Leo Weber (politician)

Leo Weber (born June 24, 1920 in Muri ; † February 26, 1995 in Melchsee-Frutt ; resident in Leuggern ) was a Swiss politician ( CVP ). He was a member of the government of the canton of Aargau from 1965 to 1976 and a national councilor from 1975 to 1987.

biography

Leo Weber was the son of the farmer and land registry administrator Heinrich Leo Weber and Ida Weber (née Bürgisser). He received his high school education at the monastery school of Engelberg . He then studied law at the universities of Friborg , Lausanne and Bern . His graduation as Dr. iur. made Weber in 1946, two years later he was admitted to the bar . At the beginning of his professional career, he worked as a clerk at the Muri District Court from 1947 to 1949 , then as a public prosecutor for twelve years . In 1961 he started his own business as a notary and ran a law firm in Muri until 1965 and from 1976 onwards.

As a candidate of the Conservative Christian Social People's Party (today's CVP) Weber was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau in 1961. In 1965 he was elected to the cantonal government. He initially headed the Department of Justice and Police, and from 1969 the Department of Finance. In 1976 he resigned as a member of the government, after having been elected to the National Council the year before . He was a member of this until 1987. As a member of the Constitutional Council from 1973 to 1980 he was involved in drafting the new Aargau cantonal constitution.

Weber was for many years president of the church administration of the Roman Catholic parish of Muri. In this function he campaigned for the restoration of the Muri monastery church and the promotion of culture in the rooms of the former Muri monastery . In 1969 he was one of the co-founders of the St. Martin Cultural Foundation founded for this purpose (today Murikultur Foundation). In 1970 he signed an agreement with Archduke Rudolph Habsburg-Lothringen to use the Loreto Chapel as the Habsburg family crypt.

Web links

• Anton Wohler: Leo Weber. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of the Foundation Muri culture. (PDF; 122 kB) (No longer available online.) Murikultur Foundation, 2012, archived from the original on March 26, 2016 ; Retrieved November 18, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Loreto Chapel, Muri. In: Aargauer Kapellen. Roman Catholic Church in Aargau, 2012, accessed November 18, 2012 .