Beatrice Jann

Beatrice Jann-Odermatt (born February 3, 1952 in Stans ) is a Swiss politician ( FDP ), one of the first two government councilors of the canton of Nidwalden .

Life and politics

Beatrice Odermatt is the daughter of Jakob Odermatt and Lotti née Edelmann; her parents ran a household business in Stans. 1959–1965 Odermatt attended primary school and then completed secondary school by 1968 at the private monastery school St. Klara in Stans. 1968–1969 followed a language stay in Lugano. From 1969–1971, she trained as a medical assistant at the Berit School in Lucerne and then worked in a medical-chemical laboratory in Lucerne. In 1974 she married Ruedi Jann. She continued her work in the same laboratory until the birth of her first child in 1975. During the family phase with two children, she worked part-time at the Stanserhorn-Bahn in administration and helped her parents with household chores.

Beatrice Jann-Odermatt's path into politics can be traced back not least to her parents' house: her grandfather Jakob Odermatt was active on the local council and as mayor of Stans during the war years, after which he was appointed chief judge. Her father worked as a justice of the peace. In 1986 Jann-Odermatt joined the Liberal Democratic Party (FDP) and, at their request, became a member of the Stans School Council, of which she was a member until 1994 and of which she rose to Vice-President in 1990. In 1994 she was elected to the district administrator , which she chaired from 2000-2001. In 2002 Jann-Odermatt made the leap to the government council, to which she was elected together with Lisbeth Gabriel as the first woman from Nidwalden. She headed the Directorate for Education, Culture and Sport. After Gabriel, in 2006 she was the second woman in the canton to hold the office of Landammann . The most important business activities during her tenure included foreign language teaching at primary school level, the integration of children with disabilities into regular classes and the promotion of culture and sport. Ex officio, Jann-Odermatt sat in various foundations such as the Central Switzerland Cultural Foundation, the Höfli Foundation and the Winkelriedhaus Foundation. In 2010 she resigned as a member of the government.

From her youth onwards, Beatrice Jann-Odermatt was active in the ski club and gymnastics club in Stans as a director and on their boards. In addition, she founded a gymnastics group of the Pro Senectute in the early 1980s . Thanks to this voluntary work, she enjoyed local fame, which proved to be helpful for her political career. In 2003 she became the first female member of the Rotary Club of Stans and since 2017 she has been a board member of the Hospice Central Switzerland Foundation.

Web links

• Alessandra Widmer: Beatrice Jann-Odermatt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 12, 2019 , accessed July 27, 2019 .

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