Joseph Ignaz von Flüe

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Joseph Ignaz von Flüe (born December 25, 1762 in Sachseln , † 1813 in Strasbourg ) was a Swiss politician and officer.

Life

The Landhaus Obkirchen, built around 1600.

Joseph Ignaz von Flüe was the son of the Landammann and Pannerherrs Johann Nikodem von Flüe (1734–1823) and his wife Marie Franziska Achermann. His brother was Nikolaus von Flüe (1763-1839). The family lived on the Obkirchen estate in Sachseln.

Political career

Joseph Ignaz von Flüe was a partisan of the Unitarians and was considered one of the "few Helvetian-minded people" in Obwalden . In Helvetic he became a member of the Helvetian Grand Council in 1798 , the Senate in 1799, and after its dissolution on August 9, 1800, a member of the legislative council established at that time . At the Helvetic Consulta in Paris in 1802 he worked as a deputy of the Helvetic Republic. As a member of the close committee of the tens of this consulta, von Flüe helped to mediate the old Swiss constitutional forms and institutions, which were sanctified by time. He was one of those ten Swiss deputies who signed the Napoleonic Mediation Act . From Paris he went back to Obwalden, where he was received by his compatriots as a co-liberator. With the end of the Helvetic Republic in 1802 he had to break off his political career as a former representative of the Helvetic central state.

Military career

In 1778 von Flüe joined the French Swiss regiment of Salis-Samaden as a lieutenant at a young age . He rose to become Aidemajor and became a captain in 1791. The abdication of the Swiss regiments in 1792 led him back home.

In 1797 he was appointed major in Obwalden and in 1802 adjutant general of the Helvetian government. During the period of the Stecklik War in August 1802 he was given command of the federal troops in Bern.

After the end of the Helvetic Republic, von Flüe entered French military service for the second time in January 1807 and was employed as battalion chief in the second Swiss regiment. He spent three years in Catalonia , where he was awarded the Legion of Honor for his armed acts . Five years later he took part in Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812 , where he led a battalion of Colonel Castella de Berlens' 2nd regiment. He got far beyond Polotsk . Von Flüe then fell ill with a disease prevalent under the army and began the long journey home. After he had regained his strength, he returned to France again in 1813. But no sooner had he reached Strasbourg than a stroke (literally: stroke flow ) in December of the same year put an end to his life.

literature

  • Markus Lutz : Modern biographies or brief news about the life and work of interesting men of our time who have distinguished themselves as regents, generals, state officials, scholars and artists in Switzerland. Kappler, Lichtensteig 1826, p. 69 ff. Online version at Google Books : Markus Lutz describes a “Flüe, Ignaz Peter von” in his collection of biographies. Apparently Lutz made a mistake with the name and actually means Joseph Ignaz von Flüe, because Peter Ignaz von Flüe is a different person who was born in the same year in the same place, but to whom his descriptions do not apply.
  • Niklaus von Flüe: Obwalden at the time of the Helvetic Republic 1798–1803. Obwalden history sheets, booklet 7, Sarnen 1961.
  • Niklaus von Flüe: The mediation time in Obwalden 1803-1813. Obwalden history sheets, booklet 10, Sarnen 1968.
  • Carlo von Ah : Von Flüe in the war. Historical novel. Pro Libro, Lucerne 2017, ISBN 978-3-905927-57-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Niklaus von Flüe, 1961, p. 116 u. P. 138.
  2. ↑ Niklaus von Flüe, 1968, p. 27.
  3. ↑ Niklaus von Flüe, 1968, p. 125.
  4. ↑ Niklaus von Flüe, 1961, p. 179.
  5. ↑ Markus Lutz, 1826, p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Flüe, Joseph Ignaz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Sachseln
DATE OF DEATH 1813
Place of death Strasbourg