Karl Ludwig Baldinger

Karl Ludwig Baldinger (born November 29, 1800 in Baden , † January 26, 1881 in Ennetbaden ) was a Catholic-Conservative Swiss politician and judge . In 1851 and 1852 he represented the canton of Aargau in the National Council . His younger brother Wilhelm Karl Baldinger was also a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of the judge Johann Ludwig Baldinger completed the high school in Lucerne and the academy in Lausanne after the schools in Baden . He studied law at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . After a long stay in Paris , in 1824 he married Elisabeth Dorer, the daughter of Franz Dorer , with whom he had seven children. In the same year he began to work as government secretary of the canton of Aargau, from 1828 he worked as a council clerk in Aargau. In 1831 he was elected to the Aargau High Court . His political career began in 1834 when he was elected to the Grand Council .

Baldinger belonged to the Catholic-Conservative opposition, but he was an opponent of increasing political radicalization and often tried to mediate with the liberals. In 1841 he voted against the abolition of the monasteries and then advocated mild treatment of those people who had been involved in the previous riots. He spoke out against the violent dissolution of the Sonderbund , but could not get his way through with his opinion. During these years he had a lively exchange of ideas with like-minded Reformed people such as Rudolf Rauchstein and Andreas Heusler .

From 1849 to 1851 he was a member of the Constitutional Council, which drafted a new cantonal constitution. In the parliamentary elections in 1851 he was elected to the National Council in the constituency of Aargau-Nord . But already in the following year he gave up this mandate, he also resigned as a Grand Councilor. He remained an Aargau chief judge until his death at the age of 80.

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. 37-38 .

Web links

• Andreas Steigmeier : Baldinger, Karl Ludwig. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .