Johann Ulrich Schiess

	Johann Ulrich Schiess Johann Ulrich Schiess (21 February 1813 in Wald, Switzerland – 6 July 1883) was a Swiss politician who served as the third Chancellor of Switzerland. After having studied at the University of Bâle, he successively studied at Jena, Berlin, and Göttingen, where he obtained a doctorate in 1835. He was a member of the ''Jenaischen'' fraternity. Beginning his working life as an archivist, he became a magistrate from 1836 to 1839 and was elected Chancellor of State of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden (1839-1847). In July 1847, he learned from the newspapers of his appointment as Secretary of State of the Confederacy and took office in November 1847. He also acted as the Federal Chancellor after the resignation of Franz Josef Karl Amrhyn in the Sonderbund crisis. In the autumn of 1848, the Diet formally elected Schiess as the first Chancellor of the Confederation following the adoption of the Federal Constitution of 1848, a position he held for 33 years. He was awarded an honora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Federal Chancellor Of Switzerland The Federal Chancellor is the head of the Federal Chancellery of Switzerland, the oldest Swiss federal institution, established at the initiative of Napoleon in 1803. The officeholder acts as the general staff of the seven-member Federal Council. The Chancellor is not a member of the government and the office is not at all comparable to that of the Chancellor of Germany or the Chancellor of Austria. The current Chancellor, Walter Thurnherr, a member of The Centre from Aargau, was elected on 9 December 2015. He began his term on 1 January 2016. Thurnherr was reelected on 11 December 2019. Election The Federal Chancellor is elected for a four-year term by both chambers of the Federal Assembly, assembled together, at the same time (and by the same process) as it elects the Federal Council. The election is conducted by secret ballot using an exhaustive ballot in which each member of the Assembly can vote for any eligible person in the first two rounds, but only remaining candid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Karl Nikolaus Von Flüe AmRhyn Josef Franz von Sales Johann Baptist Karl Nikolaus von Flüe Amrhyn (11 February 1800 in Lucerne, Switzerland – 7 April 1849), was a Swiss politician who served as the second Chancellor of Switzerland from 1831 to 1847. Biography Son of former Diet President Joseph Karl Amrhyn, he studied at the Pestalozzi school of the château Yverdon (1810-1812), then at the gymnasium and lyceum of Lucerne before pursuing legal study at Göttingen, Freiburg-im-Brisgau, and Paris (1820-1823). In 1822 he joined the ''Old Freiburger'' fraternity. He began his career as a private secretary to his father before being named deputy magistrate in Lucerne in 1824, where he would play a controversial role in the trial of the murder of Franz Xaver Keller. He then served as Secretary of State of the Confederation (1825-1830), then Chancellor of the Confederation on the proposal of his predecessor Jean-Marc Mousson from 1831 to 1847. Catholic and moderately liberal, he was opposed to the objectives of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Gottlieb Ringier Karl Albrecht Gottlieb Ringier (8 December 1837 – 7 January 1929) was a Swiss politician, President of the Swiss Council of States The Council of States (german: Ständerat, french: Conseil des États, it, Consiglio degli Stati, rm, Cussegl dals Stadis) is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, with the National Council being the lower house. It compri ... (1875) and Federal Chancellor (1882–1909). Biography Ringier's father was a reformed pastor who supervised the parish Sumiswald at the time of his birth. In 1843 he was appointed to Huttwil, where Ringier would attend school. Having spent his youth in Emmental and studied at Aarau, he studied law at the universities of Bâle, Munich, and Heidelberg. He had to terminate his doctoral studies after the death of his father in 1860 following financial difficulties. He opened his law firm in Zofingue, and was elected to the cantonal parliament in 1862, serving from 1862 to 1864, and again from 1875 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1813 Births Events January–March * January 18–January 23 – War of 1812: The Battle of Frenchtown is fought in modern-day Monroe, Michigan between the United States and a British and Native American alliance. * January 24 – The Philharmonic Society (later the Royal Philharmonic Society) is founded in London. * January 28 – Jane Austen's '' Pride and Prejudice'' is published anonymously in London. * January 31 – The Assembly of the Year XIII is inaugurated in Buenos Aires. * February – War of 1812 in North America: General William Henry Harrison sends out an expedition to burn the British vessels at Fort Malden by going across Lake Erie via the Bass Islands in sleighs, but the ice is not hard enough, and the expedition returns. * February 3 – Argentine War of Independence: José de San Martín and his Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers gain a largely symbolic victory against a Spanish royalist army in the Battle of San Lorenzo. * February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Federal Chancellors Of Switzerland Federal or foederal (archaic) may refer to: Politics General Federal monarchy, a federation of monarchies Federation, or ''Federal state'' (federal system), a type of government characterized by both a central (federal) government and states or regional governments that are partially self-governing; a union of states Federal republic, a federation which is a republic Federalism, a political philosophy Federalist, a political belief or member of a political grouping Federalization, implementation of federalism Particular governments Federal government of the United States United States federal law United States federal courts Government of Argentina Government of Australia Government of Pakistan Federal government of Brazil Government of Canada Government of India Federal government of Mexico * Federal government of Nigeria Government of Russia Government of South Africa Government of Philippines Other ''The Federalist Papers'', critical early arguments in fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]