Samuel Bachofen

Family grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Samuel Bachofen (born August 26, 1806 in Basel ; † January 20, 1889 there ) was a Swiss politician and colonel .

Life

Samuel Bachofen was born as the son of the Basel police lieutenant Johann Heinrich Bachofen and Sophia Klausenburg. After finishing school in Basel, he first worked as a butcher. In 1834 he married Katharina Fininger. As a member of the liberal Patriotic Association, he fought against the conservative regime. In 1846 he was a member of the Constitutional Council and from 1847 to 1887 of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt . On May 12, 1884, he was the Age President of the Grand Council. From 1867 to 1875 he was a member of the military college of the Small Council of Basel-Stadt.

In 1848 Bachofen joined the federal general staff, was a war judge from 1855 to 1867 and, as a colonel, commanded various brigades from 1860. At times he was the chief instructor of the Canton of Neuchâtel . In the German-Danish War of 1864 and the German War of 1866 he was the official Swiss war observer. During the Franco-German War of 1870/71 he commanded an infantry brigade as part of the border occupation. Bachofen, an admirer of the Russian diplomat and general Alexander Arkadjewitsch Suvorov , was considered a warrior . He belonged to the Basel butchers' guild in 1248, of which he was master in 1848 and 1866.

The Bachofen family and corps students in Switzerland

Samuel Bachofen had four sons, three of whom emerged as the founders of two Weinheimer Corps , Rhenania Zurich and Helvetia Zurich , which is to be seen as a unique fact in the history of corps students.

Samuel L. Bachofen

Samuel L. Bachofen (* 1835 in Basel; † January 25, 1858 ibid) began studying engineering with the opening of the Polytechnic in Zurich . Together with Manfred Semper and eight other students, he founded the Corps Rhenania on November 11, 1855. He died at the age of 23 as a student at the Polytechnic.

Arnold Bachofen

Arnold Bachofen (born March 18, 1840 in Basel; † December 18, 1894 there) studied from 1859 to 1862 at the building school of the Zurich Polytechnic. On October 23, 1859 it was received at Rhenania. On November 29, 1861 he founded the Corps Helvetia with his brother Wilhelm , Fritz Lotz , Hieronimus Seeli and two other Rhenans. After completing his studies, he worked as a builder and architect in Basel until his death . From 1883 he was a lieutenant colonel in the Swiss Army . He was the rifle master of the Basel Fire Rifle Society .

Wilhelm Bachofen

Wilhelm Bachofen (born August 21, 1841 in Basel; † April 11, 1922 there) also studied like his brothers Samuel and Arnold at the Polytechnic in Zurich, became active at Rhenania and, like his brother Arnold, was one of the six founders of Corps Helvetia.

Web links

• Christoph Zürcher: Bachofen, Samuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Glass paintings by the brothers Arnold and Wilhelm Bachofen on www.feuerschuetzen.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ May 12, 1884 - Basler Chronik from October 1, 1883 to September 30, 1885, Basler Jahrbuch 1886  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ January 20, 1889 - Fritz Baur, Basler Chronik from August 1, 1888 to October 31, 1889, Basler Jahrbuch 1890  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Zunft zu Metzgern Basel 1248, Meister since 1328  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Descendants of Johann Heinrich Bachofen and Susanna Rieder (PDF; 20 kB)
5. ^ 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855-2005. Braunschweig 2005, pp. 21, 295.
6. ^ 150 years of the Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855-2005. Braunschweig 2005, p. 301.
7. ↑ Samuel Mühlberg: The Corps Helvetia Zurich (so-called Schwarz-Helvetia), co-founder of the WSC . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 50 (2005), p. 486.
8. ↑ Chronique Suisse, Promotions d'officiers, January 23, 1883. (PDF; 9.1 MB)