Karl Dominik von Reding

Karl Dominik von Reding (born August 10, 1755 in Schwyz ; † March 8, 1815 there ; entitled to live in Schwyz and Oberehrendingen ) was a Swiss politician . After he Schwyzer governor and bailiff had been, he escaped during the confusion of the Helvetic Republic for political reasons in the canton of Aargau . He was of Swiss Senator and from 1803 to 1808 Aargauer Councilor . His son Karl von Reding was also a member of the Aargau cantonal government.

biography

The son of governor Karl Heinrich Reding served in the French army in his youth . From 1785 to 1789 he was Schwyz state bag master , then state governor until 1791 and finally landammann until 1793. In the years 1786 and 1789 to 1798 he represented Schwyz as an envoy to the federal diets . In January 1798 he traveled to Lausanne to act as a federal member of parliament to dissuade the residents of the Vaud from a revolution against their masters from Bern . His efforts were unsuccessful, because shortly afterwards the French invaded Switzerland and proclaimed the Helvetic Republic during the so-called French invasion .

Reding had hardly returned to Schwyz when uprisings broke out in April 1798 in the March . The Schwyz accused him of cooperating with the French, whereupon he had to flee to Chur . In the same year he settled in Baden and was elected to the Helvetian Senate, of which he was a member until 1800. As president of a provisional government commission, in September 1802 he opposed the dissolution of the canton of Baden and thus also the corresponding decision of the Helvetic directorate . He was one of the leaders of the Stecklik War and was briefly imprisoned in the fortress of Aarburg .

With the mediation act that came into force in March 1803 , Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the merger of the cantons of Baden and Aargau. A little later, Reding, who had received citizenship of Oberehrendingen , was elected to the Aargau Grand Council . This in turn elected him to the cantonal government. On behalf of Niklaus Rudolf von Wattenwyl , the Landammann of Switzerland , he conducted negotiations with the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1804 about the division of the property of the secularized Diocese of Constance .

Due to the separation of powers, which had not yet been realized at that time, Reding continued to belong to the Grand Council and presided over it in 1807. In the years 1803 to 1805 and 1807 he represented the canton of Aargau as an envoy to the federal diets . In 1808 he resigned from the government, a year later he also gave up his seat on the Grand Council. A little later he moved back to his homeland Schwyz.

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. 609-611 . ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Beatrice Küng-Aerni: Reding, Karl Dominik von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .