Joseph Schumacher-Uttenberg

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Josef Schumacher-Uttenberg

Josef Xaver Leodegar Franz Schumacher [-Uttenberg] (* May 2, 1793 in Lucerne ; † October 30, 1860 there , entitled to reside in Lucerne) was a Swiss lawyer , military and politician (liberal).

He was President of the Lucerne Government and Council of States as well as Colonel and Division Commander. His career falls into the time of the Restoration of 1815 and that of the revolutions of 1830 and 1848. In winter he lived in his house on Kapellplatz and in summer he spent at the Utenberg manor or the Meggerhorn manor. His epitaph stands under the halls in the courtyard of St. Leodegar not far from the Zinggentore in a row with the actors of his time.

Life

Joseph Schumacher-Uttenberg, born as Joseph Xaver Leodegar Franz Schumacher, came from the patrician family (von) Schumacher and was born as the son of Franz Josef Alois Schumacher and Salesia Schumacher, née Keller. After a baptism ceremony, his father drowned in the Reuss in 1799 , which, due to the political situation following the reintroduction of the patriciate constitution, led to the suspicion of an assassination attempt ( basement trial ), and the boy grew up with his mother's family. Eight years later, his mother, the sister of the liberal mayor Franz Xaver Keller , died in whose house he now grew up. He attended grammar school in Lucerne and then completed a commercial training in Lausanne .

In 1813, during the final battle against Napoleon , Schumacher did military service in Graubünden as quartermaster in the battalion of his later father-in-law Lieutenant Colonel Josef Müller-Altdorf. After the patrician constitution was restored in Lucerne in 1814 under Vinzenz Rüttimann , he became a major in the staff of his cousin General Niklaus Franz von Bachmann . In 1815, during the federal occupation of Geneva, he was assigned to the brigade commander Colonel Ludwig von Sonnenberg , who would later become the general in Naples. Afterwards he was appointed colonel and military inspector. In 1830, as an instructor at the military school in Thun, he met the future Emperor of the French, Napoleon III, who was serving as a captain in the 3rd Bern artillery regiment. Colonel Guillaume Henri Dufour , who later became a general in the Sonderbund War, was also an instructor at the military school . In 1848 Colonel Schumacher became division commander in Ticino and Graubünden.

Schumacher-Uttenberg was active at the communal and cantonal level: From 1822 to 1825 he was a judge at the district court of the city of Lucerne; this he also presided over from 1848 to 1854. He was on the administrative council of the city of Lucerne from 1822 to 1828, was elected to the city council (city government) in 1834 and served as city ​​president of Lucerne from 1845 to 1847 . As a city council, he resigned on January 2, 1848. From 1825 to 1841 and from 1845 to 1860 he was a member of the Lucerne Grand Council . In 1826 Schumacher was elected to the Kleinrat, in 1839 he became mayor of the canton of Lucerne and in 1830, after the new patrician constitution was repealed, a member of the constitutional council, president of the military cantonal administration and a member of the federal military supervisory authority.

After the victory of the conservatives, which ended with the Sonderbund in 1847, he became president of the provisional cantonal government and supported with Kasimir Pfyffer (von Altishofen) the exit from the Sonderbund. His opponent in the conservative camp was Philipp Anton von Segesser . When the federal troops approached in 1847 and defeat became apparent, the cantonal government fled and panic broke out among the population. Josef Schumacher took over sole management, restored law and order, and contacted General Dufour. Thanks to their friendly relations, Lucerne was spared major misfortunes. After the enactment of the new state constitution of 1848, which bears his presidential signature, he rejected the election to the government council. At the federal level, Schumacher-Uttenberg was from December 7, 1849 to December 8, 1853 Council of States of the Canton of Lucerne.

In 1832 Schumacher-Uttenberg became the central president of the Swiss Rifle Club . He was a member and president of the poor and orphan council (1854-1860) and capital manager in the corporation municipality of Lucerne (1854-1860). After buying the Uttenberg estate in Lucerne, he added the addition Uttenberg to the Schumacher family name.

Schumacher-Uttenberg had been married to Sophie Müller, the daughter of his former battalion commander Colonel, Landammann and Envoy of the Diet, Josef Müller-Altdorf, since November 6, 1815. Nine children were born from this marriage. Albert, the only son born in 1820, died at the age of 17 as a student of the Jesuit college in Freiburg im Üechtland . Of his daughters, three were patrician and three were civilly married, which was the first time that non-patrician families joined Lucerne society. This was particularly displeasing to those patrician mothers whose sons did not get a chance, and so the daughters who stuck together were soon called "plums". Josef Schumacher took it with humor and planted a plum tree for each one. So it came about that his descendants are still nicknamed “plums” today.

literature

  • Family files, Lucerne State Archives (StALU, FamA): Schumacher-im Moos private archives. (PA 669), Schumacher-de Gottrau. (PA 1211 / 1-226).
  • State Archives Lucerne : Biographies of the Lucerne Grand Councils 1831–1995 (Ez 111, number 1663/1664/1665)
  • Lucerne State Archives : National and Council of States materials
  • H. Schumacher: Outline of a family story . Lucerne 1935/36.
  • R. Schumacher: Short biographies of some representatives of the Lucerne patrician Schumacher family . Central and University Library, Lucerne State Archives, Lucerne 2010.
  • R. Schumacher: The Lucerne patrician family Schumacher . Central and University Library, Lucerne State Archives, Lucerne 2010.
  • R. Schumacher: Gentlemen's portraits of the Lucerne patrician Schumacher family . Central and University Library, Lucerne State Archives, Lucerne 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Schumacher-Uttenberg, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schumacher, Josef Xaver Leodegar Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer, military and politician (liberal)
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1860
Place of death Lucerne