Pierre Delley

Pierre Delley (born November 3, 1797 , † May 29, 1870 in Friborg ) was a Swiss politician and State Councilor of the canton of Friborg . His parents were Jean-Joseph Delley, citizen of Delley, and Madeleine nee. Dubey.

Life

Delley went through a diplomatic career and was first secretary of the Swiss Embassy in Paris, from January to May 1848 temporary charge d'affaires and from June 1848 to December 1952 Legation in Paris. So he experienced the transition from the monarchy to the Second Republic and from this to the Second Empire up close .

After returning to Freiburg, he ran for the position of state treasurer. The Great Council elected him on June 12, 1854, but he only remained in office for 24 hours because he was called to higher positions. On June 13, 1854, after seven ballots, he was elected to the Council of State with 39 of 68 votes as the successor to Jean Folly . From June 1854 to November 1855 he was the finance director. Due to the high debt burden caused by the Sonderbund War , he faced a difficult situation. Delley prepared the revised law of November 26, 1855 on the Freiburger Kantonalbank.

In the general election of the State Council on November 27, 1855 Delley fell through. The Grand Council preferred the former State Councilor Georges Clément to him. Since the latter refused, the canton parliament elected the liberal-conservative François-Xavier Bondallaz on November 28, 1855 to bundle the political forces to defend the canton's railroad interests.

Delley was again secretary of the Swiss embassy in Paris in 1857. He died in 1870 at the age of 73.

literature

• Georges Andrey , John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand et Nicolas Gex: The Freiburg Council of State: 1848–2011. History, organization, members . Editions La Sarine, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-2-88355-153-4 .