Page "Fridolin Anderwert" Paragraph 4

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 obese bachelor, but also rumors that he was a regular visitor in gay brothels.

Drawn by physical exhaustion and severe depression, Anderwert committed suicide on Christmas Day 1880 on the " Kleine Schanze ", a small park next to the Houses of Parliament.

The only published sentence of his farewell letter states: " They want a victim, they shall have it.