Jules Brun

Jules Brun (born June 12, 1832 in Lausanne as Jean-Samuel-Jules ; † August 21, 1898 there , entitled to live in Oulens-sous-Echallens ) was a Swiss politician .

biography

After completing his commercial apprenticeship at Banque Marcel, Brun made a career at this bank and became an independent banker in 1865 . He was the initiator of the Broyetal Railway in 1870.

First as a radical (1870 to 1882), then as a liberal (1886 to 1898) councilor , he was politically active in the city of Lausanne . From 1871 to 1872 he was a member of the Municipal Council of Lausanne and in 1882 refused the office of mayor . Brun also took part in the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud from 1871 to 1893 and was on the Constitutional Council of Vaud in 1884. After being elected to the Council of States in 1880, he moved to the National Council only one year later and stayed there for only one year. His last position was in the State Council of the Canton of Vaud from 1881 to 1885 , where he headed the Finance Department. Although Brun, as a radical, put the state finances, which he managed beyond his control, back in order and supported the Liberals' initiative of 1883 against accumulating mandates (the so-called incompatibility campaign), he was no longer re-elected because his own party colleagues no longer supported him.

Web links

• Jocelyn Rochat / AL: Brun, Jules. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .