Johann Ulrich Hanauer

Johann Ulrich Hanauer (born April 6, 1807 in Baden ; † December 8, 1871 there ; entitled to live in Baden) was a Swiss politician . From 1848 to 1851 he was a member of the National Council and from 1852 to 1868 he was a member of the canton of Aargau .

biography

Hanauer attended the canton school in Lucerne and then the theology school. He continued his studies at an unknown German university, but dropped out in 1831. He then worked as a teacher in Baden and was a member of the district school council from 1833. In 1841 he became the Stadtammann elected by bathing and held this office until 1852; The opening of the first Swiss railway line from Zurich to Baden ( Swiss Northern Railway ) and the construction of an institution for the deaf and dumb fell during his term of office .

In 1843 Hanauer was elected to the Grand Council , where he belonged to the radical-liberal parliamentary group. After the abolition of the monasteries , he served as administrator of the monastery property in Fahr and Baden until 1845 . In 1848 he was both President of the Grand Council and a member of the Federal Diet . He successfully ran the first parliamentary elections and represented Aargau in the National Council in the first legislative period of the new federal state until 1851 . As a constitutional councilor, he was also involved in drafting a new cantonal constitution from 1849 to 1841.

Hanauer was elected to the government council in 1852 and took over the education department according to his inclination. Five years later he changed departments and was henceforth responsible for finances. From 1858 he was a member of the board of directors of the Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB). Hanauer resigned as a member of the government in 1868, but remained on the NOB board of directors until his death.

literature

• Biographical Lexicon of the Canton of Aargau 1803–1957 . In: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau (Ed.): Argovia . tape 68/69 . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1958, p. 310-311 .
• Andreas Steigmeier : Hanauer, Johann Ulrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .