Filippo Leutenegger

Filippo Leutenegger (2013)

Filippo Franz Saverio Leutenegger (born November 25, 1952 in Rome ; resident in Zurich and Thundorf TG ) is a Swiss journalist . Since 2002 he has been involved as a politician ( FDP ). He was a member of the National Council from 2003 to 2014 and has been a Zurich City Councilor since 2014 .

He is married to the TV journalist Michèle Sauvain and lives with their three children and two sons from their first marriage in Zurich.

Professional background

Filippo Leutenegger spent his childhood and youth in Rome, where his father worked for the UN . Back in Switzerland, he came in 1965 when his parents him to boarding the convent schools Disentis and Altdorf sent, where he in 1972 with the Matura Type A has been completed.

As a student at the University of Zurich , he was committed to environmental issues. In 1979/80 he founded the weekly newspaper (WOZ) in Zurich with other student representatives .

After completing his degree in economics and law , from 1980 Leutenegger worked as a business economist at the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt in Zurich.

In 1981 he started working as a business editor for the consumer show Kassensturz from SF DRS . From 1984 to 1989 he was Italy and Ticino correspondent for Swiss television , then until 1990 he was the presenter of the business program Netto . In 1993, Leutenegger became editor-in-chief of the discussion show Friday Round and in the same year founded the political talk show Arena , which under his leadership became the center of public political debate in Switzerland and more than doubled its market share.

In 1998 Leutenegger was appointed editor-in-chief of Swiss television. Because of different opinions with television director Peter Schellenberg , he left television in 2002. A few days later he was appointed managing director of the heavily loss-making media company Jean Frey AG , which he restructured within a year and which was sold to Axel Springer AG at a large profit at the end of 2006 .

In 2000/2001 he was a member of the board of directors of the Swiss Dispatch Agency .

In December 2006 he founded a magazine publisher, neue-ideen.ch AG, which runs the magazine neue-ideen. The magazine for the home publishes.

He is also a founding member of the Swiss Orthographic Conference , President of the Board of Directors of the Association for Media Freedom . Together with his wife he founded several day nurseries and after-school care centers in the city of Zurich.

From 2011 to 2014, Leutenegger was Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Basler Zeitung , which was commissioned to reorganize the company with the publishing house and printing company. From 2012 to 2014 Leutenegger was President of the trade association of Swiss cable TV companies Swisscable .

Political career

In autumn 2002, Leutenegger announced his candidacy for the National Council. In the elections in October 2003 he was elected to parliament with the slogan “Less State, More Switzerland” on the list of the Free Democratic Party with the third best result.

In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2007 and in the elections on October 23, 2011 , he was re-elected to the National Council. He sat in the local commission for the environment, spatial planning and energy (UREK-NR) and was a member of the management and the parliamentary committee of the FDP Switzerland. In 2014 he ran for the city of Zurich as mayor and as a member of the nine-member city government, the city council. In the election to the city council, he was defeated by the incumbent Corine Mauch (SP) in the first ballot. On the other hand, he was elected to the city council in eighth place. He took over the civil engineering and waste disposal department from Ruth Genner , the Greens who were not running again . In doing so, he brought back the second seat on the city council for the FDP at the expense of the Greens, which had been lost to Richard Wolff from the alternative list in a by-election in 2013 .

Web links

Commons : Filippo Leutenegger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Filippo Leutenegger on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Filippo Leutenegger on the website of the Civil Engineering and Waste Management Department
• Filippo Leutenegger's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} City Council resolutions of January 25, 2017. In: Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich of February 1, 2017, p. 37.
2. ↑ Our board of directors. (No longer available online.) Media freedom campaign, archived from the original on October 19, 2011 ; Retrieved December 25, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ fxs./sda: “Basler Zeitung” goes to Tito Tettamanti. NZZ Online, November 14, 2011, accessed December 25, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Swisscable: Hajo Leutenegger is followed by Filippo Leutenegger. ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: presseportal.ch of March 16, 2012 
5. ^ [1] Website of the City of Zurich