Konrad Bossard

Konrad Bossard (born January 18, 1802 in Zug ; † July 29, 1859 there ) was a Swiss politician . From 1853 until his death he was a member of the National Council. In addition, he was Councilor of the Canton train and Mayor of train.

biography

The son of the ironmonger and politician Johann Franz Kaspar Bossard attended schools in Zug and Neuchâtel , after which he studied in Geneva . Together with his brother Martin, he took over his father's hardware store in Zug (from which the Bossard Holding developed in the second half of the 20th century ). As a representative of the moderate liberals, Bossard was elected to the Zug Cantonal Council in 1833 , of which he was a member until 1847. In 1837 he was one of the co-founders of the liberal Wednesday Society, but left it four years later under the influence of the Zurich ostrich trade and the turmoil in the canton of Valais . Gradually he turned into a Catholic-Conservative federalist.

From 1834 to 1838 Bossard served as an interrogator, from 1837 to 1840 for the first time as mayor of Zug. He presided over the cantonal administrative chamber from 1838 to 1844. From 1839 he was ambassador to the legislature in Zug and from 1845 a member of the cantonal government. He resolutely represented the interests of the Sonderbund and sat on its war council during the Sonderbund War, but also sought a compromise. After the end of the war and the liberal overthrow in November 1847, Bossard lost all of his offices. But just a year later he moved back to the Cantonal Council, which he chaired in 1852/53 and 1856/57. From 1849 he was again mayor of Zug.

After the Conservatives were returned to power in 1850 arrived, sat Bossard back in the cantonal government (alternating with his intraparty opponent Franz Hegglin as Landammann and governors). He was considered a leader of the moderate Catholic Conservatives. In July 1853 he ran successfully in a by-election and entered the National Council, to which he was a member for the next six years.

Web links

• Fabrizio Panzera: Bossard, Konrad. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .