Salomon Landolt

Salomon Landolt ( born December 10, 1741 Zurich, † November 26, 1818 in Andelfingen ) was a Swiss politician.

Life

Landolt's education was mainly at the Mother's father, General Salomon Hirzel, the (now part of the city of Winterthur) resided at Schloss Wülflingen. Here also found initial trials held in the painting. From 1765 Landolt then attended the military school at Metz, but shortly thereafter he began to study architecture in Paris. In 1768 he returned to Zurich and became a judge on the city court. An initiative for the reorganization of the Zurich militias went well out of him, as the construction of a sniper corps that already included 500 men after a few years and had acquired the discipline and the art of war a name for himself.

1776 Landolt found himself on a short stay in Berlin. The Prussian king Frederick the Great was the beiwohnende on horseback a wax Parade Landolt immediately. An invitation to an audience :: » Au Capitaine de Suisse Landolt du Canton de Zuric à Berlin: Mr. de Landolt. Votre demande d' ne rencontre pas la moindre here difficulté. Je vous permets d' assister à la revue de Mes troupes, partout ou vous voudrez, et sur ​​ce The prie Dieu, qu'il vous ait, Mr. de Landolt, en sa sainte et digne garde. : Potsdam ce 12 de May 1776 - Frederic "

A now extended time in Berlin gave Landolt, who held the letter always kept further insight into the Prussian officer and martial arts circles. An offer of the king, to take a leading position in the Prussian army, Landolt refused, however. After returning in November 1776, he was then elected Governor of Greifensee. The Bailiwick belonged to one of three so-called outer bailiwicks of Zurich. While the inner bailiwicks which were the city usually closer, the Small Council of the City co-administered, an administrator appointed for external bailiwicks. Among the external bailiwicks, including Kyburg and green rings are expected, Greifensee however, was the smallest and a further rise in the cursus honorum rather less conducive.

At the end of the Office Landolt soon received command of a troop contingent Zurich, which should protect Geneva. In 1795 he was elected Governor of Eglisau and remained in this office until the 1798 collapse of the old regime. In Eglisau the Solomon Landolt- way, a small Quartierweg reminded of his term of office. The country bailiwicks system has now been abolished, Landolt but elected by the Egli Auern president. In November 1798 he returned to the acquired after Greifenseer Good time in the narrow, situated on the river Sihl back.

In 1803 he was appointed on the basis of the new constitution member of the Legislative Council and president of the guild court Wiedikon and in January 1805 the Supreme Sniper Corps in order to (re) reorganize the Zurich troops. 1808, after the death of his housekeeper Marianne Klaissner, Landolt then sold his property in the confines and went to his brother in the castle depths. 1818 finally Landolt went to Andelfingen, where he died on 26 November 1818.

Gottfried Keller sat the Governor of Greifensee, Zurich eponymous novella The Governor of Greifensee a monument.