Johann Ulrich Sauter

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Johann Ulrich Sauter (born November 20, 1752 in Arbon ; † March 27, 1824 there ) was a Swiss politician.

biography

Johann Ulrich Sauter, son of the copper engraver Johann Georg Sauter, married Dorothea Waser from Zurich in 1784, daughter of the pastor Johann Jakob Waser. Sauter was a cloth merchant and from 1783 to 1798 Arbon town clerk, and 1798 governor of the Helvetian district of Arbon . In place of Johann Jakob Gonzenbach , Johann Ulrich Sauter was appointed governor of the Helvetic canton of Thurgau in 1799 and exercised this office alongside a brief reactionary interlude in the autumn of 1802 from 1800 to 1803.

In March 1803, as President of the Government Commission in the canton of Thurgau, Sauter led the transition from Helvetic to mediation . At the same time he was elected to the Thurgau Grand Council and was its president in April. He rejected the election to the Small Council . Sauter resigned from the Grand Council in June 1803. From 1803 to 1816 he was district president and from 1816 to 1824 senior bailiff of the Arbon district. 1813-1818 he was again a member of the Grand Council. In the constitutional commission of 1814 he fought against the restorative tendencies. Sauter was considered a moderate Unitarian who tried to avoid the occupation of Thurgau by foreign troops.

literature

  • Willy Wuhrmann: Johann Ulrich Sauter. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 8, 1932, pp. 7-10 ( e-periodica )

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personal data
SURNAME Sauter, Johann Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Arbon
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1824
Place of death Arbon