Rinaldo Simen

Rinaldo Simen (born March 8, 1849 in Bellinzona ; † September 20, 1910 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss journalist , politician , free thinker , Ticino State Councilor and Council of States of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).

Life

Rinaldo Simen was born as the son of Rocco Simen from Andermatt , a businessman and rifle captain. After attending high school and an apprenticeship as a telegraph operator, he found a job in the telegraph office, which he gave up in order to devote himself to journalism and politics. He founded Il Carabiniere ticinese (1873–1874), the successor organization ll Tempo (1874–1877) and finally the newspaper Il Dovere (1878), which became the mouthpiece of the liberals of the liberal Riscossa uprising .

With Romeo Manzoni , he defended the inevitability of the radical revolution of September 11, 1890 ( Ticino putsch ) against the conservative cantonal government and became the most representative figure of settembrismo . After the overthrow of the conservative government of Gioachimo Respini , he was convinced that to solve the cantonal problems it was necessary to set aside one's own ideals, and he pushed through a pragmatic and negotiation-oriented line in the liberal majority government.

From 1893 to 1905 he was a Councilor of State for the Department of Education and Agriculture. In 1904 he submitted his resignation after pressure from the radicals had succeeded in persuading the Liberal Party to a programmatic agreement with the Socialist Party , which opposed the policy of moderate reformism. From 1893 to 1910 he sat in the Council of States , 1905-1910 in the Ticino Grand Council .

literature

• Andrea Ghiringhelli: Rinaldo Simen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 7, 2011 , accessed December 29, 2019 .
• Andrea Ghiringhelli: Il Ticino della transizione 1889-1922. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 1988.
• Erich Gruner : Federal Assembly. No. 1, Francke, Bern 1966, p. 757.

Web links

• Rinaldo Simen ginnasta e consigliere di Stato (Italian) on museodellamemoria.ch/articoli-pubblicati-su-media

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marco Marcacci: Ticino putsch. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 10, 2012 , accessed April 18, 2020 .
2. ↑ Rinaldo Simen Council of States on parlament.ch/de/biographie
3. ↑ Celestino Trezzini : Rinaldo Simen. Digitized in: Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz Schultheiss - Sisgau, Volume 6, Attinger Verlag, Neuchâtel 1931, p. 371.