Ruben Lanicca

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Ruben Lanicca (born July 28, 1881 in Sarn ; † December 4, 1965 in Thusis ; legal resident in Sarn) was a Swiss politician (DP) .

Life

Family and work

The Reformed baptized Ruben Lanicca, son of the Sarn farmer Nicolaus Beat Lanicca and his wife Anna Martha née Fontana, who also came from Sarn, completed the teachers' seminar in Chur after completing compulsory schooling . After Lanicca had held teaching positions in Wiesen and on Heinzenberg since 1900 , he had been running an agricultural business in his home town of Sarn since 1918.

Ruben Lanicca was his first marriage to the meadow woman Dorothea, daughter of the farmer Paul Palmi, and his second marriage to his cousin Margreth Lanicca. He died in December 1965 at the age of 85 in Thusis.

Political career

Ruben Lanicca, who joined the Democratic Party (DP), served as district president of the Thusis district from 1935 to 1947 , at the same time he represented his party in the Grisons Grand Council , which he chaired in 1945 as state president. In addition, Lanicca took a seat on the National Council for the canton during the same period .

Ruben Lanicca's elections in 1935 brought about a breakthrough for the Democrats at regional and cantonal level at the expense of liberalism . The declared representative of the interests of the mountain farmers campaigned in particular for cost-covering livestock prices.

See also

literature

  • [Lanicca Ruben (? -1965). Document collection]. former National Councilor of the Canton of Graubünden. Newspaper clippings, [Var.loc.],? -
  • Bündner Jahrbuch, Bischofberger, Chur, 1967, pp. 174–176
  • Peter Metz: History of the Canton of Graubünden / 3, Since 1914, Calven-Verlag, Chur 1993, ISBN 3-9052-6103-0 , p. 272.
  • Markus Feldmann , Roger Sidler: Diary: Introduction and index to the diary 1923–1958, Swiss Society for History, Bern 2001, ISBN 3-8551-3336-0 , p. 157.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of the presidents of the canton of Graubünden from 1803 on the website www.gr.ch; accessed on February 23, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Lanicca, Ruben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (DP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarn
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1965
Place of death Thusis