Editing Walter Hauser

{{short description|Swiss politician}}
{{for|the Swiss Olympic weightlifter|Walter Hauser (weightlifter)}}
[[Image:Hauser.gif|thumb|right|Walter Hauser]]
[[Image:Schweizerische Bundesbahn-Anleihe 1899.JPG|thumb|Bond for the Swiss Federal Railways, issued 28 June 1899, signed by Walter Hauser as the boss of the Department of Finance]]
'''Walter Hauser''' (1 May 1837 in [[Wädenswil]] – 22 October 1902) was a Swiss politician and member of the [[Swiss Federal Council]] (1888–1902).

== 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.

== Family ==
Hauser was born into the family of Jakob Arnold Hauser and Emilie Theiler. In 1865, he married Marie-Sophie Wiedeman.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Das Bundesratslexikon |date=2019 |publisher=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung|NZZ]] Libro |isbn=978-3-03810-218-2 |editor-last=Altermatt |editor-first=Urs |location=Zürich |pages=189–192}}</ref>

== Commemoration ==
''Walther-Hauser-Strasse'' in [[Wädenswil]] is named after him.

== References ==
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==Further reading ==
* {{cite book|last=Ryser|first=Emil|title=Zur Erinnerung an unsere lieben Eltern (Bundesrat Walter Hauser, 1837-1902, Sophie Hauser, geb. Wiedemann, 1845-1931)|year=1931|publisher=Büchler & Co|location=Bern|language=German}}

==External links==
*{{Swiss Federal Councillor|walter-hauser}}
*{{HDS|3644}}

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{{succession box | before = [[Wilhelm Vigier]] | title = [[President of the Swiss Council of States|President of the Council of States]] | years = 1883/1884 | after = [[Martin Birmann]]}}
{{succession box | before = [[Wilhelm Hertenstein]] | title = [[Member of the Swiss Federal Council]] | years = 1888&ndash;1902 | after = [[Ludwig Forrer]]}}
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