Josef Albisser

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Josef Albisser (born February 25, 1868 in Büron ; † September 25, 1943 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss lawyer and politician.

Life

Josef Albisser was the son of the liberal teacher of the same name, Josef Albisser, and his wife Sophie (née Winterhalder).

He initially studied law and economics at the University of Leipzig and continued at the University of Munich and the University of Bern .

In 1892 he was admitted to the bar in Lucerne and was an advocate from 1895 to 1915 . From 1917 to 1929 he was a judge and until 1922 President of the Federal Insurance Court .

Josef Albisser remained unmarried throughout his life.

Political and social work

Josef Albisser was a member of the school administration in Lucerne and founded the SP Lucerne in the 1890s. From 1899 to 1915 he was a member of the great city council of Lucerne, then from 1915 to 1917 city ​​council and from 1927 to 1935 local citizen council as well as Lucerne city council several times between 1894 and 1935 . In 1901 he took over the office of chairman of the SP Switzerland from Otto Lang and was its first official president until 1902.

He was a co-founder of the Workers' Union of Swiss Transport Agencies (AUST), of which he was central president from 1898 to 1902 and then from 1909.

From 1912 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss Accident Insurance Fund (SUVA), during which time he was also its President from 1915 to 1917.

His law firm in Lucerne was a center of the SP Lucerne and was called the "red Vatican".

Writing

From 1893 to 1900 Josef Albisser was the editor of the worksheet Democrat and journalist for the workers' press. He also studied the history of newspaper writing and published some travelogues.

Honors

After his death, Josef Albisser was described in the workers' newspaper Freie Innerschweiz as the patriarch and most loyal servant of the SP .

Memberships

Josef Albisser was the central president of the Grütliverein .

Fonts (selection)

  • On the history of the Lucerne newspaper industry . 1890.
  • Josef Albisser; Eduard Arnold : The proceedings before the Federal Insurance Court including the Federal Council resolutions of December 26, 1917, as well as January 4 and April 6, 1918 . Zurich: Orell Füssli, 1918.
  • Under the blue sky of Provence . Lucerne: Union Printing House, 1926.
  • On the way: Travel memories from the south and north: Balearic Islands - in spring - Around Western Europe: Genoa-Algiers-Amsterdam-Brussels - Norway in late summer . Lucerne: Union Printing House, 1936.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss Federal Supreme Court - list of former insurance court presidents. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ Walter Troxler: Jan Bloch and the International War and Peace Museum in Lucerne . LIT Verlag Münster, 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-80025-1 , p. 121 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Lucerne - insurance capital of Switzerland. Retrieved November 2, 2019 .
predecessor Office Successor
Otto Lang President of the SP Switzerland
1901–1902 		Gottfried Reimann
personal data
SURNAME Albisser, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albisser, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Office
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1943
Place of death Lucerne