Alexander Tschäppät

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Alexander Tschäppät (2011)

Alexander Markus Tschäppät (born April 16, 1952 in Bern ; † May 4, 2018 ; resident in Bözingen ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ). From 1991 to 2003 and from 2011 to 2018 he was a member of the National Council , and from 2005 to 2016 he was Mayor of Bern. In 2018, the Bern city government decided to name a street in Bern in his honor and Reynold Tschäppät : the previously unnamed connection between Papiermühlestrasse and Bollingenstrasse along the Grosse Allmend.

Life

The son of the former mayor of Bern Reynold Tschäppät studied law and became an advocate . From 1982 to 2000 he was president of the court in Bern, and from 1993 to 2005 he was also president of the Swiss Commercial Association . From 1979 to 1991 he was a member of the city ​​council (legislature).

From 2001 Tschäppät was a member of the Bern municipal council (executive); until 2004 he was director of planning, traffic and civil engineering. On November 28, 2004 he was elected the new mayor of Bern with 61.3 percent of the vote (as of January 1, 2005), he distanced Kurt Wasserfallen ( FDP ) by more than 8,000 votes. On November 30, 2008, he was confirmed with 58.7 percent of the vote (19,797) ahead of Barbara Hayoz (FDP, 35.9 percent, 12,116 votes). Tschäppät was elected Mayor of Bern for the third time in a row on November 25, 2012. He won 69.6 percent of the vote (17,628). At the end of the legislative period, he resigned as local councilor and city president at the end of 2016. Alec von Graffenried was his successor .

Alexander Tschäppät (2010)

From 1991 to 2003 he was a member of the National Council for the first time. In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2011 , he missed re-election to the National Council, but was able to slip when Hans Stöckli was elected to the Council of States . In the elections in 2015 he was confirmed.

Tschäppät last lived with his partner in the Schosshalde district . He had two sons. He died in May 2018 at the age of 66 after developing cancer .

Political position

Tschäppät particularly dealt with issues of urban development, culture, education and equal opportunities. "His" projects include the redesigned Bundesplatz , the Bahnhofplatz , which was rebuilt in 2007/2008 , the Westside Center and the Bern-West tram .

criticism

Tschäppät came under fire in 2010 because after a football game at a party on stage he sang along with a dialect trash band in a song directed against the SVP that contained passages like “ Sämi Schmid Motherfucker” and Tschäppät the refrain about “ Christoph Blocher  …” himself supplemented and so publicly defamed his political opponents. Tschäppät subsequently apologized for this. In 2013 Tschäppät was criticized for derogatory jokes about Italians during his guest appearance in the “Comedy Club” in “ Das Zelt ”.

literature

  • Walter Däpp, Bernhard Giger, Jürg Müller-Muralt, Philipp Schori: Tschäppät. One name - 100 years of Bern. With a foreword by Klaus Wowereit . Werd & Weber, Thun 2016, ISBN 978-3-03818-100-2 .

Web links

Commons : Alexander Tschäppät  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bern's former city president Alexander Tschäppät has died . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 5, 2018, accessed May 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ NZZ of July 11, 2018, p. 15
  3. ↑ a b c Alexander Tschäppät - Mayor. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Stadt Bern. Archived from the original on December 22, 2010 ; Retrieved January 6, 2011 .
  4. ^ Minutes of the election of the city president on November 28, 2004. (Excel) In: Stadt Bern. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012 ; Retrieved March 24, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Minutes of the city presidential election of November 30, 2008. (PDF) In: City of Bern. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013 ; Retrieved March 24, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Results of the city presidential election on November 25, 2012. (No longer available online.) In: Stadt Bern. Archived from the original on January 20, 2016 ; accessed on September 1, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Alexander Tschäppät on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals )
  8. ↑ Christian Liechti: Tschäppät apologizes for Blocher song. ( Memento from March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Tages-Anzeiger .ch / Newsnet , March 3, 2010
  9. ^ Daniel Gerny: Embarrassing Mayor. Tschäppät makes fun of Italians. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from December 28, 2013
  10. ^ Adrian Zurbriggen: The Tschäppät biography: from juice roots and Lebemännern. In: Berner Zeitung . April 12, 2016, accessed May 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Tschäppät, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschäppät, Alexander Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 4th May 2018