Josef Leu (politician, 1800)

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Josef Leu

Josef Leu (* July 1, 1800 in the hamlet of Unter-Ebersol in the municipality of Hohenrain ; † July 20, 1845 ibid), whose name is often mentioned with the Ebersol designation of origin , was a Swiss politician in the canton of Lucerne .

biography

Leu was a conservative Catholic and was under the influence of the pious farmer and charismatic healer Niklaus Wolf von Rippertschwand . Since 1839 he called for the Jesuits to be appointed to the Lucerne College of Education. When this came about in 1844, that was the reason for the free crowd marches .

Under the leadership of Leu, the Ruswil Declaration was drawn up on November 5, 1840 in the Gasthaus Rössli , and a little later the Ruswil Association was founded in the same place as the Swiss Conservative People's Party , today's Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) .

The political climate in the run-up to the Sonderbund War was extremely tense. On the night of July 19-20, 1845 at 0:15 am, Leu was murdered while sleeping in his bed by the radical farmer Jakob Müller, who was shot in the heart.

Leu's daughter Marie Leu von Ebersol married the Sursee politician and large farmer Franz Xaver Beck .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Back then on July 20. In: Journal21 . July 20, 2020, accessed August 23, 2020 .
  2. M. Ammann: The criminal procedure against Jakob Müller von Stechenrain, in the canton of Lucerne, murderer of blessed Mr. Grossrath Leu von Ebersol . Verlag von Friedrich Schultheß, Zurich 1846 ( limited preview in Google book search).