Albert Mossdorf

Albert Mossdorf (born July 29, 1911 in Niederweningen ; † February 20, 2001 Bülach ) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ).

biography

Mossdorf grew up in a family of railway workers, did a commercial apprenticeship and graduated from evening high school. He worked as an authorized signatory and sales manager at Maag-Zahnräder und -Maschinen AG.

After active service in the Ebersberg artillery factory in 1939 , he entered politics. His political activities in the home community of Bülach led him to the Zurich Cantonal Council , to which he was a member from 1951 to 1964, then to the National Council from 1963 to 1967 and finally to the Government Council of the Canton of Zurich from 1967 to 1979 . In the government council, he initially headed the police and military departments, and from 1971 the finance department. In the years of office 1971/1972 and 1976/1978 he was President of the Government Council of the Canton of Zurich.

During Mossdorf's term of office, specific measures were taken to cope with growing road traffic, the expansion of civil protection and acts of terrorism such as the attack on an El-Al plane. In terms of financial policy, the struggle with slowing growth, the struggle with the impending overindebtedness of the public sector, but also the development of a new accounting model, which represented a milestone on the way to harmonization in public accounting, are worth mentioning.

In his closer home he held public offices early on. He was a co-founder of the Zürcher Unterland canton school, initiated the SBB double lane Zurich-Bülach and the electrification of the Wehntall line.

As a member of the Young Liberal Movement, he fought against national renewal movements ( front movement ) during the 1930s . His work against exclusion and racism as well as his support for disadvantaged and socially disadvantaged people shaped his work. He was on the board of the Society for Minorities in Switzerland , President of the Society Switzerland-Israel , promoted social housing and was President of the Social Housing Cooperative and President of the Association for the Renewal of the Federal Community . From 1979 to 1989 he was the central president of the Swiss Charitable Society . Mossdorf was married and had three children.

Publications

• On the Road on Freedom Paths (1991), autobiographical novel
• No home without community (1998), warning letter

Web links

• Katja Hürlimann: Mossdorf, Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Portrait and short biography (PDF; 124 kB)