Édouard Dapples

Édouard Dapples ( born December 12, 1807 in Lausanne, † April 30, 1887 in Nice, home justified in Bremblens ) was a liberal Swiss politician.

Life

Dapples studied from 1825-1831 theology and philosophy at the Académie de Lausanne. However, he graduated from these courses do not. He then studied for health reasons Forestry in Bayreuth. In the years 1833-1840 he was county forester of Cote and 1840-1842 of Lausanne, where he was then from 1848-1851 Forstinspektor. From 1851 he was employed as a reindeer.

The first political office had Dapples as he worked from 1834 to 1842 the municipal council of Lausanne. In 1843 he was elected mayor in 1844 and the Parliament of the Canton of Vaud. The office of mayor he held until the year 1848 and that of Grossrats to 1845. Two years later, in 1847, he joined the Grand Council as a back up. 1851 Dapples was elected to the National Council. This office he held, with an interruption in the years 1854-1857, and 1866. In 1861 he presided at all the United Federal Assembly. In 1866 he finished his seat in the National and was then for two years to continue the Grand Council, whose term of office he had never given up since 1847.

Dapples was friends with the Swiss engineer William Fraisse and played an important role in the creation of the West Swiss railway network one. In the years 1865-1866 he worked as a director in the Railway Lausanne- Fribourg -Bern and in 1871 to the Compagnie de l' Ouest.

In Lausanne, Apple was considered a very popular and contributed significantly to the development of the city. So he sat down in his active political time for the expansion of the road network, the gas lighting and gas factories a. Also, as a patron, he contributed to the expansion of the city in which he supported the children's hospice and the Quai d'Ouchy. He owned, among others, the Grand Montriond, the castle Crissier that he might redeem from the Curchod heritage and other buildings in Lausanne and in Nice.

To honor his contributions to Lausanne, dedicated to him the city's Avenue Édouard - Dapples south of the station in the district Sous-Gare/Ouchy.