Cyrill Büchel
Cyrill Büchel (born March 7, 1929 in Gamprin ; † May 16, 2005 in Vaduz ) was a Liechtenstein politician ( VU ).
Youth and job
Cyrill Büchel was born in March 1929 as the second of five children to Julius Büchel and his wife Lydia (née Goop). He went to school in Gamprin and joined the Boy Scout Division founded in his home parish in 1937. In the spring of 1945 Büchel began to work at Scana Konservenfabrik AG . In the course of his 45-year career in the company, he worked there, among other things, as an authorized signatory and finally head of the purchasing department. He retired in April 1990.
Büchel had been married to Alice Schreiber from Mauren since 1960 . The marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. Bound to the scout movement all his life, Büchel became a member of its board of directors when the boy scouts guild was founded in 1988 and was a member until 1998. He died on May 16, 2005 as a result of cancer.
Political career
From 1956 to 1960 he was Vice President of the Workers' Union . From 1960 to 1966 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Liechtensteinische Landesbank . From 1963 to 1972 he was a member of the Gamprin municipal council for the Patriotic Union . Büchel was now active in state politics. From 1966 to 1978 he sat for his party as a member of the state parliament of the Principality of Liechtenstein . When his party won the state elections in 1970, he became a councilor for cultural and youth policy in the government of Alfred Hilbe . In April 1971, Walter Oehry replaced him as a member of the government.
After Büchel withdrew from active politics, he continued to be a member of the state board of his party and became a member of the board of the senior citizens' union . In 1986 he became an honorary member of the Patriotic Union.
Web links
- HLFL editorial team: Büchel, Cyrill. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein .
- Personalities who shaped Liechtenstein: Cyrill Büchel (1929–2005): Down-to-earth and cosmopolitan (PDF; 133 kB), December 27, 2011, Liechtensteiner Vaterland
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Büchel, Cyrill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Liechtenstein politician (VU) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gamprin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 2005 |
| Place of death | Vaduz |