Alfred von Planta

Alfred von Planta ( born April 1, 1857 Schloss Reichenau Reichenau, community Tamins; † March 2, 1922 in Davos ) was a Swiss lawyer, diplomat, industrialist and politician.

Life

Alfred von Planta was born as the son of Agrikulturchemikers and bees Kund Jewellers Adolf von Planta from Graubünden noble family of Planta and Ursina Maria von Muralt. After dropping the Matura examination of the Grisons cantonal school in Chur, he studied at the Universities of Freiburg, Lausanne, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Zurich law. In Zurich, he joined the Corps Helvetia Zurich. In 1883 he graduated with a Doctorate in Law. from.

After graduation, he was initially 1884 to 1885 secretary of legation in Vienna before 1885 settled as a lawyer in Reichenau. Between 1885 and 1895 he was county judge and district judge from 1886 to 1896.

Political action

From 1889 to 1903 he was a member of the circle Trin the Grand Council of the Canton of Grisons, from 1893 to 1897 as its president.

From 1896 to 1914 he was a member of the National Council of Switzerland, but mainly as a fraction President. In 1914 he was president of the National Council.

After his parliamentary activity occurred von Planta in the diplomatic service. From 1915 to 1918 he was ambassador to Rome, and from 1919 to 1922 in Berlin.

From Planta was a staunch Federalist 's leading Grisons federal Democrats. In 1903, he stepped over to the interdenominational Conservative - Democratic Party. He sat down significantly and for the expansion of the Rhaetian Railway as well as a private-sector Grisons hydropower industry. In 1913, he pleaded against the adoption of the Gotthard contract.

Work in the Grisons economy

From Plantation one of the founders of the Rhaetian works in Thusis. Posthumously blame for the failure of the Grisons power plants in 1923 was attributed to him. Between 1905 and 1915 he was president of the power plants Brusio. The three power plant companies merged in 2000 to Raetia Energie AG.

From 1889 to 1901 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the United Swiss Railways. From 1897 to 1915 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Rhaetian Railway, from 1905, its President.

In addition, he has held numerous mandates in the banking industry, the insurance industry and in the tourism industry.

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