Silvan Schwerzmann

Silvan Schwerzmann (born July 6, 1800 in Zug ; † April 5, 1866 there ) was a Swiss politician and judge . From 1848 to 1853 he was a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of a salt merchant graduated from the lower secondary school in Zug and the Lyceum in Lucerne . From 1825 to 1842 he worked as a signatory, then until 1848 as the second land clerk for the Canton of Zug . In 1850/51 he held the presidium of the Zug Higher Court , and from 1851 to 1857 he was the presidium of the Cantonal Court . He was also President of the Zug Corporation from 1849 to 1860 . Schwerzmann was an exponent of the Catholic-conservative movement. In the election to the day statute envoy on the occasion of the Landsgemeinde in 1833, he sat down against the liberal Georg Joseph Sidlerby. As a result, the canton of Zug sided with opponents of the federal revision.

On November 22, 1847, Schwerzmann signed the surrender of the Canton of Zug in the Sonderbund War . Despite the dissolution of the Sonderbund , the Catholic Conservatives continued to set the tone in the canton of Zug. Schwerzmann was elected to the Grand Council in 1848, to which he belonged continuously until 1863. In the first Swiss parliamentary elections in October 1848 he was elected to the first Zug National Council. In parliament he belonged to the Catholic-Conservative opposition, in 1853 he resigned. From 1850 to 1863 he was President of the Zug Education Council. He advocated the expansion of the higher education system.

Web links

• Renato Morosoli: Schwerzmann, Silvan. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .