Samuel Schwarz (politician)

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Samuel Schwarz (born March 5, 1814 in Mülligen , † March 11, 1868 in Küttigen ; entitled to live in Mülligen) was a Swiss politician and officer . From 1848 to 1868 he was a member of the canton of Aargau , from 1852 to 1857 he represented Aargau in the Council of States , and from 1866 until his death in the National Council .

biography

Schwarz graduated from the district school in Lenzburg and the canton school in Aarau . He then studied law at the Universities of Zurich and Heidelberg and at the Academy in Lausanne . In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Helvetia. In 1839 he was admitted to the bar, after which he ran his own law firm in Brugg . In 1842 he was elected to the Grand Council , to which he belonged for ten years.

After Friedrich Frey-Herosé was elected to the Federal Council in 1848 , Schwarz succeeded him in the cantonal government. Due to his military career - he was a major at the time - he took over the military department ( at that time the army was still the responsibility of the cantons). From 1849 to 1851 he worked as a constitutional councilor in the drafting of a new cantonal constitution. In 1855 Schwarz was promoted to federal colonel , as such he commanded various branches of the army in several cantons. In addition, he was infantry inspector and from 1866 commander of the central military school in Thun .

In 1852 the Great Council delegated Schwarz to the Council of States. In 1855/56 he was President of the Council of States . As chairman of the permanent military commission, he exercised great influence. A particular concern for him was the abolition of the parade drill in order to gain more time for field service training. Schwarz promoted the establishment of the Swiss Federal Polytechnic (today's ETH Zurich ) and endeavored to incorporate a military science chair. In 1857 he decided not to be re-elected as a member of the Council of States due to increased demands as a troop leader; he was succeeded by the later Federal Councilor Emil Welti .

Schwarz took over the building department in the cantonal government, which at that time focused on the construction of the railway. In 1865, together with Hermann Siegfried , he took the position in a brochure that from a military point of view the Gotthard Railway should be preferred as a cross-Alpine railway line. In the parliamentary elections in October 1866, Schwarz was elected to the National Council and took over the presidency of the military commission.

A year and a half after he ran unsuccessfully for a member of the Federal Council , Schwarz succumbed to pneumonia.

literature

  • Biographical Lexicon of the Canton of Aargau 1803–1957 . In: Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau (Ed.): Argovia . tape 68/69 . Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau 1958, p. 765-767 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 115 , 103
  2. ↑ Urs Altermatt , Heinrich Staehelin: Emil Welti . In: Urs Altermatt (Ed.): Das Bundesratslexikon . NZZ Libro , Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-03810-218-2 , p. 119 .
personal data
SURNAME Black, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Garbage
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1868
Place of death Küttigen