Fridolin Anderwert

Fridolin Anderwert (19 September 1828, in Frauenfeld[1] – 25 December 1880) was a Swiss politician.

During his office time he held the Department of Justice and Police and was Vice-President of the Swiss Confederation in 1880.

On 7 December 1880 he was elected President of the Swiss Confederation for the year 1881.

Immediately after the election a nasty campaign against him broke out in the press, in particular about the eating habits of the obese bachelor, but also rumors that he was a regular visitor in brothels.

[3] Drawn by physical exhaustion and severe depression,[4] Anderwert killed himself on Christmas Day 1880 on the "Kleine Schanze", a small park next to the Houses of Parliament.