Paul Carl Eduard Ziegler

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Paul Carl Eduard Ziegler (born December 11, 1800 in Sterzing , † August 21, 1882 in Zurich ) was a Swiss politician and military.

biography

Ziegler came from an old council and guild family of the city of Zurich . He was born in Sterzing during the coalition wars, while his father, Jakob Christoph Ziegler, fought against the French in the Bachmann regiment in the Engadin. In 1815 he joined the formation of his father's regiment in Dutch services. In this he rose to battalion adjutant until 1821. In 1829 he left the Dutch army with the rank of captain and returned to Switzerland. In Zurich he was appointed lieutenant colonel and battalion commander.

In 1831 Ziegler became a member of the city council (until 1837) and in the following year of the Grand Council of the Canton of Zurich (until 1868). In 1832 he resigned from his military functions to protest against the political developments in Zurich. Nevertheless he was generally known as "Colonel Ziegler". Politically, Ziegler was assigned to the conservatives.

In 1837 Ziegler became mayor of Zurich (1837–1840). During the Züriputsch in 1839, Ziegler initially maintained a wait-and-see attitude and maintained order in Zurich. On the instructions of the liberal government, he also deployed the urban military against the advancing rural population, but did not use it and thus contributed significantly to the overthrow of the liberal cantonal government. The conservative provisional government therefore appointed him commandant of the troops in the city of Zurich.

After the coup, Ziegler was elected to the government of the canton of Zurich in 1840 and remained a councilor of the conservatives of the canton of Zurich until 1866. As such, he was responsible for the police and military. After he had become a colonel of the federal troops in 1844, Ziegler commanded the 4th federal division in the Sonderbund War and decided the battle near Gisikon for the federal troops .

During the Baden Revolution he was chief of staff, and in 1856 and 1859 division commander in the border occupations. Ziegler represented the Canton of Zurich in the National Council from 1848 to 1855 and from 1860 to 1866 . In 1861, when he was elected to the Federal Council to succeed Jonas Furrer, he was clearly defeated by Jakob Dubs , a member of the Canton of Zurich .

family

On September 1, 1834, Ziegler married Johanna Louise Bodmer (1813–1895). His daughter Luise married the poet Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898) in 1875 . Ziegler's son, Alfred Ziegler Benker (1842-1890) lived on the canton Thurgau nearby Schloss Steinegg , that he let rebuild fundamentally by the architect Christian Friedrich Hahn 1886-1887.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marco Jorio : Jakob Dubs . In: Urs Altermatt (Ed.): Das Bundesratslexikon . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 , p. 100 .
predecessor Office successor
Johann Jakob Escher Mayor of Zurich
1837–1840 		Johann Ludwig Hess
personal data
SURNAME Ziegler, Paul Carl Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politicians and military
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Sterzing
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1882
Place of death Zurich