Arnold Koller

Arnold Koller (born August 29, 1933 in Appenzell or St. Gallen ; legal resident in Gossau SG and Oberbüren ) is a Swiss legal scholar and politician ( CVP ). He was a member of the Federal Council from 1987 to 1999 .

Life

Arnold Koller studied at the University of St. Gallen economics and graduated in 1957 with a licentiate from. He studied law at the University of Freiburg , graduated in 1959 and was admitted to the bar in Appenzell Innerrhoden in 1960 . In 1966 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . In 1971 and 1972 he completed his education with studies at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1972 he became associate professor and in 1980 full professor for European and international economic and social law at the University of St. Gallen.

politics

Federal Councilor Koller (3rd from right) at a media conference on the complete revision of the Federal Constitution (1995)

From 1971 to 1986 Koller was a member of the National Council. In 1980 he chaired the CVP parliamentary group, and in the 1984/85 office year he was President of the National Council . At the same time, he presided over the Innerrhoder Cantonal Court from 1973 to 1986 .

He was elected to the Federal Council on December 10, 1986. From 1987 to 1989 he was the head of the Federal Military Department (EMD) and from 1989 to 1999 the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP). He was Federal President in 1990 and 1997. On March 31, 1999, he handed over his office to his successor, Ruth Metzler-Arnold , after he had announced his resignation on January 13.

Koller is married and has two children. In the Swiss Army he was a lieutenant colonel in the general staff .

Publications

From the workshop of a Federal Council. Stämpfli, Bern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7272-1419-6 ( About the book )
Speech on August 1, 1997 ( Memento from February 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

literature

Arnold Koller in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Hermann Bischofberger: Koller, Arnold. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Arnold Koller on the FDJP website
Claudia Schoch: Former Federal Councilor Arnold Koller is eighty. Statesman even without office. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of August 27, 2013
Andri Rostetter: Former Federal Councilor Arnold Koller: "The EU sits on the longer lever" , In: Luzerner Zeitung of August 28, 2018
Literature by and about Arnold Koller in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Arnold Koller. (No longer available online.) Federal Department of Justice and Police FDJP, archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on May 6, 2016 .
↑ Historical Lexicon of Switzerland, see above.

predecessor	Office	Successor
Kurt Furgler	Member of the Swiss Federal Council 1987–1999	Ruth Metzler-Arnold

personal data
SURNAME	Koller, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss politician (CVP)
DATE OF BIRTH	August 29, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	St. Gallen

[1] Arnold Koller. (No longer available online.) Federal Department of Justice and Police FDJP, archived from the original on March 25, 2016 ; accessed on May 6, 2016 .

[2] Historical Lexicon of Switzerland, see above.