Peter Anton Ming

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Peter Anton Ming (Date of recording: between 1918 and 1921)

Peter Anton Ming (born March 30, 1851 in Sarnen , † April 15, 1924 in Bern ) was a Swiss politician, judge, doctor, publicist and dialect poet . Among other things, he was the Swiss National Councilor , Councilor and Mayor of the Canton of Obwalden as well as a judge at the cantonal and higher courts .

Life

Coat of arms of the Landammann Peter Anton Ming

Peter Anton Ming was born as the second son of the farmer Franz Josef Ming and his wife Marie Josefa Ming, b. Müller born. In 1876 he married Franziska Agnes Omlin, daughter of the Landammann Josef Ignaz Omlin . The couple had ten children, including the Obwalden native writer Rosalie Küchler-Ming . Since his mother died in 1851 and his father in 1855, he was raised by the wife of his godfather, witness Anna Marie Ming-Ettlin and, after her death in 1859, by her daughter Anna Marie Kiser-Ming. Peter Anton Ming attended high school in Sarnen and studied medicine in Würzburg , Munich , Freiburg i.Br. and Basel , where he passed the state examination at the age of 23. He completed his medical studies with a doctorate. From 1874 until his death he practiced as a country doctor in Sarnen.

Ming was considered a pioneer of the abstinence movement and participated as its delegate at congresses in Milan, London, The Hague, Washington and Lausanne. He wrote popular medical writings «against the devastating drinking misery» in his homeland, u. a .: The farmer and abstinence , thirst and spiritual drinks in the light of experience, health theory and people's welfare and schnapps and the people or who will be masters? A part of the social question of the canton of Obwalden. He is considered the most important doctor and fighter against alcoholism in Obwalden. In 1896 he set up the " Drinks Sanatorium Pension Vonderflüh " on his home in Wilen , a sanatorium for alcoholics of the Catholic denomination. The sanatorium existed until 1951, then became a school for nursing and has been run by the Future Age Foundation - Living and Care as a Hotel Kurhaus on Lake Sarnen since 2012 . In addition, Ming also wrote dialect poems. His text “Uf em Bänkli vor em Huisli” from 1906 was set to music by Rudolf Gasser in 1934 and arranged in 1967 by Franz Xaver Jans for a four-part mixed a cappella choir. An open letter to the Swiss citizen capable of voting, published in 1882 under the pseudonym Martin Frischherz : In matters of the Federal Secretary of Education and the school law behind him. " is attributed to him. Ming was the founder and long-time editor of the "Blätter des Obwaldner'schen Bauernverein", of which he was president. In the military he had a medical captain's degree .

He died of pneumonia on April 15, 1924 in Bern at the spring session of the federal councils. The arms of the Sarner sex "Ming", which he led as Landammann is: Azure, a, sechsstrahliger Star inflated by a mutually slanted to the left, golden beams.

politics

Ming was a local councilor from 1876 to 1910 and from 1884 to 1892 mayor of his home community Sarnen. From 1876 to 1924 he was a member of the Obwalden cantonal council and from 1881 to 1887 he was a citizen's council . From 1890 to 1924 he was a member of the Swiss National Council for the Catholic Conservatives . From 1910 to 1924 he was Obwalden government councilor, during which time he held the office of Landammann seven times.

Ming was a judge at the Obwalden cantonal court from 1875 to 1878 and a member of the higher court from 1878 to 1910, which he presided over from 1901 to 1910. He was also a medical councilor (1880–1924), an education councilor (1888–1924) and, from 1908 to 1924, president of the cantonal Matura Commission . In 1886 he was a co-founder and member of the board of directors of Obwaldner Kantonalbank , which started its business on November 2, 1986 on the ground floor of his house at Dorfplatz 4 in Sarnen. From 1901 he was the president of the bank.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See E. Omlin, genealogie-zentral.ch and Obwaldner Volksfreund of April 17, 1924. In the HLS article, the date of death is incorrectly stated as April 9 in Sarnen.
  2. ↑ He fought the misery of drinking. In: Obwaldner Zeitung, April 7, 2017
  3. ↑ Wolf Linder, Christian Bolliger, Yvan Riel: Directories of the literature, the sources and the abbreviations for the short descriptions of the votes 1848–2007 , Bern 2010, p. 20 (In: Wolf Linder, Christian Bolliger, Yvan Riel (ed.) : Handbook of the federal referendums 1848–2007. Bern, Haupt. Pp. 713–729.)
  4. ^ Anton Küchler: Chronik von Sarnen , Kerns 1895, p. 160
  5. ↑ Peter Anton Ming on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals )
  6. ↑ OKB - An overview of important data (PDF), on the Obwaldner Kantonalbank website, accessed on September 3, 2019
predecessor Office successor
Nikolaus Durrer National Council of the Canton of Obwalden
1890–1924 		Maria Odermatt
personal data
SURNAME Ming, Peter Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frischherz, Martin (assigned pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician, judge, doctor and dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarnen
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1924
Place of death Bern