# Samuel Brawand
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'''Samuel Brawand''' (born 18 May 1898 in [Grindelwald](/source/Grindelwald), [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland), died 11 July 2001 in Grindelwald) was a [Swiss](/source/Swiss_people) [politician](/source/politician) ([SP](/source/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Switzerland)) and [mountaineer](/source/mountaineer).[{{cite web|url=http://www.be.ch/web/index/kanton/kanton-mediencenter/kanton-mediencenter-mm/kanton-mediencenter-mm-detail.htm?id=2326|title=Alt Regierungsrat Samuel Brawand wird 100 jährig|last=Zölch-Balmer|first=Elisabeth|language=German|date=13 May 1998|accessdate=30 January 2013|publisher=[Kanton Bern](/source/Kanton_Bern)}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.grindelwald.com/local-de.php?page=315&frameset=7|title=Samuel Brawand, cantonal Government Minister from Grindelwald|year=2010|publisher=[Grindelwald](/source/Grindelwald)|accessdate=30 January 2013}}]
==Life==
Brawand, who came from a modest background, lost his father, a [mountain guide](/source/mountain_guide), at the age of four when he was killed by lightning at the top of the [Wetterhorn](/source/Wetterhorn).[{{cite journal|url=http://alpen.sac-cas.ch/html_d/archiv/2001/200109/ad_2001_09_11.pdf|journal=Die Alpen|date=September 2001|title=Samuel Brawand – Einblick in drei Jahrhunderte|last=Kopp|first=Christine|pages=26–27|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050104042252/http://alpen.sac-cas.ch/html_d/archiv/2001/200109/d_26_27.pdf|archivedate=4 January 2005|accessdate=30 January 2013|language=German}}] After Brawand had graduated from the Lehrerseminar (school for teachers) in [Hofwil](/source/Hofwil), he worked as a primary school teacher, a small farmer, rancher and cattle breeder, and very intensively as a guide, especially for climbers from Japan. As a mountaineer, he made a name for himself with the first ascent of the Mittellegigrat (the northeast ridge of the [Eiger](/source/Eiger)) on 10 September 1921, serving as guide for [Maki Yūkō](/source/Maki_Y%C5%ABk%C5%8D) along with fellow guides [Fritz Amatter](/source/Fritz_Amatter) and [Fritz Steuri](/source/Fritz_Steuri).[{{cite book|last1=Harrer|first1=Heinrich|authorlink1=Heinrich Harrer|first2=Kurt|last2=Maix|others=Trans. Hugh Merrick|title=The White Spider: The Story of the North Face of the Eiger|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Htg-t2DUPkgC&pg=PA57|page=57|publisher=[Rupert Hart-Davis](/source/Rupert_Hart-Davis)|year=1959|isbn=0-586-08874-1}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.eigerworld.ch/pdf/text.pdf|title=Erinnerungen an Yuko Maki|trans-title=Memories of Yuko Maki|first=Samuel|last=Brawand|date=July 1989|location=Grindelwald|language=German|pages=5–6|accessdate=2 August 2013|archive-date=22 February 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050222220735/http://www.eigerworld.ch/pdf/text.pdf|url-status=dead}}][{{cite book|title=Mountaineers: Great Tales of Bravery and Conquest|last=Douglas|first=Ed|others=[Smithsonian Institution](/source/Smithsonian_Institution)|location=[New York, New York](/source/New_York%2C_New_York)|publisher=[DK Publishing](/source/DK_Publishing)|year=2011|isbn=978-0-7566-8682-6|page=212}}]
Brawand's first political position was a Gemeinderat ([municipal council](/source/municipal_council)) seat held in Grindelwald. From 1933 to 1935 he belonged to the [Grand Council of Bern](/source/Grand_Council_of_Bern) and from 1935 to 1947 to the [National Council](/source/National_Council_(Switzerland)) (the [second chamber](/source/second_chamber) of the [Federal Assembly](/source/Federal_Assembly_(Switzerland))).