Philippe Camperio

Philippe Camperio (born September 28, 1810 in Lodi , Kingdom of Italy as Filippo Camperio , † March 31, 1882 in Milan ) was a Swiss politician and legal scholar who taught at the Geneva Academy . From 1851 to 1863 and from 1866 to 1869 he was a member of the National Council, and from 1850/51, 1863 to 1866 and 1869/70 to the Council of States . He was also City Councilor of Geneva and State Councilor of the Canton of Geneva.

biography

Camperio was the son of a doctor of law and mathematics. On his mother's side, he was the nephew of Filippo Ciani and Giacomo Ciani , who later made political careers in the canton of Ticino . From 1821 he attended the institute of Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg in Hofwil near Münchenbuchsee , from 1829 he studied law under Pellegrino Rossi at the Geneva Academy. He received his doctorate in 1833 and then ran twice in vain for the chair of criminal law and criminal investigation. In an essay , Camperio blamed reservations in Geneva academic circles because of his Italian nationality. On October 18, 1841, he held a public meeting at which he criticized the neutral stance of the Geneva government in the Aargau monastery dispute. Five weeks later, this led to a bloodless revolution in the canton of Geneva and the radical liberals to take power .

Shortly after he was naturalized, Camperio was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva in 1847 , of which he was a member for over two decades. In 1848 he was given the chair of criminal law and public law at the Geneva Academy, which he held until 1866. In addition, from 1852 he was a judge at the Court of Cassation. The Grand Council elected him to the Council of States for the years 1850/51 . Camperio then ran in the National Council elections in 1851 and was elected with the best result. He was initially a supporter of James Fazy , but turned away from him because of his despotic attitude and approached the moderate liberals. From 1853 to 1855 he was a member of the State Council of the Canton of Geneva for the first time and was in charge of the Justice and Police Department. In 1861 he founded the group La Ficelle, which was directed against Fazy .

Camperio was also a city ​​councilor from 1858 to 1865 , and in 1862 he was a member of the constitutional council . In the National Council elections in 1863 he missed re-election by 21 votes, whereupon the Grand Council reappointed him to the Council of States for the next three years. In 1866 he returned to the National Council. A year earlier he was elected for the second time to the Geneva State Council, in which he was again active as Justice and Police Director. He advocated unrestricted freedom to work on Sundays and public holidays, reformed the welfare system and took measures to put an end to manipulation in elections. In 1868 he brokered the great watchmaker's strike.

After Camperio had rejected the election to the Federal Council in 1866 , he stood against Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel from Geneva in 1868 and lost. In 1869 he also lost his seat in the National Council, after which he was again a member of the Council of States for a year. In 1870 Camperio resigned from his offices as Grand Councilor, Councilor of State and Judge of Cassation and returned to his Italian homeland.

Web links

• Jean de Senarclens: Camperio, Philippe. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .