Key legal question
Whether a husband may independently renounce Swiss citizenship for his wife and minor children.
Extracted holding
No. The Federal Act of 3 July 1876 does not recognize a separate discharge of the wife and minor children from Swiss citizenship through the husband alone.
Extracted reasoning
Article 8 para. 3 presupposes that the family head himself requests discharge and meets the conditions of Article 6; the law contains no independent discharge for the wife and minor children. Such a result would at most require recognition by the foreign state and a separate declaration by the wife.