Editing Walter Hauser (section)

== Career ==
Open to technical innovations, Hauser was one of the founders of the left bank of the Zurichseebahn in 1859, the Wädenswil-Einsiedeln-Bahn in 1870 and the [[Wädenswil]] gasworks in 1874.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2011-01-05 |title=Der Turnverein macht die Politik |url=https://www.nzz.ch/der_turnverein_macht_die_politik-ld.965697 |access-date=2024-02-11 |work=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]] |language=de-CH |issn=0376-6829}}</ref>

He was elected to the Federal Council on 13 December 1888 and died in office on 22 October 1902. He was affiliated to the [[Free Democratic Party of Switzerland]].

During his office time he held the following departments:
*[[Military Department (Switzerland)|Military Department]] (1889–1890)
*[[Department of Finance (Switzerland)|Department of Finance]] (1891–1899)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.efd.admin.ch/efd/de/home/das-efd/der-departementsvorsteher/ueli-maurer/fruehere-departmentsvorsteher.html|title=Frühere Departmentsvorsteher/Innen}}</ref>
*[[Federal Department of Foreign Affairs|Political Department]] (1900)
*[[Department of Finance (Switzerland)|Department of Finance]] (1901–1902)
He was [[President of the Confederation (Switzerland)|President of the Confederation]] twice in 1892 and 1900.