Surf Wiki
Save to docs
history

From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Züriputsch

Attempted coup d'état in Switzerland, 1839

Züriputsch
Summary

Attempted coup d'état in Switzerland, 1839

Fighting on the [[Paradeplatz]] (Lithography, Zentralbibliothek Zürich)
''Kolonne Ralin'' retreating from [[Münsterhof]] square towards (as of today) [[Limmatquai]], [[Grossmünster]] and [[Wasserkirche]] (to the right) in the background.

The Züriputsch of 6 September 1839 was a putsch of the rural conservative population against the liberal rule of the city of Zurich on the eve of the formation of the Swiss federal state. The reason for the putsch was the appointment of the controversial German theologian David Strauss to the theological faculty of the University of Zurich by the liberal government. The rural population saw the old religious order in danger.

Events

Led by Bernhard Hirzel, pastor of Pfäffikon, several thousand putschists stormed the city from the west, and fought the cantonal troops in the alleys between Paradeplatz and Fraumünster. Botanist and councillor Johannes Jacob Hegetschweiler was shot in the head as he was acting as a mediator between the city's council and the insurgents. He died three days later.

The Swiss German term putsch, originally referring to any sort of hit, stroke or collision, entered the German language as a political term, popularized by Gottfried Keller. The word gained further use during the First World War, as the equivalent of the English "push," to mean "going over the top" from a trench into no man's land. The derived verb aufputschen remains common in Standard German for "to incite", "to excite", in political or in doping contexts.

References

References

  1. Bürgi, Markus. (August 24, 2006). "Hegetschweiler, Johannes". [[Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  2. (1992). "[Clarification of a political assassination in 1839: statesman Johannes Hegetschweiler shot during civil unrest in Zurich]". Schweizerische Rundschau für Medizin Praxis.
  3. (August 24, 1840). "Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft". chez Joseph-Louis Piller, imprimeur cantonal..
  4. [http://www.dwds.de/?view=1&qu=Putsch Etymology and definition of ''Putsch''] in German
  5. (September 13, 2000). "Kleine Zürcher Verfassungsgeschichte 1218–2000". [[:de:Staatsarchiv des Kantons Zürich.
  6. Pfeifer, Wolfgang. (January 31, 1993). "Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen". [[Akademie Verlag]].
Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

coups-d'état-in-switzerland 1830s-coups-d'état 1839-in-switzerland conflicts-in-1839 history-of-christianity-in-switzerland
Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Züriputsch — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report