Paul Maillefer

Paul Maillefer (born October 14, 1862 in Ballaigues , † January 9, 1929 in Lausanne , entitled to live in Ballaigues and Lignerolle ) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ).

biography

Maillefer was teacher training college in Peseux before joining at the University of Lausanne , the humanities studied. He received his doctorate in 1892 with the groundbreaking work Le pays de Vaud de 1789 à 1791 . Maillefer worked as a primary school teacher and was a teacher at the humanistic grammar school in Lausanne from 1886 to 1892 before working as a seminar teacher from 1899 to 1909. For two years (1892–1894) he was a private lecturer , and from 1894 to 1911 he worked as an associate professor for Swiss history at the University of Lausanne. In 1893 he founded the Revue historique vaudoise and in 1902 the Société vaudoise d'histoire et d'archéologie . For the 100th anniversary of the canton of Vaud , he published the work Histoire du Canton de Vaud dès les origines . He also wrote several school books.

During the years 1893-1894 and from 1899-1909 he was a councilor and in 1904 mayor . In between he was from 1894 to 1899 and from 1910 city councilor and from 1911 to 1921 city president of Lausanne. He had two seats in the Grand Council of the Canton of Vaud, namely from 1897 to 1899, and from 1912 to 1929. In 1919 he was President of the Grand Council. The Vaudois population elected him for the first time in the parliamentary elections in 1911 as a National Council , of which he was a member until 1929. In 1919 he ran unsuccessfully as a Federal Councilor .

In 1926/27, Maillefer was President of the National Council . In 1919 Maillefer stood as the official candidate of the FDP for election as the successor to the Federal Council, Camille Decoppet . Because of his anti-socialist and federalist efforts and especially with regard to his violent anti-German statements on the First World War , the parliamentarians elected Ernest Chuard before him.

Maillefer was also a member of the Masonic Lodge La Liberté . He also belonged to the Zofingia .

Web links

Patrick de Leonardis: Maillefer, Paul. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

^ Jean-Pierre Chuard, Oliver Meuwly: Ernest Chuard . In: Urs Altermatt (Ed.): Das Bundesratslexikon . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 , p. 308 .

personal data
SURNAME	Maillefer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 14, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ballaigues
DATE OF DEATH	January 9, 1929
Place of death	Lausanne

[1] Jean-Pierre Chuard, Oliver Meuwly: Ernest Chuard . In: Urs Altermatt (Ed.): Das Bundesratslexikon . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 , p. 308 .