Daniel Vischer

Daniel Vischer (2007)

Daniel Vischer (born January 16, 1950 in Basel ; † January 17, 2017 in Zurich ; resident in Basel) was a Swiss politician ( Greens ), from 2003 to 2015 a member of the National Council .

Life

Family, education and work

Daniel Vischer was a son of the legal scholar Frank Vischer . After graduating from the High School Münchenstein , he studied from 1980 jurisprudence . In 1984 he graduated with a licentiate , and in 1987 he was admitted to the bar . From 1988 he worked as a freelance lawyer and was also active in the legal information collective of lawyers . His focus was on criminal law , labor law and divorce law .

He was married with two children and lived in Zurich. He succumbed to long-standing lung cancer in January 2017 at the age of 67 .

Political career

In 1968 Daniel Vischer was Zurich secretary of the Progressive Organizations in Switzerland (POCH). Vischer became involved against the Schwarzenbach initiatives of the National Action and in 1975 took part in the occupation of the site of the planned nuclear power plant in Kaiseraugst . From 1983 to 2003 he was a member of the Zurich Cantonal Council . In 1990 he moved to the Greens, whose cantonal parliamentary group he chaired from 1999 to 2003. In 1993 he became president of the VPOD Air Transport Union . In the same year he was a candidate for the Greens. From 2000 to 2005 he was a member of the Constitutional Council of the Canton of Zurich, which was tasked with drafting a new cantonal constitution. In 2003 he became President of the Switzerland – Palestine Society .

From 2003 to 2015 he was a member of the National Council . From 2005 to 2007 he was President of the National Council Legal Commission (RK-NR). In the 2003 and 2007 elections he was a candidate for the Council of States of the Green Canton of Zurich.

Contacts to the GDR

The Stasi spy Marcel Bähler met four members of the POCH in Zurich on June 6, 1974. In addition to Bähler, Daniel Vischer, Niklaus Scherr , Rudolf Stohler and Thomas Heilmann took part in this meeting . In the report to his commanding officers, Bähler wrote: "I estimate that these people are suitable for conspiratorial work for socialism." Vischer denied further contacts with Marcel Bähler. After the meeting with Bähler, Vischer took part in several talks with the GDR delegation in the Volkshaus and visited the GDR privately.

criticism

When Daniel Vischer gave an interview with amateur reporters from the “We Are Change Switzerland” (WAC) movement on the occasion of an anti-Israel demonstration, there was public criticism. Among other things, the background to this was published by the sect researcher Hugo Stamm in the Tages-Anzeiger . On the one hand, Vischer's involvement with sectarian conspiracy theorists and, on the other hand, his own choice of words was criticized. Daniel Vischer later separated himself from the interview and from this group. He protested that he had not known the group before.

Web links

• Daniel Vischer on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Personal website ( Memento from October 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Portrait on the website of the Green City of Zurich
• Benedict Neff : Daniel Vischer, prophet of misfortune. In: Basler Zeitung from June 20, 2014.
• Lucien Scherrer: Vischer's Game. The amazing career of a professional revolutionary who became the figurehead of the Green Party . Portrait in the NZZ from November 2, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Jean-Martin Büttner: Daniel Vischer is dead. In: Tages-Anzeiger Online. January 19, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
2. ↑ Father against son. In: SonntagsBlick . October 21, 2001.
3. ↑ TeleZüri , January 19, 2017.
4. ↑ Erwin Bischof : Traitors and Failures. How Stasi spies infiltrated Switzerland during the Cold War. Bern 2013, p. 116.
5. ↑ Ibid., P. 117.
6. ↑ Ibid., P. 121 f.
7. ^ Hugo Stamm : The National Councilors Vischer and Müller with the conspirators. In: Tages-Anzeiger Online. May 8, 2010. Retrieved January 19, 2017 .