Alex Miescher

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Alex Miescher (born April 4, 1968 in Grenchen ) is a former Swiss sports official and former competitive athlete . He was an officer pilot in the Swiss Air Force . From December 2009 to August 2018 he was Secretary General of the Swiss Football Association .

Life

Miescher studied economics at the University of Geneva and the University of Bern . He was also trained as a military pilot and was a commercial military pilot from 1991 to 2009. He is a colonel on the general staff .

From 2005 he was responsible for the FDP for 10 years council his place of residence Biberist , from 2009 parliamentary leader. He ran unsuccessfully in the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2011 .

Miescher is married and has two children.

Sports

Miescher was five times Swiss champion in crawl swimming and participant in swimming world championships and European swimming championships . From 1990 to 1993 he was captain of the Swiss Swimming Federation's national team . He coached the Solothurn Swimming Club from 1999 to 2001. From 2006 to 2009 he was director of the Swiss Swimming Association.

In August 2009 he was appointed Secretary General of the Swiss Football Association on December 1, 2009, succeeding Peter Gilliéron , who was elected President. In this role, Miescher came under fire when he put the abolition of dual citizenship up for debate after the 2018 World Cup . A month later, on August 10, 2018, he resigned.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Ritler: Staying with Alex Miescher. In: Schweizer Soldat No. 7/8 2012, pp. 30–32. doi : 10.5169 / seals-716964 .
  2. ↑ Switzerland makes everyone sit up and take notice. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Alex Miescher ... Retrieved May 16, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b The determined. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Alex Miescher. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 16, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fdp-so.ch  
  6. ↑ Markus Brütsch: Like a floating plane. Portrait in: Rotblau Magazin No. 25 February 2017, pp. 42–45, PDF pp. 22–23.
  7. ↑ Alex Miescher FDP. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  8. ↑ a b Alex Miescher becomes the new SFV General Secretary. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Profile of Alex Miescher. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Miescher succeeds Gilliéron as SFV General Secretary. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Stephan Ramming: Abolition of dual citizenship: Dangerous crazy idea at the wrong time . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 6, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on July 16, 2018]).
  12. ↑ SFV General Secretary Alex Miescher resigns. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from August 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Miescher, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss athlete, pilot and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH 4th April 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Grenchen