Henri Gaspard de Schaller
Henri Schaller ( born October 8, 1828 in Versailles, France, † May 18, 1900 in Freiburg) was a Swiss politician and the State Council of the Canton of Fribourg.
Schaller was Catholic and comes from a family of privileged citizenship of the city of Freiburg. His parents were Jean -François Schaller (1784-1860), captain in the French service, who survived the Spain ( 1808) and Invasion of Russia (1812 ), and Almire born de Clermont- bile edge, which belonged to the French nobility. After Jean -François Schaller had returned to Freiburg, he was a colonel in the Confederate troops and Inspector General of Freiburg troops. Henri Gaspard Schaller, first cousin of Julien Schaller, 1853 married Henriette de Spaur ( 1827-1900 ), from old South Tyrolean nobility.
After attending the College of St. Michael Henri Schaller served as a volunteer in a reserve company during the Sonderbundskrieg War ( November 1847 ). He studied law at the Freiburg Academy of Law and the Universities of Würzburg, Heidelberg and Paris, before he completed an internship at Advocate Wuilleret. 1855 appointed him to the State Council for radical writers of the Cantonal Court. The liberal- conservative government promoted him to chief official of the Sense district ( 1857-1858 ). Between 1857 and 1900 he was a member of the Sense district of the Grand Council.
On 11 May 1858, Henri Schaller of the cantonal parliament elected with 40 of 66 votes in the State Council of the Canton of Fribourg, where he remained until 1900, ie for 43 years, a record that placed him ahead of Georges Python (42 years from 1886 to 1927 ). Schaller presided over the government in 1881, 1893 and 1899. In Bern he sat in the Senate ( 1870-1896 ), which he was Chairman in 1892, and then in the National Council ( 1896-1900 ).
Schaller consecutively headed the Cultural Directorate (1858-1862), the Department of the Interior (1862-1872), the Department of Education (1872-1886) and the Police Directorate ( 1886-1900 ). He was a workaholic who left behind an extensive work. During his short time as a cult director, he continued Romain Werros policy that aimed to re-create good relations between the state and the Catholic Church, particularly with regard to the administration of church property and the goods confiscated some monasteries. As director of the Interior, he renewed the law on municipalities and parishes (1864 ), with the general councils were created in larger urban areas. He supported the establishment of the hospital of Billens (1866 ) and the psychiatric hospital in Marsens (1869 ), abolished laws on public assistance and begging beings (1869 ) as well as the homeless (1870 ) and supported agriculture ( assistance for the improvement of livestock, 1863, for the dairy cooperatives and dairies 1867), forestry, water control structures and the draining of wetlands. He also campaigned for the Water and Forestry Company and industrialization efforts Guillaume knight in the cantonal capital.
Schaller took over the Education Department at a time when the financial position of the State was less tense. So he was able to improve the wages of teachers ( 1872) and their pensions (1881 ). He abolished the law on secondary schools (1875 ) and received a good endowment for the teacher training college in Hauterive, the St. Michael's College advanced to a trade school and granted the college teachers a salary increase (1872 ). In addition, he supported the historical and natural science museums. He prepared the way for his successor, Georges Python, by opening up new primary schools, unified their material and gym class introduced. 1884 joined the new school law in force. For imported by him Matura exams, he received the recognition of the covenant. After leaving the Department of Education, he supported Georges Python attempts at establishing a university.
When police director Schaller established a penal colony in a Bellechasse (1899 ). He fought the increase of pints in Canton, which he regarded as hotbeds of alcoholism, and improved firefighters, reinforced by the fire department. Finally, he improved insurance against livestock diseases ( 1899).
Schaller was a more moderate conservative with some liberal ideas. Particularly clearly showed the its activities in the federal chambers, because he there felt less constrained by the Freiburg conditions. In Freiburg he stayed away from intrigues and conspiracies, but gradually approached the ultramontane Conservatives, the expression of a certain opportunism and a sense of political survival. In addition to politics, he had other interests and enthusiastic, for example, for the cantonal and national history. He was a member of the Société d' histoire du canton de Fribourg, he presided in 1877, the Société d' histoire de la Suisse Romande, the Economic Society, the Société des Beaux -Arts, and various other scientific, economic and artistic associations. Several historical works and articles written by him. Schaller was an official who could look back on a considerable body of work. Amiable and cheerful welcome in society and an excellent speaker, he had to undergo strict testing when his wife Henriette became insane. On May 18, 1900, he died after a long illness at the age of 72 years. He is one of the last representatives of the generation of politicians that the liberal-conservative regime established in 1856. His work is impressive, but is provided by that of Louis wake- Reynold Georges Python and in the shade.