Joseph Anton Clemenz
Joseph Anton Clemenz (born January 29, 1810 in Visp ; † August 15, 1872 there ; authorized to live there ) was a Swiss politician , judge and hotelier . From 1848 to 1851 he was a member of the National Council, from 1856/57, 1861 to 1863 and 1865 to 1868 he represented the canton of Valais in the Council of States . He was one of the pioneers of tourism in Zermatt .
biography
The son of a landlord attended colleges (grammar schools) in Sion , Brig and Saint-Maurice . In 1832/33 he graduated from a law school in Sion and was then licensed as a public notary. In 1835 he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Valais , to which he belonged continuously until 1871. He served several times as mayor (head of the civic community ) of Visp, in the years 1841/42 as the first community president . In the military he last had the rank of major . From 1848 to 1851 Clemenz was district judge , from 1841, 1851 to 1857 and 1869 to 1872 appellate judge.
The Grand Council elected him to the State Council in 1843 , whereupon he headed the Finance Department until 1847. Clemenz ran for the first National Council elections in October 1848 and was elected in the constituency of Upper Valais . In the National Council he was initially a member of the Catholic-Conservative opposition. As a result of his rapprochement with the moderate liberals, he was not re-elected in 1851 and was defeated by Alexis Allet . As a result, he ran four more times in National Council elections, each time without success. The Grand Council elected him for the years 1856/57, 1861 to 1863 and 1865 to 1868 as one of the two Valais representatives in the Council of States . From 1857 to 1865 Clemenz was the first President of the Grand Council from Upper Valais. In 1871/72 he sat a second time in the Council of State and headed the Department of the Interior.
While his brother Franz ran the “Zum Weissen Rössli” inn in Visp, which he had inherited from his father, Joseph Anton Clemenz wanted to benefit from the emerging alpinism . In 1852 he opened the Hotel Mont Cervin in Zermatt (today's Mont Cervin Palace ). It initially had eight rooms and was later expanded to 14 rooms. Clemenz leased the hotel to his competitor Alexander Seiler in 1857 and finally sold it to him in 1867. Edward Whymper made the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, but four members of his rope team died on the descent. Clemenz had the bodies recovered and carried out the subsequent criminal investigation. However, the allegation that Whymper cut the rope could not be confirmed.
Political offices
- Grand Council (1840–1843, 1847–1871)
- State Council (1843–1847, 1871–1872)
- National Council (1848-1851)
- Council of States (1856–1857, 1861–1863, 1865–1868)
Web links
- Frédéric Giroud: Clemenz, Joseph Anton. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sights / Zuber House. (No longer available online.) Municipality of Visp, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 26, 2014 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A long history with a great future. (No longer available online.) Mont Cervin Palace, archived from the original on September 26, 2013 ; Retrieved November 26, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Emil Henry: Triumph and Tragedy: The Life of Edward Whymper . Matador, Leicester 2011, ISBN 978-1-84876-578-8 , chapter 14.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clemenz, Joseph Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician, judge and hotelier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Visp |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1872 |
| Place of death | Visp |