Ludwig Karrer

Ludwig Karrer (born November 9, 1830 in Teufenthal , † December 5, 1893 in Bern ; entitled to live in Teufenthal) was a Swiss politician ( DP ) and reformed pastor . From 1876 to 1885 he was a member of the National Council and from 1880 to 1888 a member of the government of the Canton of Aargau .

biography

The son of the host of the same name graduated from the canton school in Aarau . He then studied theology at the universities of Bonn , Tübingen and Erlangen . After successfully completing the state examination in 1854, he went to Algiers for two years , where he led the Reformed church there. From 1856 he was first vicar in Riken (today Murgenthal ) and field preacher . Two years later he was elected pastor of the parish of Oberentfelden . He paid particular attention to poor relief and the school system. He took over the religious education in the school district Aarau and was the Aargauer Education Council to the inspector of community schools in District Aarau appointed. In 1867 he received the honorary citizenship of Oberentfelden.

In 1874 Karrer gave up his pastor and initially worked for two years in his brother's music box factory. This change is due to his increased interest in politics, because in 1874 he was elected to the Grand Council as a candidate for the Democratic Party . In 1876 the Grand Council elected him to the cantonal government. As a government councilor, Karrer headed the Department of the Interior until 1879 and then the Department of Education until 1886. The voters rejected the poor law that he had drawn up. When they rejected tax increases several times, Karrer was forced to stop subsidizing school building. In 1884/85 he worked as a constitutional councilor to draft a new cantonal constitution. He came under fire from both liberals and conservatives, so that he resigned as a councilor in 1885 and as a grand councilor the following year.

Also for the Democrats, Karrer successfully ran for a seat on the National Council in 1880 . He was a member of this until 1888, when the Federal Council appointed him commissioner of the Federal Office for Emigration. His main task was the implementation of the emigration law passed four years earlier, whereby the experience in Algiers benefited him above all. It was his concern to regulate the emigration officially, to protect the emigrants from unpleasant surprises and to support them in settling in their new homeland.

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. 420-422 .

Web links

• Sarah Brian Scherer: Karrer, Ludwig. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .