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Ludwig Forrer

Swiss statesman
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Born:
Feb. 9, 1845, Islikon, Switz.
Died:
Sept. 28, 1921, Bern (aged 76)
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Ludwig Forrer (born Feb. 9, 1845, Islikon, Switz.—died Sept. 28, 1921, Bern) was a Swiss statesman, twice elected federal president of the Swiss Confederation, who was a noted proponent of Swiss legal reform. A leader of Zürich radicalism and a lawyer of national prominence, Forrer served between 1873 and 1900 on the federal Nationalrat (national assembly), where he continually pressed for standardization of the legal code. In 1888 he presented a motion for penal law reform, and between 1891 and 1893 he worked on the draft of an industrial insurance law that was rejected. Following the defeat of this proposal ...(100 of 147 words)

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