Josef Guldin

Josef Guldin (born April 11, 1811 in Marbach , Baden (today municipality of Öhningen ), † January 22, 1898 in Mels ) was a Swiss politician . From 1857 to 1860 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

He was the son of a councilor to the Baden Grand Duke Karl Friedrich . The family moved to Wittenbach in the canton of St. Gallen , where they were naturalized in 1813. Guldin worked as a lawyer in Mels from 1832 . He was a member of the Board of Education from 1833 to 1835, and from 1844 to 1855 he was district governor of the Sargans district . After 1850 he founded a weaving mill with his nephew Wilhelm Good (later the National Council) .

Guldin was a supporter of Catholic Conservatives and was 1845 in the Grand Council voted, which it initially belonged to 1848, then from 1851 to 1855 and finally in 1857 From 1855 to 1864 he held office until 1864 as mayor of the municipality of Mels that it Made an honorary citizen in 1857. After two unsuccessful candidacies in 1848 and 1854, Guldin was elected in the National Council elections in 1857 in the constituency of St. Gallen-South . Three years later he failed to be re-elected, and in 1863 he had no chance either. From 1859 to 1862 and from 1876 to 1885 Guldin presided over the Sargans District Court and from 1861 to 1870 the Catholic College .

Web links

• Paul Oberholzer: Guldin, Josef. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .