Samuel Schwarz (politician)

Samuel Black ( born March 5, 1814 Mülligen, † March 11, 1868 in Kuettigen; homeland justified in Mülligen ) was a Swiss politician and military officer. From 1848 to 1868, he was Councillor of the Canton of Aargau, from 1852 to 1857, he represented the Aargau in the Senate, from 1866 to his death in the National Council.

Biography

Black graduated from the district school in Lenzburg and the cantonal school in Aarau. He then studied law at the Universities of Zurich and Heidelberg and at the academy in Lausanne. In Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Helvetia. In 1839 he admitted to the bar, after which he led his own law firm in Brugg. In 1842 he was elected to the Grand Council, where he served for ten years.

After Friedrich Frey- Herosé 1848 was elected Federal Councillor, Black joined its successor in the Canton government. Because of his military career - he was at this time Major - he took over the Military Department ( the army at that time was still the responsibility of the cantons). From 1849 to 1851 he was involved in the drafting of a new cantonal constitution as the Constitutional Council. 1855 Black was promoted to the Federal Supreme, as such, he commanded various branches of several cantons. He was also Infanterinspektor and from 1866 commander of the central military school in Thun.

The Grand Council ordered in 1852 from Black in the Senate. 1855/56 he was Senate president. As chairman of the Permanent Military Commission, he held great influence. A particular concern of his was the abolition of the parade drills to allow more time for field service training to win. Black promoted the creation of the Federal Polytechnic Institute (now ETH Zurich ) and tried, this is the incorporation of a military science institute. In 1857 he renounced because of increased stress as a troop leader for re-election as a Councillor, was succeeded by the later Federal Emil Welti.

Black took over in the Canton Government, the Building Department, which at that time the railway was in the foreground. In 1865, he took along with Hermann Siegfried in a brochure of the opinion that from a military standpoint, the Gotthard Railway is preferable as transalpine railway. In October 1866 Black was elected to the National Council and took over the presidency of the Military Commission. Eighteen months later, he succumbed to pneumonia.