Johann Rudolf Schneider

Johann Rudolf Schneider (born 23 October 1804 in Meienried, Canton of Bern;[1] died 14 January 1880[2]) was a Swiss physician, political leader, and initiator of the Jura water correction.

Accordingly, 1840, he founded the "Society preparatory to the Jura water correction", (Vorbereitungs-Gesellschaft der Jura-Gewässer-Correction), which commissioned the Grisons canton engineer Richard La Nicca to draw and conceive a project.

In the 1830s he supported political emigrants such as Giuseppe Mazzini, Karl Mathy and Jan Pawel Lelewel, who lived in exile in the region of Biel/Bienne.

In this role, he directed 1847, together with Ulrich Ochsenbein and Jakob Stämpfli the memorable session of the government in Bern, which decided the Sonderbund war, which was to become the fundament of the foundation of the modern Federal State of Switzerland.

He belonged to the radical wing of the Liberals As at the elections in 1850 in change of majority occurred in the Canton of Bern, Schneider resigned from the government.