Fridolin Anderwert
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Fridolin Anderwert (19 September 1828, in Frauenfeld<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> – 25 December 1880) was a Swiss politician.
He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on 10 December 1875 and was member of the council until 25 December 1880.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was affiliated to the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland.
During his office time he held the Department of Justice and Police and was Vice-President of the Swiss Confederation in 1880.
On 7 December 1880 he was elected President of the Swiss Confederation for the year 1881. Immediately after the election a nasty campaign against him broke out in the press, in particular about the eating habits of the obese bachelor, but also rumors that he was a regular visitor in brothels.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Drawn by physical exhaustion and severe depression,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Anderwert killed himself on Christmas Day 1880 on the "Kleine Schanze", a small park next to the Houses of Parliament.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The only published sentence of his farewell letter states: "They want a victim, they shall have it."
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- People from Frauenfeld
- Swiss Old Catholics
- Free Democratic Party of Switzerland politicians
- Members of the Federal Council (Switzerland)
- Justice ministers of Switzerland
- Members of the National Council (Switzerland) 1878–1881
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- Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland judges
- Politicians who died by suicide
- Suicides by firearm in Switzerland
- 19th-century Swiss judges
- Heads of state who died by suicide