Alice Scherrer-Baumann

Alice Scherrer-Baumann (born January 12, 1947 in Lutzenberg ) is an initially non-party , later free-thinking Swiss politician . She was one of the first two government councilors of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden as well as Ms. Landammann .

Life

Alice Baumann, daughter of the police officer Jakob Baumann and Alice née Niederer, a dressmaker and housewife, attended primary school in Lutzenberg, secondary school in Rheineck and, 1964–1968, the Mariaberg Rorschach teacher training college . She worked as a primary school teacher in Grub (AR) until 1974 and made a language study trip to southern England in 1972. 1975–1977 she completed her secondary school teacher training at the secondary school in St. Gallen . She then taught at the girls' secondary school in Blumenau in St. Gallen until 1992. In 1980 she married the teacher Erich Scherrer, with whom she has two children. 1987–1991 Scherrer-Baumann was a lecturer in German and Political Studies at the School for Child Nursing in St. Gallen.

Alice Scherrer-Baumann made her entry into politics in 1987 as a non-party local councilor (school board) in Grub; she held this office until 1994. 1991–1995 she worked on the constitutional commission of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. The municipality of Grub elected her to the Cantonal Council in 1993 . In 1994, Scherrer-Baumann was elected to the cantonal executive together with Marianne Kleiner-Schläpfer . There she headed the Department of Health and Social Affairs and made a name for herself as an intercantonal health politician. In 1995 Scherrer-Baumann joined the canton's Free Democratic Party (FDP), and in 1999 she was a co-founder of the FDP Grub. From 1998 to 2002 she chaired the strategy committee of the Eastern Switzerland project Expo 2027 for the organization of a national exhibition . 1999–2002, Scherrer-Baumann was President of the Swiss Health Directors' Conference, where she chaired the Education Section and acted as a delegate for international affairs. In 2003, when she was elected Mrs. Landammann, she achieved the highest political office in Appenzell Ausserrhoden. She resigned from government office in 2006.

Between 2004 and 2015 she was active at the Institute for Leadership and Human Resource Management at the University of St. Gallen as a lecturer for Hospital Governance and at the Center for Corporate Governance at the University of St. Gallen. Here she participated in the establishment of the Female Board Pool , a network to increase the proportion of women on supervisory boards . After retiring from politics, Scherrer-Baumann took a seat on various boards of directors in the hospital and health sector, including the Baselland Psychiatry (President since 2013), the Hirslanden Clinic in Heiden (2009-2017) and the Concordia health insurance company (2013-2017 Vice-President) ), the Baselland Cantonal Hospital (2012 Vice President), and on the Advisory Board of the Health Department of the Bern University of Applied Sciences .

Web links

• Alessandra Widmer: Alice Scherrer-Baumann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 12, 2019 , accessed August 6, 2019 . With photo

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