Ludwig von Fischer (politician, 1805)

Ludwig von Fischer (born November 21, 1805 in Bremgarten near Bern , † July 3, 1884 in Zollikofen ) was a Swiss politician . From 1831 to 1848 he was a member of the government of the Canton of Bern , after which he was a member of the National Council until 1850 .

biography

He came from the Bernese patrician family von Fischer , his father Carl was a landowner and an officer in the Dutch service. After studying law at the academy in Geneva , Fischer took over the management of the family's property around Reichenbach Castle in the municipality of Zollikofen. He also worked as a lawyer and procurator . He was considered one of the few patricians in Bern with close contact with the people.

As a representative of the conservatives, Fischer was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern in 1837 , of which he was a member until 1846. When negotiations on the controversial division of assets between the city and the canton broke out in 1841, he reached an agreement with Eduard Blösch . In 1846 Fischer was a member of the Constitutional Council . In October 1848 he ran in the first parliamentary elections in the Mittelland constituency , but was only elected in the sixth ballot in January 1849 after Ulrich Ochsenbein's seat had become vacant. Fischer resigned from this mandate a little over a year after the Grand Council elected him to the government. He was considered to be the mainstay of the new conservative cantonal government, and in 1855 he resigned because of the unsolved problems in the poor. From 1858 to 1862 he sat on the Grand Council one more time.

Web links

• Christoph Zürcher: Fischer, Ludwig von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .