Markus Feldmann

Markus Feldmann (* 21st May 1897 in Thun , † 3. November 1958 in Bern ; heimatberechtigt in Glarus and in 1940 in Bern) was a Swiss politician of the Civil Code (later SVP ).

life and work

The lawyer and journalist Markus Feldmann, a member of the farmers, trade and citizens' party , was an opponent of National Socialism with an unusually high profile for the bourgeois politics of the time .

In 1935 he was elected to the National Council for the first time , which he belonged to until 1945 and again from 1947 to 1951.

Feldmann was elected to the government council (executive) of the canton of Bern in 1945 , where he first headed the municipal and sanitary directorate and later the education and church directorate. Against the backdrop of the Cold War , in 1950 the so-called Bern church dispute broke out into a heated argument between Feldmann and a group of pastors surrounding the theologian Karl Barth , of which Walter Lüthi was a prominent member .

Feldmann was elected to the Federal Council on December 13, 1951 and died in office. During his tenure, he headed the Justice and Police Department and was a member of the then newly founded League against Noise .

He was Vice President of the Federal Council in 1955 and Federal President in 1956 . During his presidential year, the Indonesian President Sukarno was received in Bern.

Feldmann is buried in Bern's Schosshaldenfriedhof .

literature

Peter Stettler: Markus Feldmann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Swiss Federal Archives (Ed.): Markus Feldmann (1897–1958). Federal Councilor, journalist, diary writer. Bern 2001, ISBN 3-908439-06-X ( digitized version of the publication ).

Markus Feldmann: Diary 1923–1958. Edited by Peter Moser with collabor. by Roger Sidler [et al.]. Swiss Society for History - Commission publisher Krebs, [Bern] / Basel 2001–2002. 6 vols. ISBN 3-85513-331-X (vol. 1), ISBN 3-85513-332-8 (vol. 2), ISBN 3-85513-333-6 (vol. 3), ISBN 3-85513- 334-4 (Vol. 4), ISBN 3-85513-335-2 (Vol. 5), ISBN 3-85513-336-0 (Vol. 6).

Markus Feldmann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Markus Feldmann on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals )
On the edition of Markus Feldmann's diary , accessed on November 10, 2011.
Literature by and about Markus Feldmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Markus Feldmann in the archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives
Estate at the Archives for Contemporary History (PDF)

Individual evidence

↑ Markus Feldmann on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals )

predecessor	Office	successor
Eduard von Steiger	Member of the Swiss Federal Council 1952 - 1958	Friedrich Traugott elections

personal data
SURNAME	Feldmann, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss politician (BGB)
DATE OF BIRTH	May 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tuna
DATE OF DEATH	3rd November 1958
Place of death	Bern

[1] Markus Feldmann on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals )