Karl Emanuel Fahrländer

Karl Emanuel Fahrländer (born July 2, 1803 in Aarau ; † August 23, 1857 there ; entitled to live in Oeschgen ) was a Swiss politician . From 1853 to 1854 he represented the canton of Aargau in the National Council .

biography

Karl Emanuel Fahrländer was the son of the doctor Sebastian Fahrländer , the former governor of the short-lived canton of Fricktal . His baptism was the first in the newly founded Catholic parish of Aarau in 1803. Fahrländer graduated from the Aarau canton school and grammar school in Basel , where his family temporarily lived. He then studied law at the Universities of Basel , Freiburg im Breisgau and Heidelberg . After he had obtained his doctorate in 1826 , another study visit followed in Paris . In 1828 he was admitted to the bar and opened a law firm in Aarau. In the military he rose toCaptain on the General Staff. In 1833 he married Maria Anna Brentano, the daughter of Joseph Maria Brentano . In 1835 he was the secretary of the commission that legally regulated the separation of the Basel cantons .

Fahrländer's political career began in 1841 with his election to the Grand Council , to which he belonged until 1843, again from 1845 to 1852 and finally from 1853 to 1856. As one of the leaders of the moderate Catholic-conservative opposition, he criticized what he saw as the unconstitutional repeal of the Aargau monasteries by the radical-liberal cantonal government, which had led to the Aargau monastery dispute in 1841 . Although he could not get used to the goals of the Sonderbund founded in 1847 , he spoke out against their dissolution by force of arms and, in particular, against the Aargau's participation in the Sonderbund war .

In January 1853 Fahrländer replaced Gregor Lützelschwab who had resigned in the National Council . In the National Council elections in 1854, however, he was not re-elected. He died three years later after a long illness. His son Karl Franz Sebastian Fahrländer was also a member of the National Council and a member of the Aargau government.

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. 182-184 .

Web links

• Andreas Steigmeier : Fahrländer, Karl Emanuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .