Robert Creator

Robert Schöpfer (born September 27, 1869 in Solothurn , † December 27, 1941 ibid) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ).

Life

Family grave at the Church of St. Niklaus, Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus ,

Schöpfer was already politically active when he was still at school and, after attending the Solothurn Cantonal School, studied law in Heidelberg , Zurich and Bern . During his studies in 1890 he became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity . In 1895 he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . From 1896 to 1904 he was Chief Justice at the Geneva Higher Court . From 1904 to 1907 he was SAC Central President of the SAC Weissenstein section. From 1905 to 1912 he worked as an advocate and notary .

From 1904 to 1912 and from 1933 to 1937 he was councilor and cantonal councilor in Solothurn, where he was president in 1911. From 1919 he was president of the Liberal Party in Solothurn and later of the Swiss FDP. From 1912 to 1933 he was a member of the government council . In 1915, 1919, 1929, 1933 and 1934 he was Landammann . From 1917 to 1939 Robert Schöpfer was a member of the Council of States , and in 1926/27 its president . From 1933 to 1939 he was a delegate for Switzerland to the League of Nations . He was a colonel in the artillery and was a member of numerous boards of directors of large industrial companies (including Bally AG , Von Roll ). From 1934 to 1940 he was President of the Board of Directors of Burgdorf-Thun-Bahn , from 1910 to 1939 he was a member of the Solothurn Chamber of Commerce .

Schöpfer was an honorary member of several student associations : the respective Helvetia in Bern, Solothurn and Zurich as well as the Arion Solothurn.

He found his final resting place in the Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus .

Publications

• The legal status of the bona fide acquisition of stolen and lost items according to the Swiss Code of Obligations. Dissertation University of Bern 1895.

literature

• Silvan Freddi: Creator, Robert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 311-312.
• Schöpfer, Robert on the website of the Federal Assembly