelewel , who was previously an engineer officer, was commissioned with a project to correct the waters of the Jura. The plans are not convincing, however, and the cantons involved cannot agree. In 1835 his book Conversations about the Floods in Zealand was published. A year later he was appointed to the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern, where in 1837 he arranged for the planning and execution of the Jura water correction to be entrusted to a private organization. In 1840 he founded the “Preparatory Society for the Jura Water Correction”, which commissioned the cantonal engineer Richard La Nicca from Graubünden to work out a project. In the political turmoil of the 1840s, the project was no longer pursued. Only after the founding of the federal state and in the wake of major floods in the 1850s was the Jura water correction ripe for ruling again. The project, in which the engineer Gustave Bridel was also involved, finally began in 1868 with the construction of the Nidau-Büren Canal.

Schneider was a philanthropist and a pioneer of the liberal movement. In the 1930s he supported political emigrants such as Giuseppe Mazzini , Ernst Schüler, Karl Mathy and Jan Pawel Lelewel , who lived in exile in the Biel region . Schneider bought his own printing house, which he made available to the emigrants to print their political writings. He himself published an enlightening periodical for a lump under the title Volksbibliothek for ten years . The printing company was later continued by his political comrade August Weingart. Schneider was a member of the Bern government from 1838 to 1850 . In this function, in 1847, together with Ulrich Ochsenbein and Jakob Stämpfli, he headed the memorable Diet in Bern, which resolved the Sonderbund War and thus laid the foundation for the modern federal state .

In 1848 Schneider ran for the first parliamentary elections and became a member of the National Council , of which he was a member until 1862. He belonged to the radical wing of the liberals . When there was a change of power in the elections in the canton of Bern in 1850, Schneider left the government. In autumn 1850 he was appointed to the Inselspital as a doctor . He died in 1880 and was buried in the Bremgarten cemetery in Bern. After his grave was lifted in 1918, his remains were buried at the memorial in Nidau.

Works

  • Schneider, Johann Rudolf: The Zealand of western Switzerland and the corrections of its waters. A memorandum. , Bern 1881

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Rudolf Schneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Zürcher: Schneider, Johann Rudolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Johann Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Meienried
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1880