Albert Schädler

Albert Schädler ( , ; 24 December 1848 – 17 June 1922) was a Liechtenstein politician, physician, and historian. He served as the President of the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 1882 to 1886, and again from 1890 to 1919. A member of the prominent 19th-century Schädler family, he was well regarded as a physician and politician, and influenced the country's politics for decades.

Early life Schädler was born on 24 December 1848 in Vaduz to politician and later President of the Landtag of Liechtenstein Karl Schädler and Katharina Walser.

From 1859 to 1867 he attended secondary school in Feldkirch, Mehrerau and Schwyz. From 1868 to 1871 he studied medicine in the University of Vienna, Zürich and Giessen, where he received a doctorate in medicine. In addition, he studied language in Paris and Lyon in 1879, and in London in 1887, learning to speak French and English. In 1872, the two commissioned a new residential building in Vaduz with rooms for their practice by the Austrian architect Seraphin Pümpel. From 1873 to 1890 he worked as a spa doctor in Bad Ragaz and Pfäfers. For this purpose, he obtained the Federal Concordat Diploma in 1877 and wrote a book focused on the field in 1886.

Political career

From January 1882 to December 1886 and again from January 1890 to December 1919 Schädler was the President of the Landtag of Liechtenstein. He refused to accept his nomination to the 1886 Liechtenstein general election due to work in Bad Ragaz, instead becoming a substitute, and the position was held by Wilhelm Schlegel until he returned in 1890. In 1909 he suggested the introduction of old-age pensions and disability insurance, though he was unsuccessful. Schädler's ideas became the founding ideas of the Progressive Citizens' Party in 1918, though he himself opposed the formation of parties in the Landtag and remained an independent. Schädler, along with the two other Landtag members appointed by Johann II, resigned in protest of the coup. He was succeeded by Fritz Walser. He later became a founder and leader of the German National Movement in Liechtenstein in 1938.

After leaving the Landtag in March 1919, Schädler moved to Munich to live with his daughter, where he died on 17 June 1922. A street in Eschen is named after him.