Salomon Landolt

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Salomon Landolt; Portrait by JR Füssli.

Salomon Landolt (born December 10, 1741 in Zurich , † November 26, 1818 in Andelfingen ) was a Swiss politician.

Life

Salomon Landolt in his studio

Landolt's upbringing lay primarily with his mother's father, General Salomon Hirzel, who resided at Wülflingen Castle (now part of the city of Winterthur ). The first attempts at painting also took place here. From 1765 Landolt attended the military school in Metz , but shortly afterwards he began to study architecture in Paris . In 1768 he returned to Zurich and became a judge at the city court. An initiative to reorganize the Zurich militia came from him, as did the establishment of a sniper corps, which after a few years already comprised 500 men and had made a name for itself for discipline and the art of war .

Landolt came to Berlin for a short stay in 1776 . The Prussian King Friedrich the Great immediately noticed Landolt, who was attending a parade on horseback. An invitation to an audience followed: “Au Capitaine Suisse de Landolt du Canton de Zuric à Berlin
: Mr. de Landolt. Votre demande d'hier ne rencontre pas la moindre difficulté. Je vous permets d'assister à la revue de Mes troupes, partout ou vous voudrez, et sur ce Je prie Dieu, qu'il vous ait, Mr. de Landolt, en sa sainte et digne garde. : Potsdam ce 12 de May 1776 - Fréderic «

An extended time in Berlin gave Landolt, who always kept the letter, further insight into the Prussian officer circles and martial arts. Landolt turned down an offer from the king to take on a leading position in the Prussian army. After his return in November 1776 he was elected Governor of Greifensee . The Vogtei belonged to one of the three so-called outer Vogtei of Zurich . While the inner bailiwicks, which were usually closer to the city, were co-administered by the town's small council, an administrator was appointed for the outer bailiwicks. Among the outer bailiwicks, which also include Kyburg and Grüningen , Greifensee was the smallest and less conducive to further advancement in the cursus honorum .

After the office expired, Landolt soon received orders for a contingent of troops from Zurich to protect Geneva. In 1795 he was elected bailiff of Eglisau , where he resided in Eglisau Castle. He held this office until the old regime collapsed in 1798 . In Eglisau, the Salomon-Landolt-Weg, a small neighborhood path, is a reminder of his time in office. The Landvogteien-System has now been abolished, but Landolt was elected President by the Eglisauers. In November 1798 he returned to the estate in the Enge, located on the Sihl River, which he had acquired after the Greifensee period .

In 1803 he became a member of the Grand Council and President of the Wiedikon Guild Court due to the new constitution and in January 1805 he was appointed Colonel of the Sniper Corps in order to (again) reorganize the Zurich troops. In 1808, after the death of his housekeeper Marianne Klaissner, Landolt sold his estate in the Enge and moved to his brother-in-law in Teufen Castle . In 1818 Landolt finally went to Andelfingen , where he died on November 26, 1818.

Gottfried Keller set a monument to the Governor of Greifensee in the Zurich novella of the same name, The Governor of Greifensee .

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