Ulrich Ochsenbein

[1] The family Ochsenbein moved to Valais where Ulrich attended school in Granges-Marnard for seven years.

[1] At the Gymnsium in Biel he then learned the old languages and from 1830 onwards studied law at the Academy in Bern.

[2] He served as a Feldwebel in the federal intervention in Basel Country in 1833 and was promoted to Unterleutntant in the artillery in 1834.

[4] Following the cantons of Lucerne, Zug, Valais, Schwyz, Fribourg, Uri and Unterwalden created the so-called Sonderbund.

[4] As he entered the Tagsatzung for the first time in August 1846, still known as the former leader of the rebels, Colonel Theodor Ab Yberg (from the Sonderbund) fiercely opposed him.

During his time as a federal councilor a fight broke out between the conservatives and a group of the radical party.

After he resigned from politics in Switzerland, he first considered an emigration to America but then became a military officer in France where he served as a Brigadier General in the German-French war.

[4] He was for quite some while forgotten by the political elite and only in recent years and with a biography published in 2009, he was sort of rehabilitated.