Louis Dupraz

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Louis Dupraz

Louis Dupraz (born March 4, 1896 in Romont , † November 24, 1982 in Freiburg im Üechtland ) was a Swiss lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party . He was a State Councilor for the Canton of Friborg.

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Dupraz, a Catholic by birth, comes from Freiburg and Rue. His parents were Emmanuel Dupraz, a lawyer, then a cantonal judge, and Maria Augusta geb. Biadi.

After attending the St. Michael College , Louis Dupraz studied law at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) and the University of Zurich . In 1920 he completed his doctorate in law in Zurich . Initially busy collecting the outstanding debts for the Schweizerische Volksbank (then the fourth bank in Switzerland), he opened his own law firm in 1923 . In 1923 he obtained his notary's license. From 1947 to 1952 he was president of the cantonal bar association.

From 1950 to 1966 he was a councilor for the city of Freiburg and from 1951 to 1971 a member of the Grand Council , which he headed in 1969. The recognized specialist in public finance was elected to the State Council in 1951. At the beginning of January 1952, he resigned because he had not received the finance department, but the police and military directorate. He commented on his decision as follows: "I gave up my private life and my job to implement a financial program that would be useless in another department." His seat was taken by the BGB candidate Georges Ducotterd . In February 1960 he was the candidate of the minority parties against Alphonse Roggo in the election of Jean Bourgknecht's successor to the Council of States . Due to his election to the State Council, he had to renounce his seat in the Grand Council, which went to Henri Bardy. When the MP Robert Dossenbach died and all his competitors renounced, he found his mandate again at the suggestion of his advocates of the free-thinking list of the city of Freiburg.

Louis Dupraz reacted in 1953 to the cancellation of a liberal initiative that had called for the revision of seven constitutional articles. In particular, it was about reducing the number of State Councilors from seven to five (only one of which could sit on the Federal Council), lowering the quorum for the Grand Council elections to 10% and the popular election of the Council of States. With a joint motion by the parliamentary groups of the FDP, SP and BGB, Dupraz launched a counterattack in 1954.

Louis Dupraz played an important role in local economic life; in particular, he sat on the boards of directors of the Schweizerische Volksbank, Sibra-Holding and Sarina.

As a learned personality, he wrote several historical treatises, including Le royaume des Francs et l'ascension politique des maires du palais au déclin du VIIe siècle (1948) and Les Institutions politiques jusqu'à la Constitution du 24 juin 1404 (1957). The University of Freiburg awarded him an honorary doctorate . He died on November 24, 1982 at the age of 86 in Freiburg.

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