Joseph Maria Brentano

Joseph Maria Brentano (born November 8, 1778 in Laufenburg ; † January 2, 1851 there ; entitled to live in Laufenburg) was a Swiss politician and officer . In 1815 he was briefly Councilor of the Canton of Aargau .

biography

The son of the businessman Dominik Brentano began an apprenticeship in a trading house in Chalon-sur-Saône in 1791 , but had to return two years later because of the turmoil of the revolution and joined his father's business. From 1796 he served as an officer in the Austrian army. After the time to Further Austria belonging Fricktal in 1797 by the French had been conquered, a French military court sentenced him to death in absentia because he had not left the service in the army of the enemy; however, the sentence was never carried out. Nevertheless, he suffered a considerable loss of property due to the French occupation; the Laufenburg district office estimates in 1815 between 10,000 and 12,000 guilders .

After the Peace of Lunéville , Brentano returned to civilian life in 1801 and moved to the canton of Aargau, where the government appointed him captain and member of the war council three years later based on his experience . In 1805 he was made lieutenant colonel and in 1814 commander of the border occupation troops along the Rhine . In 1815 he was High Commissioner of the Federal General Niklaus Franz von Bachmann , in 1818 he was promoted to colonel .

Brentano was also active on a political level. In 1808 he was elected to the Grand Council , to which he belonged until 1832 and again from 1837 to 1846. In 1815 he was a member of the cantonal government for a few months. Brentano founded the Society for Patriotic Culture and in 1827 brought to an end the compensation negotiations that had become necessary after the separation from Laufenburg (Baden) . In 1830 he represented the canton of Aargau at the federal assembly , after which he worked as a district administrator in Laufenburg from 1831 to 1842.

literature

• Biographical Lexicon of the Canton of Aargau 1803–1957 . In: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau (Ed.): Argovia . tape 68/69 . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1958, p. 101-102 .

Web links

• Andreas Steigmeier : Brentano, Joseph Maria. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .