Corine Mauch

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Corine Mauch

Corine Mauch (born May 28, 1960 in Iowa City , United States ; resident in Teufenthal and Zurich ) is a Swiss politician ( SP ). She has been the mayor of Zurich since May 2009 .

Live and act

origin

Corine Mauch was born in the United States as a Swiss-US-American citizen and grew up partly there and partly in Oberlunkhofen in the canton of Aargau . At the end of 2012, she gave up her US citizenship because she feels much more connected to Switzerland. She is the daughter of Ursula Mauch , Aargau SP National Councilor (1979–1995) and the engineer Samuel Mauch, who co-founded the left-wing group 67 in Baden in 1967 . Her maternal uncle is the entrepreneur Hans Widmer .

Education and professional activities

Corine Mauch studied at the ETH Zurich and graduated as an agricultural economist. She studied Sinology at the University of Zurich and has a master's degree in Political and Administrative Sciences from the University of Lausanne / IDHEAP .

For four years Mauch was waste and environmental officer for the city of Uster and worked, among other things, as head of the SAGUF (Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology) office and as a project manager at Interface Political Studies Lucerne. Before taking office as Mayor of the City, Corine Mauch worked as a project manager for evaluations and impact controls at the parliamentary services of the Federal Assembly .

Corine Mauch at Sechseläuten in Zurich (2010)

politics

Mauch has been a member of the SP since 1990. From 1999 she was a member of the Zurich City Council , among other things as President of the Auditing Commission, from October 2008 she was parliamentary group president .

Corine Mauch sets her political priorities in energy, environmental and planning policy. The central concern of her work as a councilor was the inclusion of the goal of the 2000-watt society in the municipal code of the city of Zurich, which in particular includes the increased use of renewable energy sources and the more efficient use of energy, but also stipulates the city's withdrawal from nuclear energy. As a councilor, she also dealt with cultural policy, one of the mayor's core tasks. She also exerts political influence on same-sex issues, such as demands during the election campaign for support for gay and lesbian cultural projects or that homosexuality should be included in all school lessons as an equal way of life.

Election to the city council

On December 2, 2008, she was nominated by the Social Democratic Party of the City of Zurich as a candidate for the successor to the resigning Mayor Elmar Ledergerber . In the first ballot on February 8, 2009, her opponent Kathrin Martelli from the FDP was ahead of Mauch with around 1,300 votes, without achieving an absolute majority. In the second ballot on March 29, 2009, 41,745 Zurich elected Corine Mauch as the first female mayor of Zurich . Mauch was re-elected on March 7, 2010, February 9, 2014 and March 4, 2018.

Private

Corine Mauch lives with her long-term partner, the musician Juliana Müller, in Zurich's Unterstrass district . In April 2014 they registered their partnership .

literature

Web links

Commons : Corine Mauch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Silvio Temperli: Corine Mauch has returned the US passport . In: Tages-Anzeiger , April 18, 2013
  2. ^ Corine Mauch, Mayor, personal. Website of the city of Zurich.
  3. ^ A b Corinne Mauch: Taxable in USA. In: Bilanz.ch , from July 4, 2011, accessed on May 16, 2015
  4. ↑ Zurich mayor gives up US citizenship - taxes. In: Welt.de , April 19, 2013
  5. ↑ Corine Mauch 02 About her biography, Agrarökonomie, 2000 watts. Video interview from December 30, 2013
  6. ↑ «I should have been thrown out». In: NZZ on Sunday , December 12, 2010
  7. ↑ Interview by gay.ch before the 2nd ballot. ( Memento of May 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved July 22, 2009.
  8. ↑ Zurich's first female city president is Corine Mauch. In: swissinfo.ch , March 29, 2009
  9. ↑ Denise Marquard: A first lady of a special kind. In: Tages-Anzeiger , March 30, 2009.
  10. ↑ Corine Mauch married her partner. Daily indicator .
predecessor Office successor
Elmar leather tanner Mayor of Zurich
since 2009 		officiating
personal data
SURNAME Mauch, Corine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Iowa City , United States