{{Short description|Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 1945 to 1957}} {{Infobox officeholder | office = Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein | term_end = 13 July 1957 | term_start = 3 September 1945 | prime_minister = Alexander Frick | successor = Josef Büchel | predecessor = Alois Vogt | monarch = Franz Joseph II | birth_date = 31 October 1893 | birth_place = Vaduz, Liechtenstein | death_date = 13 July 1957 (aged 63) | death_place = Vaduz, Liechtenstein | signature = | party = Patriotic Union | spouse = {{marriage|Rosa Burtscher|1918}} | children = 4 | other_party = Christian-Social People's Party | image = Stellvertretender Ministerpräsident Ferdinand Nigg.jpg | caption = Nigg in 1925 }} '''Ferdinand Nigg''' ({{IPAc-en|n|ɪ|g}}, {{IPA|de|ˈfɛɾdiːˌnant nɪk|lang}}; 31 October 1893 – 13 July 1957) was a politician from Liechtenstein who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein from 1945 to 1957, under the government of Alexander Frick.
== Life == Nigg was born on 31 October 1893 in Vaduz as the son of a baker by the same name and his mother Baltissernée Celina as one of six children. He attended state school in the city.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Büchel |first=Donat |date=31 December 2011 |title=Nigg, Ferdinand (1893–1957) |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Nigg,_Ferdinand_%281893–1957%29 |access-date=23 September 2023 |website=Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein |language=de}}</ref>
From 1909 to 1911 Nigg worked at the Liechtenstein regional court, then from 1911 in the government chancellery. He became a chancellor in 1916 and then from 1920 head of the government chancellery.<ref name=":0" /> Nigg was involved in establishing an independent stamp policy in Liechtenstein, starting in 1919.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quaderer |first=Rupert |date=31 December 2011 |title=Briefmarkenaffäre |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Briefmarkenaffäre |access-date=23 September 2023 |website=Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein |language=de}}</ref> He was initially aligned with the Progressive Citizens' Party, before becoming a member of the Christian-Social People's Party from 1920, then briefly the Liechtenstein Homeland Service, and finally the Patriotic Union when the two parties merged in 1936.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=23 April 1920 |title=Liechtenstein. Die Volkspartei-Versammlung in Triesen |language=de |pages=1 |work=Oberrheinische Nachrichten |url=https://www.eliechtensteinensia.li/viewer/image/000476558_1920/129/LOG_0036/ |access-date=23 September 2023}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2007 |title=Parties in Liechtenstein 1921-1943 |url=https://www.fuerstundvolk.li/fuv/fuv.do?site=421174076f221000996d610c1957690b |access-date=14 May 2023 |website=Prince and People: Liechtenstein Civics |language=de}}</ref> He also headed the Intellectual Property Office and was an assistant district attorney from 1920 to 1945. As chairman of the livestock processing commission, he made a contribution to the eradication of bovine tuberculosis.<ref name=":0" />
After the resignation of Josef Hoop in 1945, Nigg was appointed the Deputy Prime Minister of Liechtenstein, under the government of Alexander Frick.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |date=4 September 1945 |title=Liechtenstein Gets New Chief |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/09/04/archives/liechtenstein-gets-new-chief.html |access-date=16 May 2023 |website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{Cite web |title=Mitglieder der Regierung des Fürstentums Liechtenstein 1862–2021 |url=https://www.regierung.li/regierungsmitglieder/mitglieder |website=www.regierung.li |access-date=2023-09-23 |archive-date=2023-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728021132/https://www.regierung.li/regierungsmitglieder/mitglieder |url-status=dead }}</ref> From 1942 to 1957 he was a librarian and from 1955 to 1957 secretary of the {{ill|Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein|de|Historischer Verein für das Fürstentum Liechtenstein}}. He was also an honorary member of the Harmoniemusik Vaduz.<ref name=":0" />thumb|The family grave in 2024. Nigg married Rosa Burtscher (5 May 1893 – 18 July 1987) on 9 September 1918 and they had four children together.<ref name=":0" /> He died of a heart attack on 13 July 1957, aged 63 years old.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 July 1957 |title=Der stellvertretende Regierungschef Ferdinand Nigg ist gestorben |url=https://www.eliechtensteinensia.li/viewer/image/000476564_1957/547/LOG_0082/ |access-date=23 September 2023 |work=Liechtensteiner Volksblatt |pages=1 |language=de}}</ref>
== Honours ==
* {{flag|Liechtenstein}} : Grand Star of the Order of Merit of the Principality of Liechtenstein.<ref name=":0" />
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