Karl Styger

Karl Styger (born November 16, 1822 in Rothenthurm , † March 5, 1897 in Schwyz ) was a Swiss politician . From 1852 to 1872 he was a member of the National Council and from 1854 to 1866 he was a member of the government council of the Canton of Schwyz .

biography

The son of the politician Josef Karl Styger attended high schools in Schwyz and Einsiedeln , and spent a short time in Sion and Freiburg . He then studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich . Styger was a wealthy landowner and co-operator of a savings bank. In 1841 he and his father were one of the founders of the Swiss Student Union . In 1858 he participated in the establishment of a spinning mill in Ibach .

Styger was elected to the Cantonal Council in 1848, to which he belonged continuously until 1896 and which he chaired three times. The Grand Council in turn elected him to the government council in 1854 . Until 1866 he was responsible in the government for the departments of commerce, agriculture, justice and construction, from 1854 to 1856 and 1862 to 1864 he was Schwyz Landammann . Styger ran successfully in the National Council elections in 1851 , and was re-elected six times in a row. As a liberal conservative, he campaigned for the construction of the Gotthard Railway and for a moderate centralization of Switzerland, but rejected the draft constitution of 1872 and no longer stood as a candidate.

From 1876 until his death, Styger headed the Schwyz canton archive . He was a co-founder of the Historical Association of Canton Schwyz and wrote several historical works on local history. He was also one of the founders of the Schwyz Singers' Association and the Japanese Society .

Web links

• Franz Auf der Maur: Styger, Karl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .