Johannes Trümpy

Johannes Trümpy (born May 13, 1798 in Ennenda ; † May 18, 1861 ibid) was a Swiss politician , judge and doctor . From 1851 to 1857 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

Born the son of a doctor and politician, Trümpy studied pharmacy and chemistry after attending secondary school in Glarus and then medicine at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen . During his studies in 1817 he became a member of the Arminia Erlangen fraternity . He was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . From 1818, like his father before him, he practiced as a doctor in Ennenda, but also in Glarus and from 1840 as a spa doctor in the Stachelbergbad near Linthal . From 1829 to 1831 he also worked as an editor for the “Public Gazette”, and from 1837 he was President of the Glarus Criminal Court. In 1827 he was elected to the District Administrator of the Canton of Glarus , to which he belonged for over three decades until his death.

As an actuary on the Revision Commission, Trümpy played a key role in drafting the canton's liberal constitution in 1836. In the 1840s he positioned himself as a staunch opponent of the Sonderbund . After the Sonderbund War in November 1847, he stayed as federal commissioner in the canton of Uri . He ran successfully in the National Council elections in 1851 , and resigned six years later. Trümpy worked in the non-profit society and was president of the Glarus Medical Society. He was also a co-founder of the Swiss Mobiliarversicherung and the cantonal savings fund (predecessor of the Glarner Kantonalbank ).

Trümpy died in 1861 from injuries sustained in the fire in Glarus .

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 64.

Web links

• Hans Laupper, Veronika Feller-Vest: Trümpy, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .