Otto Wyss

Wyss' commitment to cooperative housing construction (1945)

Otto (von) Wyss (born May 16, 1889 in Zurich ; † November 8, 1960 ) was a Swiss lawyer, communist and politician .

Life

Otto Wyss was the son of the Zurich chief judge Heinrich Wyss , received his doctorate after studying law at the University of Zurich , and in 1918 became extraordinary public prosecutor for war- related criminal cases in Zurich. He then worked as a lawyer in Switzerland, from 1930 lecturer in the Soviet Union under Evgeni Paschukanis and from 1932 also at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West (KUNMS) in Moscow .

Wyss returned to Switzerland in 1937 after Paschukani was arrested and in 1938 campaigned for an amnesty for Swiss fighters in Spain with a nationwide petition with 80,000 signatures . Thereupon the National Council transferred a postulate following advancements by Marino Bodenmann , Léon Nicole (both KPS ) and Johannes Huber ( SP ) , but rejected the amnesty according to the report of the Federal Council on February 2, 1939 with 93 votes to 71 and only granted it in 2009 .

Wyss translated Russian literature into German, was a founding member of the PdA in 1944 and served as its representative on the Basel Grand Council for eight years .

Otto Wyss was married twice and was great-great-grandson of Salomon von Wyss , the founder of Escher Wyss AG . The daughter Julia (von) Wyss (1916–1990) came from her first marriage to Margrith Vögtlin, married to the important set designer André Perrottet von Laban (1916–1956).

Works

• The right to be assigned work in the employment contract. Dissertation University of Zurich, 1917, Sauerländer, Aarau 1918.
• Criminal Law and Psychiatry. In: Red Review . Socialist monthly magazine. Issue 11, July 1928, Volume VII, pp. 329–346.
• The siblings. Universum Verlag, Zurich 1954.

Web links

• Wyss, Otto in the Swiss Social Archives

Individual evidence

1. ^ Markus Bürgi: Wyss, Heinrich (von). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .