Anton Muheim

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Anton Muheim (born June 13, 1916 in Lucerne ; † May 11, 2016 ; from Lucerne and Flüelen ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ). He was a member of the government of the Canton of Lucerne , member of the National Council and President of the National Council .

Life

Muheim was born as the son of a ship controller, SUVA official and politician. He married the secondary school teacher Elsa Grossmann. Muheim completed a law and economics studies at the Universities of Zurich and Bern , then his doctorate to Dr. nat. oec. and completed a legal internship with National Councilor Eduard Arnold . From 1942 to 1959 he ran his own law firm .

Muheim was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland and was elected to the City Council of Lucerne in 1943 , where he had a seat until 1959. He was also President of the Lucerne section of the VPOD from 1949 to 1959 . In 1959 Muheim was elected to the government council of the Canton of Lucerne and became head of the Justice Department. In the Lucerne government he was the first member of the SP and with his election established a tradition of the SP's participation in government in the canton of Lucerne, which was only broken in 2015 after the resignation of Yvonne Schärli and the SP's departure from the government. Muheim resigned as a government councilor in 1978. He was also a member of the National Council for the canton of Lucerne from 1963 to 1983 , which he presided over in the 1973/74 year of office. From 1978 to 1984 he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe , 1980 to 1981 as its Vice-President. From 1976 to 1987 Muheim was a member of the central board of Pro Infirmis and in 1984 co-founded the Lake Lucerne Landscape Protection Association , which he chaired until 1993.

Anton Muheim lived in Lucerne.

family

Many well-known people come from the Muheim family . She was one of the leading Uri families in the Ancien Régime . She also maintained her influence in the Swiss federal state , and several Uri mayors and federal parliamentarians emerged from the family . Several close family members of Muheim were also active in politics. Muheim's cousin Franz Muheim (1923–2009) was, among other things, for the CVP District Administrator of the Canton of Uri , 1971–1987 Uri Council of States and 1982 Federal Council candidate . The sister of Anton Muheim's wife Elsa, Annemarie Meier-Grossmann, married Kaspar Meier (1917-1998), who worked as a politician (FDP) in the Lucerne Grand Council and from 1971 to 1983 in the National Council.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Markus Trüeb: Muheim, Anton. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Anton Muheim on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals )
  3. ^ Hans Stadler: Muheim. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  4. ^ Hans Stadler: Muheim, Franz. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
  5. ^ Markus Trüeb: Meier, Kaspar. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Muheim, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 2016