Armin Meier (politician)

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Armin Meier (born May 3, 1941 in Gamprin ; † March 20, 1999 in Feldkirch ) was a Liechtenstein curative educator and was a member of the state parliament of the Principality of Liechtenstein from 1978 to 1986 .

biography

Armin Meier grew up with two siblings for the first few years of his life in Gamprin, where his parents ran a small farm that was mainly looked after by his mother. His father also worked as a teacher. The family later moved to Mauren . Meier attended the local elementary school. At the age of 12 he moved to the St. Antonius College in Appenzell . In 1961 he made the there Matura . He then studied curative education and school psychology at the University of Freiburg , which he successfully completed in 1968. Meier was the first Liechtensteiner to complete a university education as a curative pedagogue. After completing his studies, he became an assistant in the school psychology service of the Canton of Lucerne .

Soon afterwards he returned to Liechtenstein to devote himself to setting up the curative educational day care center. The corresponding rooms belonged to the Association for Curative Education, founded in 1967 under the presidency of Princess Gina . In May 1969, the renovations and extensions were completed and the first Liechtenstein special school with a special kindergarten was opened. In 1971, Meier introduced curative education to look after disabled children as early as infancy in Liechtenstein. In 1973 he founded a speech therapy service and in 1975 he incorporated a protective workshop . The facility, which was originally designed as a day care center, thus developed into a curative education center (HPZ).

In 1978 Meier ran for the progressive citizens' party in the state elections and won a mandate . As a member of parliament, he mainly dealt with social, health, environmental and cultural issues. From 1982 to 1986 he held the office of Vice President of the State Parliament. He was also involved in numerous commissions in the state and his home community of Mauren and was for the Gamander children's home of the Red Cross . In autumn 1998 he had to stop working for the curative education center for health reasons, having been diagnosed with cancer in the late 1980s. He died on the night of March 20, 1999 in the Feldkirch State Hospital , where he had spent the last weeks of his life. Meier had been married since 1974. The marriage produced a son and a daughter.

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  1. ↑ Martina Sochin: "You little girl hear!": The Higher Daughter Institute St. Elisabeth 1935 - 1994 (2007)
personal data
SURNAME Meier, Armin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liechtenstein curative educator and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Gamprin
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1999
Place of death Feldkirch