Karl Friedrich Zimmermann

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Karl Friedrich Zimmermann (baptized March 3, 1765 in Brugg ; † August 26, 1823 there ; entitled to live in Brugg) was a Swiss politician . In 1800 and 1801 he was a member of the First Executive Council, the government of the Helvetic Republic . From 1806 to 1819 he was Councilor of the Canton of Aargau .

biography

The son of the Brugger mayor Johann Jakob Zimmermann, who had become wealthy through the salt trade , received his training in Colmar at the École militaire from Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel . After the French invasion began in January 1798, a revolutionary committee was formed in Brugg with Zimmermann's participation. In the weeks before the proclamation of the Helvetic Republic in 1798, he was a member of the provisional national assembly of the Canton of Aargau, which was formed from the Bernese subject areas. The division into districts goes back to his suggestion. In April 1798 Zimmermann was elected to the Grand Council, the lower chamber of the Helvetic Parliament, and temporarily presided over it. As a Unitarian, he advocated a tightly organized central state.

After the second coup on August 7, 1800, Zimmermann was one of nine members of the First Executive Council who took over government in the Helvetic Republic. He presided over the Executive Council twice, in November 1800 and in May 1801. On October 27, 1801, he was elected to the Helvetian Senate, but only one day later the government was overthrown again. From then on Zimmermann only devoted himself to cantonal politics. In 1802 he joined the Aargau Cantonal Assembly and the Aargau Constitutional Commission. He did not accept the election to the Helvetic Consulta , which was to negotiate the mediation act with Napoleon Bonaparte .

In March 1803 Zimmermann was elected to the Aargau Grand Council and was initially on the side of the opposition. In May 1806, the Grand Council elected him to the cantonal government, where he was responsible for the education department. From 1807 he was also a member of the Cantonal School Council and from 1809 the War Council. After the adoption of the Restoration Constitution , he held the office of mayor in 1815, 1817 and 1819, which corresponded to that of a district president. He also presided over the Grand Council ex officio during these years. At the end of 1819 he resigned from the government, and in June 1823 from the Grand Council.

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. 908-910 .

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