Rudolf Sutermeister

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Respectful introduction and invitation to my dear fellow human beings , pamphlet

Rudolf Sutermeister (* May 7, 1802 in Wynigen ; † May 9, 1868 in Zofingen ; resident in Zofingen) was a Swiss practicing doctor for the poor or social medicine , entrepreneur or manufacturer, early socialist and "socio-political writer". Together with Gustav Siegfried , even before Johann Jakob Treichler and Karl Bürkli , he is the first autochthonous German-Swiss socialist. Unlike Siegfried, however, he was considered a utopian .

Life

Rudolf Sutermeister was a pastor's son and came from an "old Zofingen councilor family". He received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Basel and / or trained as a doctor in Bern and from 1824 ran a practice in Zofingen. He was a doctor for the poor and himself lived “in financial distress”. Among other things, Sutermeister is “economically and mentally to be regarded as proletarian ”.

Encouraged by Charles Fourier and friends with Wilhelm Weitling , Sutermeister saw "in the 1840s all salvation for his fatherland in a communist transformation of society"; he was also friends with Gustav Siegfried . In 1837 he turned "for the first time with a social reform manifesto to the public". He forged “plans for socialist experiments with a Saint-Simonist character”. With August Becker and Johannes Glur he formed “a 'liberal-communist' circle”.

His subsequent years were characterized by litigation, among other things, and he fell into oblivion.

Fonts

Sutermeister wrote a “series of writings with communist- chiliastic content that were distributed by the Union of the Just in Switzerland”.

  • Vigil for the dawn of the kingdom of God on earth. Or: Salvation for the poor, salvation for the weak, happiness for the rich, people's highest goal. Zofingen 1837.
  • Respectful introduction and request to the tit. Great and Small Council of the laudable Canton of Aargau. November 13, 1840.
  • Call for the formation of a general association, for mutual, best possible relief, improvement and happiness. Langenthal 1843.
  • The need and rescue. One word at a time. First of all to the dear Swiss people. Langenthal 1845.
  • No more poor poverty! Or ways and means of safely preventing and remedying the ever increasing impoverishment and the associated hardship and danger for everyone. 2nd Edition. Langenthal 1845.
  • The terrible destruction of our existing so-called right or wrong by true Christianity. Zofingen 1846. 20 pages.
  • Serious remarks, hints and warnings for all Grütlians and Confederates in total / A free word spoken in the Grütliverein in Zofingen, December 26th, 1849 by Rud. Suturer, doctor ( digitized ).
  • Recommended to all Aargau residents to please. September 1851. 11 pages ( digitized ).
  • Respectful introduction and invitation to my dear fellow human beings. 5 pages ( digitized ).

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author unknown: Rudolf Sutermeister. In: ( Ernst Ludwig Rochholz ; Karl Schröter (sources, authors or authors of some parts?) :) Argovia . Volume 88. Aarau: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, 1976. P. 341 f.
  2. ↑ a b Entry in: Rudolf Vierhaus (editor): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE). 2nd revised and expanded edition. Volume 9: Schlumberger – Thiersch. Munich: KG Saur , 2008.
  3. ^ Sauerländer: The sincere and experienced Swiss messenger. Sauerländer, 1827, p. 384 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ Switzerland: Federal Gazette. Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, 1849, p. 429 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. ^ Entry by Rudolf Sutermeister in the German Biographical Index . Modifications made by Victor Herrero Mediavilla . Volume 7: Sch – Tat. Munich: KG Saur , 2004. p. 5795.
  6. ^ Franz Wirth: Johann Jakob Treichler and the social movement in the canton of Zurich (1845/1846). Basel Contributions to History, Volume 144. Basel, 1981. S. 117. ISBN 978-3-7190-0798-0
  7. ↑ Erich Gruner : The workers in Switzerland in the 19th century. Helvetia politica, Volume 3. Francke, 1968. p. 427.
  8. ^ A b c d e Franz Wirth: Johann Jakob Treichler and the social movement in the canton of Zurich (1845/1846). Basel Contributions to History, Volume 144. Basel, 1981. S. 158.
  9. ↑ Erich Gruner: The workers in Switzerland in the 19th century. Helvetia politica, Volume 3. Francke, 1968. p. 429.
  10. ↑ Argovia. Volume 88. Aarau: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, 1976. P. 354.
  11. ^ Rudolf Rauchstein , Andreas Heusler : A political correspondence from the years 1839-1841. HR Sauerländer , 1951. p. 123.
  12. ↑ The "Patriotic Pilgrim" and the liberal Langenthal press. In: langenthal.ch. Retrieved January 10, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Eduard Vischer : Sutermeister, Rudolf. In: Otto Mittler and Georg Boner (editors): Biographisches Lexikon des Aargau, 1803–1957. Aarau: Verlag HR Sauerländer & Co. , 1958. pp. 776-778.
  14. ↑ Studies on Philosophy and Literature of the Nineteenth Century. Volume 26. 1975. pp. 182, 361 and / or 387.
personal data
SURNAME Master sitter, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor for the poor, early socialist and socio-political writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Wynigen
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1868
Place of death Zofingen