Samuel Wildi

Samuel Wildi (born June 6, 1825 in Veltheim , † January 23, 1905 in Brugg ) was a Swiss judge and politician . From 1868 to 1869 he represented the canton of Aargau in the National Council .

biography

The son of a farmer and justice of the peace graduated from primary school in his home town of Veltheim, the district school in Lenzburg . This was followed by a visit to the cantonal school in Aarau , where he met the later Federal Councilor Emil Welti and became friends with him. Both studied law and for this purpose spent several semesters together at the universities of Jena and Berlin . During his studies in 1845 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar . After Wildi had received his doctorate in 1848 , he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau the following year , to which he belonged until 1852. In the meantime he was admitted to the bar in 1850 and was a member of the Constitutional Council from 1849 to 1851, which drafted a new cantonal constitution.

In 1851 the Great Council appointed Wildi President of the District Court in Brugg . In 1854 he married Anna Wassmer, with whom he had two daughters. The Great Council appointed him to the Aargau Higher Court in 1860 , to which he initially belonged for five years. In 1865 he set up his own law firm in Brugg, but gave up just a year later and was re-elected as chief judge. He was President of the Supreme Court several times, as well as presiding over the criminal court, the prosecution and the jury. In the Swiss Army he had the rank of captain . In 1868 Wildi was elected to the National Council in the Aargau-Mitte constituency to replace the late Samuel Schwarz . He was only a member of parliament for around a year and a half because he did not run for the 1869 elections.

Wildi remained chief judge until his death at the age of 79. In addition, he took on numerous voluntary activities. For example, he was treasurer and chairman of the board of directors of the Savings and Leihkasse Brugg, chairman of school maintenance and the district school council, school inspector and director of the Effingen educational institution . In addition, was a co-founder of the Brugger City Library.

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. 878-879 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 315-316.

Web links

• Patrick Zehnder: Wildi, Samuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .