Brigitte Mürner-Gilli

Brigitte Mürner-Gilli (1991)

Brigitte Mürner-Gilli (born June 1, 1944 in Lucerne , resident in Meggen ) is a Swiss politician ( CVP ). She was the first member of the government of the Canton of Lucerne .

Life

As the daughter of the painter Josef Gilli and the commercial employee Helene, born Hoesly, Brigitte Gilli attended primary school in Reussbühl from 1951 to 1957 and secondary school from 1957 to 1960. From 1960–1965 she trained as a primary school teacher at the private seminar for female teachers at Kloster Baldegg , since at that time there was no public teaching seminar in the canton of Lucerne that was open to women. In 1968 she married Rolf Mürner, with whom she had three children. Until the birth of her first child in 1969, she worked as a primary school teacher in Reiden and Reussbühl, after which she regularly took on substitutes at schools. 1971–1974 Mürner-Gilli completed part-time training at the Lucerne Academy for School and Church Music. In 1973 she was appointed director of the newly created music school in Littau .

politics

In 1971 Brigitte Mürner-Gilli refused a request to run for the Littau community council. On the list of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP), she was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Lucerne in 1975 , to which she belonged until 1987 and which she chaired in 1986. In 1987 she was the first woman to join the Lucerne government council, where she was Head of Education until she resigned in 1999. During this time, she advocated holistic education and educational issues for women at elementary school level. At grammar school level , among other things, she initiated the establishment of a maturity school for adults , which was especially attended by women. During her term of office, the merger of private and cantonal educational institutions to form the Central Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in Lucerne and the planning work for the University of Lucerne , the establishment of which was approved in a vote in 2000.

further activities

Brigitte Mürner-Gilli did volunteer work during and after her political activities, for example 1999–2006 as President of the Lucerne School of Music, 1999–2004 as a board member at the Office Center for the Disabled (now the Contenti Foundation), 1999–2004 as President of the Swiss Association for Youth and Music as well as in the network women Lucerne. From 1999–2014 she was a member of the board of directors of the Klett und Balmer publishing house.

Web links

• Alessandra Widmer: Brigitte Mürner-Gilli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 12, 2019 , accessed July 30, 2019 . With photo by Brigitte Mürner-Gilli.

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