[5] He was commander of the Nidwalden battalion during the Sonderbund war in 1847,[3][2] a member of commission which drafted the Swiss constitution in 1849 and president of the municipality of Ennetbürgen between 1850 and 1857.

His rapid rise in the Dutch colonial army was distinguished by his laying the foundations for Borneo's infrastructure.

As a military and civilian commander, Borneo Louis ruled over a seventy thousand souls, mostly colonized by Bataken, for several years, thus defending European trade interests in Southeast Asia.

He was dependent on the cooperation of numerous local nobles and Chinese intermediate traders, from whom he learned not only fluent Malay, but also some other things.

His mother was a Javanese Malay, and Alois Wyrsch was therefore the first countryman and Swiss parliamentarians "of color", as one would say today.

[8] The Swiss Constitution was created by Ulrich Ochsenbein who headed it along with the following other members: Jonas Furrer, Jakob Robert Steiger, Franz Jauch, Melchior Diethelm, Alois Michel, Caspar Jenny-Becker, Franz Müller, Jean-François Marcellin Bussard, Josef Munzinger, Johann Georg Fürstenberger, later Felix Sarasin, Karl Spitteler, Johann Georg Böschenstein, Johann Konrad Oertli, Wilhelm Matthias Näff, Raget Abys, Friedrich Frey-Herosé, Johann Konrad Kern, Giacomo Luvini-Perseghini, Henri Druey, Maurice Barman, later Franz Kaspar Zen Ruffinen and Louis Rilliet.

[9] In 1824, Wyrsch married Johanna van den Berg (who went by Silla in Malay), a woman of Java, Malaysia.