Samuel Brawand
Samuel Brawand (born May 18, 1898 in Grindelwald ; † July 11, 2001 there ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ) and mountaineer .
Brawand, who came from a humble background, lost his father, a mountain guide who was killed by lightning on the summit of the Wetterhorn , at the age of four . After Brawand had completed the teachers' seminar in Hofwil , he worked as a primary school teacher, small farmer and cattle breeder and very intensively as a mountain guide, especially for mountaineers from Japan . As a mountaineer he made a name for himself with the first ascent of the Mittellegigrates on September 10, 1921. On this tour he acted as a mountain guide for Maki Yūkō .
Brawand held his first political function as a councilor in Grindelwald. From 1933 to 1935 he was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern and from 1935 to 1947 of the National Council . During the Second World War, Brawand presided over the pardons commission of the National Council. From 1947 to 1962, Brawand was a member of the government of the Canton of Bern and was in charge of the construction and railway management. From 1962 to 1968 he was director of the BLS . From 1955 to 1967 he was again a member of the National Council. As President of the Federal Road Construction Commission, Brawand set important impulses for national road construction in Switzerland. Brawand was on the board of directors of several railway companies, was a member of the International Simplon Commission and President of the Oberhasli power plants.
On December 9, 1961, Brawand became an honorary citizen of his home town of Grindelwald. In 1962 the University of Bern honored him with an honorary doctorate . Brawand also gained fame as a dialect writer and as the author of studies on the Grindelwald dialect.
literature
- Christine Kopp: Samuel Brawand - Insight into three centuries. In: Schweizer Alpen-Club (Ed.): Die Alpen Heft 9/2001.
Web links
- Peter Stettler: Brawand, Samuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Publications by and about Samuel Brawand in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Samuel Brawand in the catalog of the German National Library
- Media release from the Canton of Bern
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brawand, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician (SP) and mountaineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grindelwald |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 2001 |
| Place of death | Grindelwald |