Christoph von Rotz

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Christoph von Rotz (2007)

Christoph von Rotz (born October 15, 1966 in Sarnen , Canton Obwalden ) is a Swiss politician ( SVP ). He was a member of the National Council from 2007 to 2011 .

Life and political office

In the National Council elections on October 21, 2007 , von Rotz stood against Patrick Imfeld (CVP), Luke Gasser (non-party, but CVP-oriented) and Beat von Wyl (SP). He just won the election with 4,523 votes against 4,462, 3,095 and 1,569. In the National Council he was a member of the Commission for Transport and Telecommunications (KVF) . In the elections on October 23, 2011 , von Rotz stood against Karl Vogler ( CSP OW ), whose candidacy was supported by the FDP , CVP , and SP . With a relatively high participation rate of 64.27%, Karl Vogler won with 8,896 votes against Christoph von Rotz with 6,739 votes.

Von Rotz was a member of the Obwalden cantonal council from June 2002 to June 2008 and was re-elected to the council in 2014.

From 2011 to 2017 Christoph von Rotz was President of the Association of Business Informatics (VIW) . The qualified computer scientist is married and lives in Sarnen.

Political activity

During his tenure in the National Council, von Rotz submitted 45 proposals , including eight motions . The latter dealt mainly with public and private transport and its financing, with the postal and telecommunications system and the financing of family-internal childcare. In a modified form and against the will of the Federal Council, his motions for setting the federal payment deadlines and contemporary technical regulations for emergency calls were transferred . After von Rotz left the National Council, the latter was taken over by his parliamentary colleague Sebastian Frehner ( Canton Basel-Stadt ) and completed.

The following motions attracted particular media attention.

  • In June 2010, Christoph von Rotz submitted an interpellation to the National Council demanding information on the Federal Council's approach to reserving the third lane as an express line on three-lane motorways and making their use dependent on the purchase of a special vignette . The move was "written off" after he left the National Council; thus the proposal , which the media described as a luxury trail and rejected by the Federal Council, was not pursued any further.
  • In November 2014, as a representative of SVP Sarnen, von Rotz submitted a counter-motion to the municipal assembly of Sarnen for the naturalization of a 22-year-old severely disabled Iraqi who can only communicate through facial expressions and gestures. The local council had advocated naturalization. Von Rotz had, among other things, raised doubts about the applicant's required basic linguistic and civic knowledge and complained about the poor integration of his family - which, however, was not eligible for naturalization. In the secret ballot he requested, his counter-motion was accepted and the application for naturalization rejected. Shortly afterwards, an appeal to the Obwalden government was announced against this decision. This was approved and the naturalization was then accepted in the second attempt.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Projections: Tessin, Obwalden and Glarus article on news.ch from October 21, 2007
  2. ↑ Karl Vogler throws Christoph von Rotz out . Neue Luzerner Zeitung Online, October 23, 2011
  3. ↑ Former National Councilor von Rotz takes cantonal council seat . In: Neue Obwaldner Zeitung , March 9, 2014
  4. ↑ Christoph von Rotz on the website of the canton of Obwalden.
  5. ↑ The board proposes as the new President of the VIW: National Councilor Christoph von Rotz (PDF) ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.viw.ch
  6. ^ SVP National Councilor Christoph von Rotz presides over the information systems association . Report on it-markt.ch, accessed on May 18, 2015
  7. ↑ Proposals submitted by Christoph von Rotz on the Federal Assembly's website
  8. ↑ Motions submitted by Christoph von Rotz on the Federal Assembly website
  9. ↑ Motion 08.3298 setting the federal payment deadlines
  10. ↑ Motion 11.3352 Up-to-date technical regulations for emergency calls
  11. ↑ 10.3432 - Interpellation on road transport financing with additional benefits through an express line , full text of the submitted interpellation on the Federal Assembly's website
  12. ↑ SVP suggests luxury lane on motorways . In: Tages-Anzeiger , June 21, 2010
  13. ↑ Federal Council thinks little of special vignettes for express lines . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 20, 2010
  14. ↑ No express lines on Swiss motorways , article in the radio broadcast of the regional journal Zentralschweiz , Radio SRF 1 , August 20, 2010, (time: 0:49 - 2:00)
  15. ↑ Controversial naturalization decision is being dragged on , radio report on Radio SRF 1 , November 13, 2014
  16. ↑ Naturalization fails because of the family . In: Neue Obwaldner Zeitung, November 6, 2014, p. 19
  17. ↑ Minutes of the Extraordinary Municipal Assembly of Sarnen on November 4, 2014 (PDF) , accessed on May 22, 2015
  18. ↑ Sarnen does not want to naturalize paralyzed Iraqis . In: IVB-Noochrichte, No. 105, December 2014, p. 10.
  19. ↑ Controversial naturalization decision will be continued . In: SRF Regional Zentralschweiz; November 13, 2014, 12:01 pm
  20. ↑ Community assembly : Sarnen naturalized paralyzed Iraqis in the 2nd attempt. In: Neue Obwaldner Zeitung, November 11, 2015
predecessor Office successor
Adriano Imfeld National Councilor of the Canton of Obwalden
2007–2011 		Karl Vogler
personal data
SURNAME Rotz, Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SVP)
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarnen , Canton of Obwalden