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Emil Lohner
Emil Lohner (15 April 1865 – 24 February 1959) was a Swiss politician ( FDP / PRD) initially on a cantonal level and later nationally. Biography Provenance and early years Karl Emil Lohner was born in Thun, a small town with a well-diversified economy in central Switzerland. Emil August Lohner (1840–1927), his father, worked as a physician. His great grandfather, Carl Friedrich Ludwig Lohner (1786-1863), had been a member of the Cantonal Executive Council of Bern, serving in 1835 as cantonal Landammann (head of government), alsp notable as a coin collector. The Lohner family was well-connected within and beyond the Canton of Bern, and moderately prosperous. In 1883 Lohner successfully completed his schooling at Burgdorf and moved on to the University of Bern in order to obtain a degree in Jurisprudence in preparation for work as a lawyer. Following qualification he worked briefly as a junior lawyer in Thun at the legal firm of Johannes Ritschard, his father-in-law, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thun
, neighboring_municipalities= Amsoldingen, Heiligenschwendi, Heimberg, Hilterfingen, Homberg, Schwendibach, Spiez, Steffisburg, Thierachern, Uetendorf, Zwieselberg , twintown = , website = www.thun.ch Thun (french: Thoune) is a town and a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located where the Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), southeast of Bern. the municipality has almost about 45,000 inhabitants and around 80,000 live in the agglomeration. Besides tourism, machine and precision instrument engineering, the largest garrison in the country, the food industry, armaments and publishing are of economic importance to Thun. The official language of Thun is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect. History The area of what is now Thun was inhabited since the Neolithic age (mid-3rd millennium BC). Durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
