Franz Lindt | |
Office: | 6th Mayor of Bern |
Term Start: | 1895 |
Term End: | 1899 |
Predecessor: | Eduard Müller |
Successor: | Adolf von Steiger |
Office2: | Member of the Executive Council |
Term Start2: | 1872 |
Term End2: | 1894 |
Office3: | Grand Council of the Canton of Bern |
Term Start3: | 1894 |
Term End3: | 1895 |
Birth Date: | 11 September 1844 |
Birth Place: | Bern, Switzerland |
Death Place: | Bern, Switzerland |
Party: | Free Democrat |
Alma Mater: | Engineering School of Federal Polytechnic, Zürich |
Franz Lindt (11 September 1844 – 17 November 1901) was a Swiss politician who served as the sixth mayor of Bern.
Lindt graduated from the engineering School of Federal Polytechnic in Zürich.
After a brief stay abroad he became Adjunct at Bern Kantonsgeometer Franz Rudolf Jacob pipe. After this, he had been elected to the Executive Council in 1872, Lindt took office as Kantonsgeometer. In 1894, he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern, where he took over the building department. After Mayor Eduard Müller was elected in the Federal Council in 1895, Lindt took over the office of Mayor of Bern. In 1899, he resigned because of a back injury leaving him incapable to fulfill his duties as Mayor.