Johannes Stössel

Stössel was born in 1837 in Bettswil as the son of a farmer. After finishing his training as a teacher in Küsnacht, he studied Legal science at the University of Zurich. After finishing his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1859, he then worked as a Privatdozent for National economy [de] at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and the ETH Zurich. In 1862, Stössel became the secretary of the Federal Statistics Bureau that was founded two years earlier.^[1] In 1864 he became the first editor of the Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics^[2] and president of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics.^[1]

As a Leader of the Democratic Movement of the Zürcher Oberland, Stössel was first a member of the Democratic Party until its dissolution. After which, he joined the Free Democratic Party and was later its third president in 1897.^[1]

Local

From 1869 to 1873, Stössel was Stadtholder of the Hinwil District. After which he was a prosecutor for two years. In 1875, he was elected to the Government Council of Zürich, where he served for 42 years,^[1] the longest in its history,^{[citation needed]} until 1917.^[1] He was its president seven times.^{[citation needed]}

National

In the 1878 Swiss federal election. Stössel was elected to the National Council as part of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the National Council until 1891, including a term as the president.^[1] In 1881, he ran for Chancellor of Switzerland but lost in the fourth round to Gottlieb Ringier.^[3] After his time in the National Council, he then became a member of the Council of States until 1905.^[1]

• Stössel, Johannes (1859). Die stillschweigende Willenserklärung nach römischem Rechte [The tacit declaration of intent under Roman law] (in German). Orell Füssli. OCLC 604444537. Retrieved 11 October 2024.