José Python

José Python

José Python (actually Stanislas Paul Joseph Python , born February 1, 1901 in Friborg ; † July 8, 1976 there) was a Swiss politician ( CVP ) and State Councilor of the Canton of Friborg .

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Python, a Catholic by birth , was a citizen of Portalban . His parents were the State Councilor Georges Python and Marie Elisabeth b. Wuilleret, daughter of Louis , national councilor and leader of the Conservatives. Stanislas Paul Joseph Python, usually called José, remained unmarried.

After six years of school at the St. Michael College , José Python moved to the College in Einsiedeln , where he perfected his knowledge of German and passed the Matura . Returning to Freiburg, he studied law at the university and at the same time helped his sick father, who continued to work as education director. After receiving his Rechtslizentiats 1927, he completed an internship in the law firm of Ernest Lorson and acquired in 1930 admitted to the bar. In 1928/29 he was the central president of the Swiss Student Union , which his father had already headed in 1879 and his older brother Louis in 1915. In 1930 he opened a law firm in Freiburg, which he shared with Louis for a time. In 1931 he became President of the Saane District Court and two years later a federal judge . José closed his office and took over the general secretariat of the Freiburg Electricity Works. In 1943 he was appointed judge at the Cantonal Court, which he headed in 1950.

In 1946, José Python was elected to the Grand Council . In the cantonal elections of 1951 he ran for the Council of State , was elected and confirmed in his office in 1956, as in 1961. He headed the Education and Culture Directorate and was President of the State Council twice, in 1956 and 1962. The balance of his 15 years in government (1952–1966) can be summed up in a few words: no referendum to confirm his work, but 27 laws and decrees that he submitted to the Grand Council. The laws included those on the cantonal study fund and the organization of the canton's Evangelical Reformed Church (1966). The decrees concerned in particular the subsidies for various school buildings (1957, 1964, 1965), the expansion of the boarding school of St. Michael's College (1955), the technical center (1956, 1960), the botanical garden (1965), the conservatory and the museum for art and history (1965). He launched the construction of the university canteen (1965) and had the organ of the Hauterive abbey church installed in the collegiate church of St. Michael (1952). In 1967 he resigned from the State Council.

José Python died on July 8, 1976 at the age of 75 in Freiburg. He left the memory of an exemplary son and, as the press read, a "conservative of the strictest observance" who had supported Joseph Piller in 1946 .

literature

• Georges Andrey , Hubertus von Gemmingen (translation): The Freiburg State Council: 1848–2011; History, organization, members . Ed .: John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand, Nicholas Gex. Paulus, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7228-0815-4 .

Web link

• Georges Andrey / GL: Python, José. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .