Josef Franz Karl Amrhyn

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Josef Franz Karl Amrhyn

Josef Franz von Sales Johann Baptist Karl Nikolaus von Flüe Amrhyn (born February 11, 1800 in Lucerne ; †  April 7, 1849 there ; entitled to live in Lucerne) was a Swiss civil servant . He was Federal Chancellor from 1831 to 1847 .

biography

The son of the President of the Diet, Josef Karl Amrhyn, attended the school run by Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in Yverdon Castle from 1810 to 1812 , and later graduated from high school in Lucerne. From 1823 he studied law at the Universities of Göttingen , Freiburg and Paris . In 1822 he joined the old Freiburg fraternity . In 1824 he was appointed deputy interrogator in Lucerne and played a controversial role in the trial of the murder of Schultheiss Franz Xaver Keller .

In 1825 Amrhyn joined the Federal Chancellery and, as state clerk, was the closest collaborator of Federal Chancellor Jean-Marc Mousson . The assembly elected him in 1830 as his successor. The moderately liberal Amrhyn was considered a conscientious administrator and was re-elected without opposition in the following years. He disapproved of the aims of the Sonderbund , but resigned on November 4, 1847, because of a conscience he did not want to countersign the declaration of war resolved by the Diet.

Amrhyn's body was recovered from the Reuss in Lucerne on April 7, 1849 . There were no signs of external violence, but it remained unclear whether he had had an accident or drowned himself.

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  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 20-21.
personal data
SURNAME Amrhyn, Josef Franz Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amrhyn, Josef Franz von Sales Johann Baptist Karl Nikolaus von Flüe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Federal Chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1849
Place of death Lucerne