Johann Friedrich Willading

Johann Friedrich Willading (born 1641—died Dec. 5, 1718) was a Swiss statesman who played a significant role in securing the transfer of the principality of Neuchâtel to the Prussian house of Hohenzollern (1707). Descended from a Bernese patrician family, Willading had, by 1694, become the leader of Bern’s anti-French party and for several years helped to secure asylum for fugitive French Huguenots. Between 1694 and 1707 he directed Bernese policy in the question of the...