Edouard Gremaud

Edouard Gremaud

Édouard Gremaud (born November 13, 1925 in Vuadens , † October 19, 1992 in Friborg ) was a Swiss politician and State Councilor of the canton of Friborg .

Life

Édouard Gremaud was the son of Joseph-Arsène, Müller and Grand Councilor, and Marthe Monique geb. Novels. He married Cécile Kuhn.

After commercial training, Gremaud worked in agricultural professional organizations (director of the Chamber of Agriculture, President of the Association of Western Switzerland Agricultural Associations) and as an assistant to the department head in the Agriculture Department of the Canton of Friborg (1952–1955). From 1963 to 1981 he managed the Autonomous Agricultural Amortization Fund. As CVP - Grossrat (1966–1981), he submitted a motion in 1979 calling for a genuine, twelve-point family aid policy (allowances, grants, social security contributions, social deductions, reasonable wages, remuneration for apprentices and students, legal protection for mothers , Family help, support for expectant mothers in need, protection against danger, solidarity contribution). In 1981, when the 500th anniversary of Friborg's entry into the Swiss Confederation was celebrated, he was President of the Grand Council and chaired the commemoration of the cantonal parliament .

In 1971 for the first time as a candidate for the State Council, Édouard Gremaud renounced his candidacy in order to secure the election of the allied GBG representative Joseph Cottet , who was on the CVP list but only ended up in sixth place in the first ballot. However, it received 19,000 votes (32%). In 1981 he was elected to the State Council and took over the economics, transport and energy directorate, which he headed for two terms until 1991. In 1986 and 1991 he was President of the State Council. His policy continued those of his predecessors Paul Torche and Pierre Dreyer and was supported by a good economic situation.

Édouard Gremaud submitted to the Grand Council a law on the promotion of social housing (1985), which is still in force, and various pieces of legislation that have been completely revised: on energy, the introduction of regional economic development measures (1986), the Vocational training and the introduction of a tenancy court (in response to an initiative of the Freiburg Tenants Association, 1989). He campaigned for further professional training, the promotion of computer-aided manufacturing processes ( CIM ) and the establishment of a CIM center in Friborg in western Switzerland (1991) and initiated the planning of a (now realized) new building for the engineering school and the acquisition of the necessary land. Furthermore, he dealt with the modernization of the transport network. As Energy Director, he presented the State Council's energy policy in detail (June 8, 1989).

After his death on October 19, 1992, the Liberté dedicated an obituary in which they praised him as a robust but sensitive person with unshakable optimism.

literature

• Georges Andrey , Hubertus von Gemmingen (translation): The Freiburg State Council: 1848–2011; History, organization, members . Ed .: John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand, Nicholas Gex. Paulus, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7228-0815-4 .