- Bernhard Hammer
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name = Bernhard Hammer
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birth_date = March 3, 1822
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death_date = April 6, 1907
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occupation =politician
nationality =SwissBernhard Hammer (
March 3 ,1822 -April 6 ,1907 ) was a Swiss politician.He was elected to the
Federal Council of Switzerland onDecember 10 ,1875 , and handed over office onDecember 31 ,1890 . He was affiliated with the Free Democratic Party.During his time in office he held the following departments:
*Department of Finance (1876 - 1878)
*Political Department as President of the Confederation (1879)
*Department of Finance (1880 - 1890)He was President of the Confederation twice, in 1879 and 1889.
The portrait of Hammer was painted in 1889 by the Swiss-born American artist
Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862-1947) and is signed Muller d'Uri. It was reproduced on the cover of the dust-wrapper and as the frontispiece of Eduard Fischer's biography 'Bundesrat Bernhard Hammer und Seine Zeit', published in Solothurn in 1970. Its present whereabouts (2007) is unknown.External links
*Swiss Federal Councillor|23
*HDS|3070Persondata
NAME=Hammer, Bernhard
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH=March 3, 1822
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DATE OF DEATH=April 6, 1907
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