Ludwig von Moos

Ludwig von Moos ( born January 31, 1910 in Sachseln, † November 26, 1990 in Bern ) was a Swiss lawyer and politician (CVP ). He was from 1959 to 1971 Member of the Swiss government, the Federal Council, and was at the Justice and Police before. He officiated in 1964 and 1969 as the Federal President. From 1943 to 1959 he was a member of the Council of States.

Life

Von Moos was born in Sachseln the son of the station master Konstantin von Moos and Elisabeth Ackermann from the Entlebuch. He married 1939 Helena Regina Durrer, daughter of Zeno Durrer from core. The couple had seven children, two of whom are deaf. His grandfather Niklaus von Moos ( June 1, 1828 - May 11, 1973) Regierungsrat was in Obwalden. His high school studies at the college in Sarnen he graduated in 1930 from the high school and then studied law at the University of Freiburg ( in Fribourg ). There he was a member of the compound AKV Alemannia and thus the Swiss student association. He graduated in 1934 with a degree. From 1935 to 1942 he was editor of Obwalden Volksfreund.

Von Moos was chairman of the Obwaldner Kantonalbank, president of the conservative party Obwalden, Board of Directors and Vice President of the Swiss Federal Railways and a member of the Federal Board of Education ( ETH Board ). In 1964, the University of Freiburg, he was named an honorary Doctor of Law.

On November 26, 1990 Ludwig von Moos died after a long illness in Bern.

Municipal and cantonal mandates

Von Moos was from 1934 to 1959 Parish Clerk of Sachseln, 1934-1946 Sachseln community and citizens' council and from 1941 to 1946 in addition mayor of Sachseln. From 1941 to 1943 he was the Cantonal Council, 1943-1946 Member and Vice- President of the High Court and from 1946 to 1959 Councillor in Obwalden. There he was for two years Director of Justice and from 1948 to 1959 Head of the Police Department. In the years 1953, 1955, 1957 and 1959 he was Chief Magistrate of the canton of Obwalden.

Mandates at the federal level

In 1943 was chosen by moss at the age of only 33 years in the Senate, whose member he remained until 1959.

He was elected as the first representative of early Switzerland to the Federal Council on 17 December 1959. At 31 December 1971 came from moss in the current legislative period 1971-1975 back. His resignation is - at least according to Paul Vogel Ignaz - can also be seen in connection with the withdrawal request addressed to it, the (see below) criticism of the book and its responsibility for civil defense posts Obwaldner friend of the people.

During his tenure, he stood before the Justice and Police. Bundesrat of moss has enforced or initiated a number of draft laws: revisions in private law concerning protection of privacy, ownership and condominiums, construction law and real estate transactions, peasant civil law, labor and termination as well as changes or innovations in public law concerning pollution control, land tenure, land acquisition by persons abroad ( Lex moss ) and administrative jurisdiction. During his tenure, the legal acquisition of heritage assets in the non- reporting decision of 20 December 1962 on the assets located in Switzerland falls racially, religiously or politically persecuted foreigners or stateless persons. At the end of the term of office of Moss ' were the introduction of women's voting and election right at the national level (1971) and the treatment initiated by him as Senate abolition of the confessional exceptional article. These were abolished in 1973.

In the years 1964 and 1969 was of moss and President in 1963 and 1968 Vice President.

Criticism

Articles of Obwalden Volksfreund

The end of 1969 rose Ignaz Paul Bird in his journal the charge neutrality, Federal Councillor Ludwig von Moos was anti-communist and fascist and had been close to the anti-Semitism of the Nazis. Bird was mainly related to anti-Semitic comments that were published in Obwalden friend of the people in the 1930s. Von Moos correspondent and from September 1935 to 1942 alone responsible editor of this newspaper had been. The neutrality of published relevant passages from the Obwaldner friend of the people.

On December 29, 1969 in bird called a press conference for the resignation of President of Moss because of his work as editor of Obwalden Volksfreund. On the same day gave the Federal Justice and Police Department issued a statement: The quotes from the Obwaldner friend of the people would give a " distorted picture " again. "They are torn out of the overall context of the time and the historical reality. " After you specify in an article of the mirror can not be detected if the set of moss to load articles have been written by himself, because they were not drawn to the part name. In the spring of 2012 took Angelo Garovi, retired state archivist of Obwalden and son of Ludwig von Moos, the allegations together and put them debilitating arguments in an article in the Swiss Journal of History over. In the following issue of this magazine, the historian Thomas Maissen and Urs Altermatt continued the debate and orteten need for further research.

Book civil defense

Von Moos wrote the foreword to the " little red book " civil defense, 1969, all Swiss households was distributed on behalf of the Federal Council. The book was a guide to psychological defense of the country during the Cold War. Main author of the book was Colonel Albert Bachmann, however, was of moss as head of the Justice and Police is responsible for the publication of Scripture. The book turned against revolutionary -minded organizations, but also against peace movements and critics of military spending. The prevailing climate of suspicion in the book and the Inquisition spirit caused protests in public, the book became a scandal.

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