Simon Kaiser

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Simon Kaiser (born October 24, 1828 in Biberist , † March 27, 1898 in Muralto ) was a Swiss politician , legal scholar and bank manager . From 1857 to 1887 he was a member of the National Council (1868/69 and 1883/84 as President of the National Council ).

biography

The son of a veterinarian and chief judge studied law at the Universities of Freiburg , Heidelberg and Paris as well as at the Geneva Academy . During his student days he joined the Swiss Zofingerverein . From 1853 Kaiser was an editor at the radical liberal newspaper Solothurner Landbote , together with Wilhelm Vigier he was one of the leading personalities in the canton of Solothurn in the democratic movement that was triggered three years later . Also from 1853, Kaiser was the first secretary of the Federal Chancellery in Bern and established himself as an important scientist in the field of Swiss constitutional law with several extensive works .

Kaiser, described by contemporaries as headstrong and brusque, was elected director of the newly founded Solothurn Bank in 1857, and was elected to the Cantonal Council two years later . In the Cantonal Council, which he chaired a total of twelve times, he pursued a passionate anti-clerical course. Because of his emphatically independent stance towards the cantonal government , he was nicknamed "Government No. 2". Kaiser ran successfully in the National Council elections in 1857 and was re-elected nine times. In the National Council, he was considered an authority on financial and customs issues, so that he presided over the customs tariff commission. In 1868/69 and 1883/84 he held the office of President of the National Council. A particular concern for him was the abolition of the choice of compliments .

During the Kulturkampf from 1871 to 1875, Kaiser presided over the “Swiss Association of Liberal Catholics”, which was founded as a protest against the dogmas of the First Vatican Council and from which the Christian Catholic Church in Switzerland emerged. In 1887 the Solothurner Bank, whose director was still Kaiser, was to be merged with the Solothurner Hypothekenkasse to form the Solothurner Kantonalbank . Extensive balance sheet falsifications came to light. Although Kaiser himself was acquitted in court, he was held politically responsible and he lost all his offices. He remained active as a journalist for some time and spent the last years of his life in the canton of Ticino .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Kaiser in the digital Alfred Escher letter edition . Retrieved August 9, 2017.
  2. ↑ Markus Angst: The Solothurn bank crash and the constitutional revision of 1887 , Diss. Zurich, 1986
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Beaverist
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1898
Place of death Muralto