Simon Lack

Simon Lack (born October 28, 1805 in Kappel , † September 9, 1872 in Solothurn ) was a Swiss politician and judge . From 1849 to 1853 he was a member of the Council of States and from 1854 to 1857 he was a member of the National Council .

biography

The son of a farmer and salt manager studied law at the universities of Paris and Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1833, Lack worked as a lawyer in Solothurn . From 1833 to 1838 he also served there as a criminal judge. He was then President of the Solothurn-Lebern District Court . In this capacity he ordered the imprisonment of the Catholic-Conservative leaders in 1841 on the instructions of Josef Munzinger . He then held the same office in the Bucheggberg-Kriegstetten office until 1853 . In addition to his legal work, he was also director of the Von Roll ironworks.

Lack was elected to the Cantonal Council in 1831 . In 1834 he represented the canton of Solothurn as an envoy to the Diet , and from 1849 to 1853 as a Council of States . In 1853 he was elected to the Solothurn government council . In June 1854 he ran successfully in a by-election for the now vacant National Council seat of the late Niklaus Pfluger . Among the Solothurn liberals , Lack was one of the leaders of the old liberal “gray” who stood in opposition to the radical liberal “reds” around Wilhelm Vigier . Of these, Lack was ousted from the Cantonal Council and the Government Council in 1856 (in 1857 he renounced another National Council candidacy). He was then a government clerk for five years , and in 1861 he founded a financial company with Bernhard Hammer .

Web links

• Peter Walliser: Lack, Simon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .