Baschi Dürr

Sebastian “Baschi” Dürr (born February 7, 1977 in Basel ; authorized to reside there) is a Swiss politician ( FDP. The Liberals ) and has been a member of the government of the Canton of Basel-Stadt since February 1, 2013 .

Life

Dürr was born in Basel as the son of the lawyer, notary and titular professor David Dürr . He attended the Realgymnasium Basel , where he became politically active at a very young age. He studied economics at the University of Basel .

Before his election to the government council, Dürr was the head of the Basel branch of the PR agency Farner. He was involved in campaigns against the rental housing protection initiative, against the city initiative and the counter-proposal, for the outsourcing of the hospital, for the smoking initiative and for the parking space initiative. Dürr advertised the Infrapark for the chemical company Clariant , the Van Gogh exhibition for the major bank UBS , in Schwamendingen he accompanied the roofing of a motorway, and for the pharmaceutical industry he organized the activities of the local "IG Landfill Security". Before that, he worked as a media spokesman for the healthcare company Hoffmann-La Roche in Basel and as a communications consultant. Before that, he worked in the business department of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

politics

Dürr joined the Basel Young Liberals very early on and later made a career for the Liberal Democratic Party of Basel (LDP), where he became Vice President. From 1997 to 2002 he was a member of the inspection team at the Leonhard grammar school . In 2005 he broke with the LDP and moved to the FDP Basel-Stadt , where he quickly became part of the management. In 2003 he was elected to the Grand Council and since 2006 he has chaired the Finance Commission. In 1999, 2007 and 2011 Dürr ran for the National Council , for the first time for the LDP.

After the death of Peter Malama in September 2012, Dürr would actually have been the first to move up to the National Council, but because of his candidacy for the government council and the regional council, he renounced in favor of the Basel FDP president Daniel Stolz .

With the aim of taking over the seat of the outgoing Security Director Hanspeter Gass , Dürr ran for the general government election in 2012. He also stood against the previous Guy Morin as a candidate for the regional council. In the first ballot on October 28, 2012, he achieved the best result of all new candidates with 17,038 votes, but failed to achieve an absolute majority. In the second ballot on November 25, 2012, after the other candidates had withdrawn, he ran against Christian Müller and Damian Heizmann, who were unknown to the general public, and was elected with 17,300 votes. In the election of the district president, Dürr was clearly defeated by the previous Morin in the second ballot. Dürr took office on February 1, 2013 and took over the security department.

Private

Dürr has three sons. He lives in the Wettstein district of Basel .

Web links

• Website of Baschi Dürr
• Baschi Dürr on the website of the government council of the canton of Basel-Stadt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Farner Consulting AG ( Memento of the original from January 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. , Commercial Register of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on June 17, 2013.  
2. ↑ Dürr's Mandate , TagesWoche online, February 3, 2012, accessed on November 25, 2012.
3. ↑ Dürr renounces the National Council - pride moves up , Basler Zeitung online, October 1, 2012
4. ↑ Grand Council and Government Council elections 2012 , Canton Basel-Stadt online, November 4, 2012
5. ↑ Baschi Dürr, Government Councilor: Welcome instead of washing day , Online Reports , February 1, 2013, accessed on February 1, 2013.