Max Weber (politician)

Studies and career

Wire of a teacher and a domestic mistress, it studies the economy and obtains a Doctorat in 1919.
It accomplishes voyages in France, the United Kingdom and to the the United States.
It is influenced by Leonhard Ragaz and is close to the Socialisme religious.
Conscientious objector, it refuses to make its military service, which is worth one week of prison to him and the exclusion of the armed .
In 1922, it is journalist with the Volkstimme of Saint-Gall.
In 1926 collaborator with the secretariat of the Swiss European Public Service Union. He criticizes in particular the deflationary policy of the government. He is one of the protagonists of the Initiative of crisis (of tendency keynésienne), rejected in 1935.
In 1940, it chairs the Federation of the Ouvrier S of the Bois and the building.
In 1944, it takes the direction of the Swiss Union of the co-operatives.

the December 13rd 1951, election with the Federal council.
It directs the department of finances of January 1st 1952 to the January 31st 1954. It encounters the same difficulties as its predecessor Ernst Nobs.

After the rejection of its financial program, however adopted by the Parliament, during a popular voting the December 6th 1953.
It presents at once its resignation , unusual step in Switzerland, and denounces the countryside deprived of scruples of its adversaries.

The socialist party is withdrawn then in the opposition and will turn over to the government only with one double representation (magic formula).

max Weber returns to the political life while being again made elect at the National council in 1955 and sits there until in 1971.
It belongs to the first Swiss members of Parliament members of the parliamentary Assemblée of the Council of Europe.
It in parallel occupies the pulpit of economy at the Universities of Bern and Basle.

the come retirement, it continues to publish economic articles in the socialist press and goes each day to the room of the journalists of the federal Palais.
It also worries about the training of the workmen.
Little before its death, it had taken part in a meeting of the central committee of the socialist party devoted to the voting on the financial mode of 1974. It had been provided with a package of specimens of the Berner Tagwacht of the day that it had distributed itself to the people present.

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