Wilhelm Karl Baldinger

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Wilhelm Karl Baldinger (born November 30, 1810 in Baden ; † July 13, 1881 there ) was a Catholic-conservative Swiss politician . From 1852 to 1866 he represented the canton of Aargau in the National Council . His younger brother Karl Ludwig Baldinger was also a member of the National Council.

biography

The son of the judge Johann Ludwig Baldinger attended secondary school in Baden. In 1826 he moved to Aarau to live with his brother Karl Ludwig, who was ten years older than him. There he graduated from the canton school . He completed his secondary education in 1829 at the Lyceum in Lucerne . During this time he joined the Swiss Zofinger Association . He then studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich . From 1832 he ran a law firm in Baden for almost five decades, which had an impeccable reputation beyond the canton's borders.

Baldinger's political career began in 1837 when he was elected to the Aargau Grand Council , of which he was a member until 1868. In the years 1854, 1858 and 1863 he was President of the Grand Council. Baldinger was a leader of the moderate Catholic-conservative opposition and was also respected by his liberal opponents. In 1841 he mediated in the Aargau monastery dispute , two years later he represented the former abbot of the abolished Muri monastery in court . However, there was no verdict because the Grand Council decreed an amnesty in 1845.

As a member of the municipal railway commission, Baldinger was involved in the Swiss Northern Railway , the first railway line in Switzerland. In 1852 he succeeded his brother in the National Council and was a member of it for 14 years. From 1845 he was married to Maria Hermil, from 1865 to Maria Bühler, the daughter of the Lucerne National Councilor Josef Sigmund Bühler ; both marriages remained childless. He bequeathed most of his fortune to the city of Baden to build a bath for the poor, an institution for the deaf and dumb and a gymnasium.

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. 38-40 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Karl Baldinger in the digital Alfred Escher letter edition . Retrieved August 9, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Baldinger, Wilhelm Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH to bathe
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1881
Place of death to bathe