Walter Hauser
Walter Hauser ( born May 1, 1837 in Wädenswil; † 22 October 1902 in Bern ) was a Swiss businessman and politician ( FDP). The tannery, which he had inherited from his father, was among the largest in Switzerland. From 1869 to 1881 he was the Zurich Cantonal, then seven years Regierungsrat. At the federal level, he initially belonged from 1869 to 1875 at the National Council, from 1879 to the Council of States. In December 1888 Hauser was elected to the Federal Council, where he remained until his death. Apart from a brief exception, he always managed the Department of Finance. In 1892 and 1900 he was President.
Biography
Work and other activities
The second youngest son of a wealthy tanner and Staff Captain Jacob Arnold Hauser attended elementary school and the Institute army at his birthplace, higher secondary school in Zurich. Hauser was actually going to become a pharmacist later. But when his eldest brother died, he entered in 1854 in its place in her father's company, completed a Gerber teaching and was promoted to general manager and owner. His tannery was one of the largest in Switzerland.
Hauser married in 1865 Marie Sophie Wiedemann, the couple had four daughters. In the army was Hauser officer of artillery. In 1875 he was promoted to major, lieutenant-colonel in 1880, 1888 to the Supreme. He was also commander of the fire brigade Wädenswil. Technical innovations he was always open; he belonged to the Inititanten the left bank Zürichseebahn (1859 ), the Wädenswil -Einsiedeln Railway ( 1870) and the gas works Wädenswil ( 1874).
Cantonal and national policy
Late 1860s Hauser became politically active and joined the left-liberal democratic movement, which campaigned for direct democracy, social reform and a centralized state. As a Constitutional Council, he participated in the drafting of the new constitution of the canton of Zurich. In 1869 he was elected to the cantonal parliament. In 1881 he was elected to the State Council. In the Canton government he headed until 1887 the Department of Finance, then the Building Department.
From 1869 Hauser also belonged to the National Council, where he was deeply involved in the debates on the total revision of the Federal Constitution. He was the subsidization of the Gotthard Railway by the federal government hostile to, as he promised greater benefits for the Canton of Zurich from one orbit under the Splügenpass. In 1875, he opted not to run again. But when his friend Wilhelm Hertenstein was elected to the Federal Council in 1879, he took over his seat in the Senate. In 1880 he sold his tannery in order to devote himself to politics may 1883 he was Senate president.
Bundesrat
Three weeks after Herten 's Death Hauser was determined on 13 December 1888 by the United Federal Assembly as his successor, which he received in the first ballot 117 of 174 valid votes. On the same day he was awarded the Military Department assigned to his office, he took up at the beginning of 1889. In 1891 he stood before the Tax and Customs Department. In 1892, he was the first Federal President, but did not take over as normal practices accordingly the Political Department, as Numa Droz claimed this fixed for itself. In Hauser's second year as president in 1900 but this was not the case.
Hauser was considered thrifty Finance and benefited from his experience as a Councillor. Thanks to rapidly increasing customs revenue he could provide enough funds for the upcoming nationalization of the railways. With his project of a state bank at the federal level, however, he had no success. A similar constitutional amendment in 1897 rejected by the people. Only nine years later, the foundation of the Swiss National Bank.
In the midst of the work suffered Hauser on October 21, 1902 from a stroke that paralyzed him. The next day, he died at the age of 66 years. In Wädenswil remember a monument and a street name to him.