Alphonse Roggo

Alphonse Roggo

Alphonse Roggo (born June 8, 1898 in Düdingen , † June 29, 1980 in Tafers ) was a Swiss politician (conservative) and State Councilor of the canton of Friborg .

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Roggo, Catholic by nature, comes from Düdingen and Freiburg. His parents were Joseph Roggo, farmer, and Anna-Maria geb. Clerc. He married Maria Henzen.

After attending primary school in Düdingen, Roggo studied at the Hauterive teacher training college and at the University of Freiburg (secondary school teacher diploma ). In 1920/21 he worked in an import-export company in Genoa . From 1922 to 1931 he was a teacher at the secondary school in Tafers, from 1931 to 1936 director of the trade museum, from 1936 to 1941 head of the cantonal office for vocational training and from 1941 to 1951 department head of the department for industry, trade and commerce. In this context he was responsible for the factory inspectorate, the cantonal office for vocational training, the trade office and the trade museum, the war economy and the compensation funds. From 1951 to 1956 he was senior bailiff of the Sense District . In 1955 he ran for the National Council .

He was involved in numerous commercial and agricultural organizations and headed the cantonal foundation “For the Age” and the Conservative People's Party in Deutschfreiburg.

In 1956 he was elected to the State Council and took over the health and police direction and after Paul Torche's resignation temporarily the direction of the interior, agriculture, industry and trade until he retired from government at the end of 1966. In 1963 he was President of the State Council.

During his term of office, the expansion of the Marsens Psychiatric Hospital and the Humilimont Sanatorium, the construction of the preventorium in Les Sciernes d'Albeuve and the start of construction of the new cantonal hospital took place . In the Grand Council he advocated the law on supplementary benefits to the AHV / IV (1965), the law to combat alcoholism (1965), the law on building fire insurance (1965) and the law on the status of the pension fund of the canton of Friborg ( 1965) a. He had to justify the first credit overruns for the Bertigny Cantonal Hospital (48.9 million francs in 1965 against 25.5 million that were earmarked in 1958), as the number of beds had meanwhile increased from 300 to 500. His successors Paul Genoud and Denis Clerc were confronted with further transgressions. In addition, Roggo was responsible for the Household Insurance Act (1966).

Alfons Roggo was the first German- Friborg citizen to take a seat on the Council of States on February 3, 1960 as the successor to Jean Bourgknecht , who was elected to the Federal Council . He defeated the liberal Louis Dupraz by 70 votes against 38 . He exercised his mandate until February 1968.

literature

• Georges Andrey , John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand et Nicolas Gex: The Freiburg Council of State: 1848–2011. History, organization, members . Editions La Sarine, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-2-88355-153-4 .

Web links

• Short vita in the Deutschfreiburger Heimatkundeverein