Theodor Ziegler

Theodor Ziegler, painting by Caspar Ritter

Theodor Ziegler (born September 3, 1832 in Winterthur ; † December 9, 1917 there ; entitled to live there ) was a Swiss politician and lawyer .

Life

Ziegler attended schools in Winterthur, in 1849 the grammar school in Zurich and then studied law from 1851 to 1853 at the University of Zurich and the University of Heidelberg . After an internship in Lausanne , he worked as a lawyer from 1855 to 1866. He then was town clerk from 1866 to 1873 and in 1868/1869 as a democratic constitutional councilor in the 35th commission for the cantonal constitution of 1869 . From 1869 to 1877 he sat in the Zurich Cantonal Council and in 1869 for five months in the Council of States . As city president from 1873 to 1875, Ziegler was the highest political Winterthur.

As Johann Jakob Sulzer's right-hand man , Ziegler was one of the main initiators of Winterthur's railway policy. On July 12, 1872, the “Railway Company Winterthur – Singen – Kreuzlingen” (WSK) was constituted, with Sulzer as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Ziegler as Chairman of the Board of Directors. He was then director of the Swiss National Railroad, but after the national railroad crash in 1878 he restricted himself to local politics. In addition to his work as a lawyer, he sat on the City Council of Winterthur from 1879 to 1910 and also on the board of directors of the mechanical silk weaving mills in Winterthur from 1871 to 1917 .

literature

Erich Gruner : The Swiss Federal Assembly 1848–1920 (Helvetica Politica, Series A, I&II) . tape 2 . Bern 1966, p. 131 f .

Web links

Markus Bürgi: Theodor Ziegler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Theodor Ziegler on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals )

Individual evidence

Jump up ↑ Hans-Peter Bärtschi, Sylvia Bärtschi-Baumann, Peter Güller, Christian Jossi, Bruno Meyer, Peter Niederhäuser, Jörg Thalmann: The National Railway: Vision of a People's Railway . Ed .: Hans Peter Bärtschi. Profile Publishing, Wetzikon 2009, ISBN 978-3-907659-65-1 ( formally incorrect ) , p. 25 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ziegler, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH	Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 1917
Place of death	Winterthur

[1] Jump up ↑ Hans-Peter Bärtschi, Sylvia Bärtschi-Baumann, Peter Güller, Christian Jossi, Bruno Meyer, Peter Niederhäuser, Jörg Thalmann: The National Railway: Vision of a People's Railway . Ed .: Hans Peter Bärtschi. Profile Publishing, Wetzikon 2009, ISBN 978-3-907659-65-1 ( formally incorrect ) , p. 25 .