André Daguet

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André Daguet

André Daguet (born June 1, 1947 in Lausanne , † April 30, 2015 in Bern , legal resident in Friborg in Üechtland ) was a Swiss trade unionist and politician ( SP ).

education and profession

André Daguet studied sociology and political science at the University of Bern and then became an assistant at Richard Bäumlin's seminar for public law at the University of Bern . From 1980 to 1986 he was central secretary of the Swiss section of Amnesty International . In 1970 he was one of the founders of this section.

From November 1986 to December 1996 he was General Secretary of the SP Switzerland, and was a full-time trade unionist until his retirement in July 2009. From 1996 to 2008 he was a member of the management of the Smuv trade union and its successor organization Unia . He was one of the master builders of the merger of the two unions GBI and Smuv, the largest organizational project of the Swiss trade union movement. As delegate of the board of directors of the publishing company work AG , he was co-editor of the union newspaper work .

National Council

From the 2003 elections until his resignation in 2011, Daguet was a member of the National Council . As a council member, he was a member of the business audit commission and the commission for legal issues as well as president of the commission for pardons and conflicts of jurisdiction and the rehabilitation commission. He was committed to environmental protection issues , a strong welfare state and social liberalization. He was very critical of economic liberalization efforts , a restrictive financial policy, demands for more law and order and a restrictive migration policy.

Daguet suffered a cardiac arrest in May 2010 , but was successfully resuscitated. In February 2011, he announced his resignation on May 30, 2011. He died on April 30, 2015 in Bern at the age of 67 from complications from the nervous disease ALS .

Web links

Commons : André Daguet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries
  2. ^ SP Switzerland mourns André Daguet. Communication from the SP dated May 1, 2015 (accessed on May 3, 2015).
  3. ↑ sda / Der Bund, July 6, 2009
  4. ↑ Simmentaler Zeitung, September 6, 2007
  5. ^ SGB ​​President Paul Rechsteiner , May 13, 2015
  6. ^ National Councilor André Daguet resigns in: Tages-Anzeiger of February 22, 2011
  7. ↑ André Daguet stops in May in: Blick.ch from February 22, 2011
  8. ^ SP Switzerland mourns André Daguet. Communication from the SP dated May 1, 2015 (accessed on May 3, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Daguet, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2015
Place of death Bern