Maurice-Eugène Filliez

Maurice-Eugène Filliez (born October 20, 1811 in Le Châble, municipality of Bagnes , † July 11, 1856 ibid) was a Swiss politician . In 1854/55 he was a member of the Council of States and from December 1855 until his death to the National Council .

biography

The son of a farmer and landowner graduated from law school in Sion . Filliez then worked as a notary from 1835 and as a lawyer from 1840 . He represented radical liberal views and was an active member of the Young Switzerland movement , which followed the example of Young Europe by Giuseppe Mazzini . In May 1840 he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Valais .

Four years later there were violent clashes between radicals and conservatives, which culminated on May 21, 1844 in the battle on Trento near Vernayaz . After the conservatives 'victory, Filliez, one of the radicals' military leaders, hid in a cave for six days until he managed to escape to the canton of Vaud . In absentia, he was sentenced to prison and twenty years' disfranchisement in a tribunal. He settled in Bex and leased a farm.

In 1847, Filliez and other exiles founded a "patriotic committee" in Aigle , which joined the federal troops during the Sonderbund War . The Valais was recaptured and a popular assembly in Sion elected Filliez on December 2, 1847 as a member of the provisional government. He resigned on January 11, 1848 and returned to the Grand Council from which he had been expelled three years earlier.

From 1848 to 1851 officiated Filliez as mayor of Bagnes, then as a council . He was also subordinate and from 1850 governor of the Entremont district . The Great Council elected him to the Council of States for the years 1854/55. After two unsuccessful candidates for the National Council in 1848 and 1851, he won a by-election in the constituency of Lower Valais in December 1855 . He died seven months later at the age of 44. The pastor of Bagnes wanted to refuse Filliez the funeral, but complied after influential people exerted pressure.

Web links

• Frédéric Giroud: Filliez, Maurice-Eugène. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Detailed biography (French)