Doris Leuthard

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Doris Leuthard (2016)
Doris Leuthard on the official Federal Council photo , 2017

Doris Leuthard (bourgeois Doris Leuthard Hausin ; born April 10, 1963 in Merenschwand ; resident in Sarnen and Merenschwand) is a Swiss politician ( CVP ).

From 1999 to 2006 she was a national councilor , from 2004 to 2006 party president of the CVP. From August 1, 2006 to December 31, 2018, she was a member of the Swiss government, the Federal Council .

Life

Leuthard grew up as the oldest of four siblings. Her father Leonz Leuthard was the municipality clerk of Merenschwand for many years and sat on the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau . After completing the compulsory schooling in Merenschwand and Muri , she attended the canton school in Wohlen . She studied law at the University of Zurich , made study visits to Paris and Calgary and received the title lic. iur. In 1991 she was admitted to the bar and worked as a lawyer in Wohlen and Muri until 2006. On New Year's Eve 1999 she married the chemist Roland Hausin, who holds a leading position at Dow Europe GmbH, which is part of the chemical group Dow Chemical .

Her political career began in 1993 when she was elected school councilor for the Muri district. In 1997 he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau. She quickly became known through these activities. In 1999 she ran for both the National Council and the Council of States . Her election campaign caused a sensation, as the then party secretary of the CVP Aargau, Reto Nause , had thousands of shower sachets printed with her portrait and distributed. The Aargauer Zeitung created the headline “Showers with Doris”, which became an unofficial campaign slogan. Although it was not enough for the election to the Council of States, Leuthard achieved one of the best results in the entire canton in the election to the National Council.

In 2000 she gave up her mandates as school councilor and councilor and became vice-president of both the cantonal party and CVP Switzerland. In the National Council she was a member of the Commission for Economy and Taxes. From 2002 to 2006 she sat on the board of directors of the Neue Aargauer Bank and the electricity company Laufenburg . After the resignation of party president Philipp Stähelin , Doris Leuthard led the party on an interim basis for a few months. On September 18, 2004 she was finally elected party president of the CVP. As such, it gained national fame through the endeavor to give CVP Switzerland a new profile after the 2003 election defeat.

In the follow-election for Joseph Deiss on 14 June 2006 Leuthard was elected in a single candidacy with 133 of 234 valid votes in the Federal Council; Her successor in the National Council was Markus Zemp , and Christophe Darbellay took over the party presidency . From 2006 to 2010 Leuthard was head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA) and since 2010 has headed the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication (DETEC).

On December 10, 2008, the United Federal Assembly elected Leuthard as Vice-President for 2009 with 173 out of 198 valid votes. On December 2, 2009, she was elected President of 2010 with 158 out of 183 valid votes . She was also Vice President of the Federal Council in 2016 and Federal President in 2017. On September 27, 2018, Leuthard announced her resignation as of December 31 of the same year.

At the end of February 2019 it was announced that Leuthard would be elected to the Board of Directors of Coop on March 28, 2019 , and to the Bell Food Group on April 16, 2019 . In May 2019, Leuthard became the first and only honorary citizen of Sarnen in the canton of Obwalden , where her husband's family comes from.

Leuthard is fluent in German, French and Italian.

Visits abroad as Federal President 2010

date place Main reason
February 11-13 Vancouver ( Canada )CanadaCanada  Attending the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics and attending competitions
February 22 Madrid ( Spain )SpainSpain  Meeting with the Spanish King Juan Carlos I and Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
February 25th and 26th Paris ( France )FranceFrance  Participation in the OECD Agriculture Ministers' Meeting
March 25th and 26th Vienna ( Austria )AustriaAustria  Meeting with Federal President Heinz Fischer and Vice Chancellor Josef Pröll
April 12th and 13th Washington, DC ( United States )United StatesUnited States  Participation in the nuclear safety summit
April 23 Berlin ( Germany )GermanyGermany  Meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel
May 6th and 7th Rome ( Italy ) and Vatican CityItalyItaly Vatican cityVatican  Participation in the swearing in of the recruits of the Pontifical Swiss Guard and an audience with Pope Benedict XVI. and meeting with the Secretary of State of the Vatican, Tarcisio Bertone , and the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
May 27th and 28th Paris ( France )FranceFrance  Participation in a meeting of the OECD Council at ministerial level
8th June Berlin ( Germany )GermanyGermany  Participation in the opening of the International Aerospace Exhibition together with Chancellor Angela Merkel
June 11th Johannesburg and Vanderbijlpark ( South Africa )South AfricaSouth Africa  Meeting with South African government representatives, visiting the opening game of the 2010 World Cup and visiting the training camp of the Swiss national football team
July 6-8 Jakarta and Surabaya ( Indonesia )IndonesiaIndonesia  State visit; Meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and other Indonesian government representatives
July 9 SingaporeSingapore Singapore Meeting with President Sellapan Ramanathan and other government officials
July 19 Brussels ( Belgium )BelgiumBelgium  Meeting with the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy and the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso
21 July Paris ( France )FranceFrance  Meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy
August 10-14 Chongqing , Shanghai and Beijing ( People's Republic of China )China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  Meeting with representatives of the Chinese government and authorities as well as representatives of the Swiss economy, visit to the Expo 2010 and meeting with the Chinese President Hu Jintao and the chairman of the People's Congress Wu Bangguo in Beijing
26th of August Sochi ( Russia )RussiaRussia  Meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
September 6th Vaduz ( Liechtenstein )LiechtensteinLiechtenstein  Meeting with the Liechtenstein Prime Minister Klaus Tschütscher and Hereditary Prince Alois
September 23rd New York City ( United States )United StatesUnited States  Participation in the General Assembly of the United Nations
October 3 Doha ( Qatar )QatarQatar  Meeting with the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Prime Minister Hamad ibn Jazim ibn Jabir Al Thani
4th and 5th October Amman ( Jordan )JordanJordan  Meeting with King Abdullah II and Prime Minister Samir Rifai and visiting a refugee camp
October 14th and 15th Oslo ( Norway )NorwayNorway  State visit; Meeting with King Harald and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg
November 1st Lübeck ( Germany )GermanyGermany  Participation in the meeting of German-speaking heads of state
December 8th and 9th Cancun ( Mexico )MexicoMexico  Participation in the UN climate conference

Visits abroad as Federal President 2017

date place Main reason
April 6th Brussels ( Belgium )BelgiumBelgium  Meeting with the President of the European Commission , Jean-Claude Juncker
10th of April Tallinn ( Estonia )EstoniaEstonia  Meeting with President Kersti Kaljulaid and Prime Minister Jüri Ratas
April 18th to 20th Buenos Aires ( Argentina )ArgentinaArgentina  Meeting with President Mauricio Macri and other government representatives
April 21 Lima ( Peru )PeruPeru  Meeting with President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
April 25 Zagreb ( Croatia )CroatiaCroatia  Meeting with President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and Prime Minister Andrej Plenković
May 5th and 6th Rome ( Italy ) and Vatican CityItalyItaly Vatican cityVatican  Meeting with the Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni ; Participation in the swearing in of the recruits of the Pontifical Swiss Guard as well as an audience with Pope Francis and meeting with Archbishop Paul Gallagher
May 13th to 15th Beijing ( People's Republic of China )China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  Meeting with President Xi Jinping and attending the OBOR summit
31. May Leipzig ( Germany )GermanyGermany  Meeting with the transport ministers of the Rotterdam - Genoa freight corridor
July 12 Accra ( Ghana )GhanaGhana  Meeting with the Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
July 13th Cotonou , Abomey-Calavi and Ouidah ( Benin )BeninBenin  Meeting with the President of Benin, Patrice Talon , and participation in the opening of a school built with Swiss support
16th of July London ( United Kingdom )United KingdomUnited Kingdom  Attending the Wimbledon final match between Roger Federer and Marin Čilić
July 18th Paris ( France )FranceFrance  Meeting with President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Édouard Philippe
August 7th Copenhagen and Ilulissat ( Denmark )DenmarkDenmark  Meeting with Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and a visit to the Swiss Camp in Greenland
August 11th Astana ( Kazakhstan )KazakhstanKazakhstan  Meeting with President Nursultan Nazarbayev and visiting Expo 2017
August 31st and September 1st New Delhi ( India )IndiaIndia  State visit; Meeting with President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi
September 18-20 New York City ( United States )United StatesUnited States  Participation in the General Assembly of the United Nations
September 27th Luxembourg ( Luxembourg )LuxembourgLuxembourg  Participation in the meeting of German-speaking heads of state
November 2 Sofia ( Bulgaria )BulgariaBulgaria  Meeting with President Rumen Radew and Prime Minister Boyko Borisov
November 16 Bonn ( Germany )GermanyGermany  Participation in the UN climate conference
November 27th Vienna ( Austria )AustriaAustria  Participation in the 17th general conference of UNIDO as well as bilateral meetings with the Austrian Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and Federal Chancellor Christian Kern
November 28th and 29th Lisbon ( Portugal )PortugalPortugal  Meeting with the Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prime Minister António Costa
December 4th Tbilisi ( Georgia )GeorgiaGeorgia  Meeting with the Georgian President Giorgi Margwelashvili and Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili
12th of December Paris ( France )FranceFrance  Participation in the One Planet Summit

Act

In 2012, Leuthard was the winner of the Arosa Humor Shovel 2012, a jury award from the Arosa Humor Festival , received honorary citizenship of the municipality of Sarnen in 2019 and became an Honorary Senator in 2019 as a former student of the University of Zurich .

Called "Doris National", Leuthard is called charming and even a woman of state. Under Leuthard's chairmanship in the Department of Economic Affairs, the free trade agreement with China was drawn up , which her successor was able to conclude. In addition, she initiated the gradual phase-out of nuclear power in the Federal Council after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima in 2011 and is considered to be the initiator of the energy transition. Leuthard was regularly in first place in surveys on the popularity of government members and has a proud record in Swiss referendums. It won a vote 15 out of 17 times with the positions of the Federal Council.

documentation

literature

Web links

Commons : Doris Leuthard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Federal Chancellery: The Confederation in Brief , page 71, published in 2008.
  2. The Dilemma of Doris Leuthard. In: NZZ Online . April 29, 2006, accessed April 14, 2011.
  3. Presidential year 2017. In: admin.ch . Retrieved January 1, 2017 .
  4. Doris Leuthard elected Federal President. In: NZZ Online . December 2, 2009, accessed April 14, 2011.
  5. ^ The emotional appearance of Doris Leuthard. Retrieved September 27, 2018 .
  6. Doris Leuthard is nominated for the Coop Board of Directors. In: handelszeitung .ch. February 26, 2019, accessed February 26, 2019 .
  7. Former Federal Councilor Doris Leuthard is now double Sarnerin. In: Obwaldner Zeitung , May 7, 2019
  8. ^ A b Armando Mombelli: Doris Leuthard: Swiss government is losing its radiant face. In: swissinfo.ch. September 27, 2018, accessed May 2, 2019 .
  9. 20 minutes online: Doris Leuthard honored for her humor , accessed on December 10, 2012.
  10. Granting of honorary citizenship to Doris Leuthard Hausin. Municipality of Sarnen, April 11, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2019 .
  11. The University of Zurich awards six new honorary doctorates. University of Zurich, April 27, 2019, accessed on May 2, 2019 .
  12. ase., Dgy., Gam., Ks .: Federal Councilor Doris Leuthard fought back tears - "I hope you are satisfied with my work". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. September 27, 2018, accessed May 2, 2019 .
  13. Doris Leuthard will step down in autumn 2019 at the latest. In: SRF 4 news. July 31, 2017, accessed May 2, 2019 .
predecessor Office Successor
Joseph Deiss Member of the Swiss Federal Council
2006–2018
Viola Amherd