Andreas Glarner

Andreas Glarner (2015)

Andreas Alfred Glarner (born October 9, 1962 in Glarus ; legal domicile in Diesbach GL ) is a Swiss entrepreneur and politician ( SVP ) who is politicized on the far right of the political spectrum in Switzerland and is also counted on the right wing of his party.

politics

career

Glarner was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau in 2001, where he chaired the SVP parliamentary group from 2005 to 2015. From 1998 to September 24, 2017 he was a member of the municipal council ( executive ) of Oberwil-Lieli , from 2006 as a municipal mayor . His successor was the non-party Ilias Läber. In addition, he has been president of the SVP local party Bremgarten since March 2015. In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2015 , he was elected to the National Council as a representative of the SVP . In January 2020 he was elected President of SVP Aargau, succeeding National Councilor Thomas Burgherr . He is also president of the civil protection organization (ZSO) Mutschellen.

Controversy

He became known to a wider public through his controversial poster campaigns for Aarau or Ankara and Baden or Baghdad during the 2007 National Council elections . The campaign prompted two private individuals to charge Glarus with racial discrimination . The public prosecutor dropped the case because there was no violation of the law. The higher court rejected the complaint of the two plaintiffs, whereupon they took the case to the federal court . This confirmed the setting as legal. In the 2015 election campaign, Glarner provoked with the posters head up instead of head down and you are among us .

In 2013, the story of a young man in the neighboring community of Berikon made headlines who refused to take a job for years and instead received social assistance. The community finally refused to continue social assistance, but was forced by the federal court to pay it at least in part. Glarner then offered a bonus of CHF 1,000 for naming the name, which was not allowed to be published due to data protection. The name was given to him immediately without paying the CHF 1,000. Glarner then offered the young man a job as a warehouse clerk, caretaker or courier driver and threatened to make his name public if he refused the offer. The man turned down the offers, claimed to have started a job as a web designer, and reported Glarner for coercion . The public prosecutor's office in Muri-Bremgarten rejected this on the grounds that the welfare recipient had already been present in the media before Glarner was called and had even commented on the case in interviews. In these circumstances, coercion was clearly not fulfilled. Finally, the man claimed to have lost another job, as a telephone operator, because of the media hype.

The rich municipality of Oberwil-Lieli, with 2200 inhabitants, would have to accept eight (since 2016 ten) asylum seekers according to a cantonal distribution formula. She resisted and accepted a so-called replacement payment of CHF 3,650 for each asylum seeker who was not accepted. After the canton of Aargau raised the payment for 2016 to CHF 40,150, the municipal assembly on November 27, 2015, at the request of a 24-year-old student, surprisingly voted against budgeting an expense of CHF 290,000 for this purpose. On the other hand, a voter lodged a complaint, which was rejected by the canton, whereupon he referred it to the administrative court . This decided at the beginning of March 2016 that the application to the community meeting was legal. In the meantime, a referendum against the resolution of the community assembly was launched by a committee headed by the same voter . In the referendum vote of May 1, 2016, the voters narrowly rejected the 2016 municipal budget. The municipal council had to submit a new budget for 2016 to the municipal assembly on June 10, 2016. At this meeting, the citizens clearly agreed to the replacement tax of CHF 290,000 and thus the possibility of buying themselves free from accepting refugees. However, the municipal assembly also decided to ask the municipal council to propose solutions at the next municipal assembly in November 2016 that take into account the attitude of residents who are positive about accepting refugees. Glarner suggested three approaches: instead of paying a replacement tax to the canton, paying a lower contribution to a municipality that has taken in more refugees than it ought to, financial support from a local aid organization and taking in a Syrian family. The suggestions were implemented. In August 2016, the Oberwil-Lieli community merged with Rudolfstetten-Friedlisberg to form an asylum association. Five of the refugees assigned to Oberwil-Lieli live in Rudolfstetten-Friedlisberg, with Oberwil-Lieli assuming the costs. The residents of the municipality of Oberwil-Lieli donated more than CHF 400,000 to the Schwizerchrüz campaign for direct help for Syrian refugees on site, in Greece and Turkey. In February 2017, a Syrian family of four also moved into Oberwil-Lieli.

After the community meeting in November 2015, the student had raised allegations in the Aargauer Zeitung and in the Tages-Anzeiger that the mayor “hätschele” did not always take it that carefully when it came to complying with the regulations, or that the local council met all the wealthy when it came to building permits Wishes. The municipal council asked them to substantiate their statements within a week with at least three concrete examples or to revoke them immediately and publicly. Otherwise, Glarner announced when asked by the Aargauer Zeitung that the student would have to expect an advertisement. The student's lawyer claimed to have evidence, and the town council invited her to a debate. The student insisted on presenting the evidence to the court in the event of a complaint, but not disclosing it at this point. The local council then declined to report and stated in a press release that it considered the matter to be settled.

After the vote in the community meeting in November 2015, it became known that Glarner, together with the local SVP, had been behind a leaflet with the sender “Bürgerliche Arbeiter Oberwil-Lieli”, which was attached to the community's official publication, Wochenfalter , on the day of the vote was - although he had previously said that he would not intervene in the vote on this budget item. Glarner admitted the mistake and said that today he would name the local SVP as the sender. However, it was a decision by the party because non-SVP members also took part in the meeting at which the leaflet was approved.

In September 2015, the Norddeutsche Rundfunk and the ARD morning magazine and in December 2015 again the ARD morning magazine broadcast a report on the situation in Oberwil-Lieli. The events in Oberwil-Lieli are also shown in the documentary Welcome to Switzerland (2017) by Sabine Gisiger , in which Andreas Glarner appears as the protagonist.

In 2009, Glarner joined the right-wing populist, Islamophobic citizens' movement pro Köln , which is suspected of being right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

After a school recommended that students not take any pork to the graduation ceremony in the summer of 2018 due to the ban on pork for Muslims, Glarner published a list of a school class from Dübendorf on Facebook without permission , on which only one student had a Swiss name. He commented on this by saying that the poor schoolgirl was probably not allowed to bring a Cervelat and asked the Swiss to wake up. The publication was criticized both in the media and by the school board. It is not known where Glarner got the list.

After a primary school teacher wrote a letter to parents in the summer of 2019 that Muslim children could stay at home during the celebration of the breaking of the fast , Glarner published the teacher's private telephone number and email address on Facebook with the advice that she should be called and told, what you think of it. Pointing out that the teacher was only communicating a rule that was valid throughout the Canton of Zurich to the parents , countered Glarner, the teacher should have put up "passive resistance". It was only after pressure from the Zurich School and Sports Department that he removed the phone number and email address from his Facebook post.

In July 2020, Glarner showed a picture of a newspaper clipping on Facebook in which a local ALDI branch congratulated its graduates by name and drew attention to the foreign-sounding names. He was criticized for this action from various sides, including from his party colleague Roger Köppel . ALDI itself responded with an advertisement on Glarner's post. Glarner himself justified the action on the Nau news portal by saying that he wanted to show that there are fewer and fewer Swiss people in Switzerland and that people are thus becoming a stranger in their own country.

job

Glarner completed an apprenticeship as a ventilation plumber and then continued his education in industrial engineering and management. In 1984 he joined Rohner Ventilationsspenglerei AG in Urdorf and was its operations manager from 1987. In mid-1991 he left the company and founded his own company in Oberwil-Lieli, the sole proprietorship Airproduct Andreas Glarner. In 2006 he sold the company (now Airproduct AG) and became a millionaire at the age of 45. Since 2011 he has been selling rollators, wheelchairs, crutches and other aids with his new company, Careproduct AG, which he had founded the year before. At the end of 2017 he sold the company to Galenica .

In 1995/1996 there was a court case in which his former employer Rohner accused him of fraud, misappropriation and disloyal management. Glarner was accused of having invoiced an order that Rohner had carried out for his new company, while Glarner complained that this was the agreed, but not written, compensation for overtime worked during the induction of his non-industry successor. Glarner was acquitted on the points of fraud and deprivation of property, but conditionally sentenced to 20 days in prison for unfaithful management.

Private

Glarner's father Hans Rudolf was a carpenter, his mother a chemical laboratory technician. Father and grandfather were members of the SP , the grandfather was city ​​council ( executive ) of Bremgarten AG . The parents divorced when he was thirteen years old. Then the mother and the children moved from Netstal to Dietikon in Zurich's Limmat Valley . Glarner attended secondary school there .

He is a member of various boards of directors, including as President of the trading company Consira AG. He is President of the Aargau Patriotic Association and sifa - Security for All.

Andreas Glarner lives separately from his wife, is the father of two daughters and has lived in Oberwil-Lieli since 1994, with his partner and two of their three children since 2015.

Web links

• Website by Andreas Glarner
• Andreas Glarner on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Andreas Glarner on the website of the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau
• Vested interests of Andreas Glarner on lobbywatch.ch
• Asylum alarmist. Video portrait in: Rundschau from April 20, 2016 (9 min)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Far left and far right: Feri and Glarner are the most extreme Aargau politicians in Bern. In: Aargauer Zeitung . 11th September 2016.
2. ^ SVP parliamentary group newly constituted. In: Aargauer Zeitung. April 22, 2009.
3. ^ Gallati for Glarus: Aargauer SVP elects new parliamentary group president. In: Aargauer Zeitung. October 27, 2015.
4. ↑ Christian Breitschmid: Ilias Läber follows Andreas Glarner - “Spinach green” Roger Gündel without a chance. In: Aargauer Zeitung. 25th September 2017.
5. ↑ Dominic Kobelt: The board - your contact. SVP Bremgarten.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Nadine Jürgensen: SVP National Councilor Andreas Glarner. "I am hated or loved". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . November 9, 2015.
7. ↑ Andreas Glarner is the new party president: "SVP Aargau is a restructuring case, it should become a lighthouse", January 15, 2020
8. ^ The dispute over the Aargauer SVP election poster continues. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. February 19, 2008.
9. ↑ SVP politician publishes criminal judgment. ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: St. Galler Tagblatt . July 30, 2015.
10. ↑ Aline Wüst: Social welfare recipients flashes with a complaint against SVP Grand Councilor Andreas Glarner. In: Aargauer Zeitung. August 11, 2013.
11. ^ Lorenz Hanselmann: Well-known social worker is unemployed again. In: 20 minutes . 13th June 2013.
12. ↑ Andrea Weibel: 126 Aargau municipalities will have to accept more asylum seekers in 2016. In: Aargauer Zeitung. 3rd December 2015.
13. ↑ Oberwil-Lieli doesn't want any asylum seekers. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. May 1, 2016.
14. ↑ Marcel Bühlmann: Provisional end of the asylum dispute: Oberwil-Lieli says yes to ransom. In: Aargauer Zeitung. June 11, 2016.
15. ↑ Jürg Krebs: Oberwil-Lieli sends refugees to the neighboring community and bypasses the asylum penalty. In: Aargauer Zeitung. August 25, 2016.
16. ↑ Rolf Cavalli: In Glarner community resistance is forming: A club wants a new village politics. In: watson . 16th February 2017.
17. ↑ Laly Zanchi: "Mr. Glarner gave us a warm welcome". In: 20 minutes . 22nd February 2017.
18. ↑ Toni Widmer: Johanna Gündel - that is the student SVP-Glarner stands up to. In: Aargauer Zeitung. November 30, 2015.
19. ↑ Constantin Seibt : The heart of Oberwil-Lieli. In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 30, 2015.
20. ↑ Fabian Hägler: SVP-Glarner threatens student Gündel with complaint - by registered mail. In: Aargauer Zeitung. December 8, 2015.
21. ↑ Erika Obrist: Announced move on. In: Bremgarter Bezirks-Anzeiger. 22nd January 2016.
22. ^ Community news . Discussion with Johanna Gündel. ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Oberwil-Lieli municipality, January 22, 2016, p. 3 (PDF; 20 kB). 
23. ↑ Fabian Hägler: asylum dispute: Andreas Glarner let print anonymous leaflet. In: Aargauer Zeitung. December 11, 2015.
24. ↑ Fabian Hägler: Andreas Glarner: "Today I would write SVP on the leaflet". In: Aargauer Zeitung. December 16, 2015.
25. ^ Daniel Hechler: Switzerland: Refugees? No thanks ( memento from September 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Weltbilder , NDR's foreign magazine . 15th September 2015.
26. ↑ Matthias Ebert: Now refugees in Oberwil-Lieli. In: ARD morning magazine . 17th December 2015.
27. ↑ Manuel Gamma: Oberwil-Lieli becomes cinema material In: srf. October 16, 2018.
28. ↑ Urs Moser: Glarner does not see an extremist problem. In: Aargauer Zeitung. December 11, 2009; Cologne: Congratulations to the Swiss People's Party! ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Citizens' movement for Germany . October 9, 2015. 
29. ↑ 20min.ch: “School doesn't want pork at graduation ceremony” . July 5, 2018, accessed July 11, 2018.
30. ↑ 20min.ch: “The parents could sue against Glarus” . July 9, 2018, accessed July 11, 2018.
31. ↑ tagesanzeiger.ch: "Andreas Glarner abuses class list - school defends itself" . July 10, 2018. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
32. ↑ tagesanzeiger.ch: "SVP-Glarner lets phones ring at the Zürcher Schule Sturm" . June 4, 2019. Retrieved June 5, 2019.
33. ^ 20min.ch: "Andreas Glarner denounces Aldi apprenticeship graduates" . July 22, 2020. Accessed July 23, 2020.
34. ↑ 20min.ch: "Aldi counters Glarner with an advertisement - he thinks the campaign is" very funny "" . July 22, 2020. Accessed July 23, 2020.
35. ↑ nau.ch: "Andreas Glarner (SVP) denounces foreign apprentices to" . 20th of July. Retrieved June 5, 2019.
36. ^ Company sold: Andreas Glarner leaves the rollator business. In: Aargauer Zeitung. December 29, 2017.
37. ^ Supreme Court of the Canton of Aargau. 1. Criminal Chamber. Meeting on November 26, 1996. In: Website of Andreas Glarner ( Unschön - but fact ; PDF; 1.3 MB).
38. ↑ Board of Directors. In: website of sifa - security for everyone.