Albin Heimann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Albin Heimann

Albin Melchior Heimann (born March 16, 1914 in Zurich ; † December 19, 2015 in Kilchberg ZH ; resident in Hasliberg , Zurich and Kilchberg) was a Swiss entrepreneur and politician of the National Ring of Independents (LdU).

biography

Family and career

The reformed baptized, was born in Zurich Albin Heimann, son of master weaver Melchior Heimann, completed a after his compulsory school business education . Heimann, subsequently employed in his learned profession, founded the international real estate company Prohaus AG in 1944, from which he retired as the owner of the company in 2006 due to age. From 1958 to 1976 he was an elected member of the administrative delegation of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives (MGB); the industrial operations of the MGB were subordinate to him. In the Swiss Army he served with the rank of colonel in the infantry . Heimann was married to Elsa, born in 2008, who was born in Räpsch.

Political functions

Albin Heimann, who joined the Landesring der Independentigen (LdU), represented his party in 1942 and from 1951 to 1963 in the Zurich Cantonal Council . In his last year in office he was President. In 1967 he was elected to the Council of States , to which he was a member until 1979, during his last term of office as a non-party . In his role as President of Migrol , Heimann launched a first attempt to sell unleaded petrol , which could not yet be sold without the relevant state regulations. Heimann, an avowed supporter of the free market economy with social responsibility, has repeatedly spoken out in favor of a partial dismantling of state regulations and subsidies in agriculture.

Publications

  • Agriculture: Doing business instead of subsidizing. Ex Libris publishing house, Zurich 1968.
  • Mountain farming. Doing business instead of subsidizing. Design instead of administration. Ex Libris publisher, Zurich 1974.
  • Final report of the study commission for the revision of sales taxation: dated January 19, 1983 to the Federal Department of Finance. Federal Office for Printing and Materials, Bern 1983.

literature

  • Werner Baumann, Peter Moser: Farmers in the Industrial State: Agricultural Policy Concepts and Peasant Movements in Switzerland 1918–1968. Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-280-02812-4 , p. 506.
  • Eva Manz: Back then everything was different in Bern. In: Tages-Anzeiger , March 15, 2009.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Heimann, Albin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heiman, Albin Melchior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss entrepreneurs and politicians of the National Ring of Independents (LdU)
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 19th December 2015
Place of death Kilchberg ZH