Ernst Nobs
Ernst Nobs (* July 14, 1886 in Seedorf, † 13 March 1957 Miles) was a Swiss politician ( SP) from the canton of Zurich. As he was Federal Minister of Finance and held once the office of president.
Career
Growing up in Grindelwald, the son of a master tailor, Ernst Nobs was originally a teacher in Wynau and Ostermundigen (1906-1912), then a journalist. Since 1912 he worked as an editor for various newspapers of the party SP, the " outdoor Central Switzerland » ( Lucerne ) and the voice of the people in St. Gallen. In 1915 he became editor in chief of the largest social-democratic newspaper " People's Law " in Zurich. Nobs in 1916 was chosen for the SP in the Great City Council of Zurich, where he remained until 1933. In 1919 he was sentenced in connection with the general strike by a military court to imprisonment, the same year he also achieved a leap in the National Council. After 1933 he was retired from the City Council of Zurich, Nobs was elected in 1935 in the government of the canton of Zurich. This office he resigned in 1942, when he was elected as the successor to Emil Klöti as Mayor of Zurich.
After the general election in the fall of 1943, the SP was the largest party in parliament and rose after the announced resignation of Ernst Wetter claim to the vacant seat of the FDP. On December 15, 1943 Ernst Nobs was ever elected as the first Social Democrat to the Federal Council on the first ballot.
From its predecessor assumed Nobs on 1 January 1944, the Federal Finance and Customs Department. Reasons of age, he gave his resignation on November 13, 1951 to December 31, 1951 known. He was Vice President of the Bundesrat in 1948 and 1949, Federal President. His federal financial reform failed 1950.
The city of Zurich appointed on 17 December 2003 by the former Stauffacher place in Ernst Nobs Square.