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Ludwig Forrer

Swiss statesman
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Ludwig Forrer (born Feb. 9, 1845, Islikon, Switz.—died Sept. 28, 1921, Bern) was a Swiss statesman, twice elected federal president of the Swiss Confederation, who was a noted proponent of Swiss legal reform. A leader of Zürich radicalism and a lawyer of national prominence, Forrer served between 1873 and 1900 on the federal Nationalrat (national assembly), where he continually pressed for standardization of the legal code. In 1888 he presented a motion for penal law...

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