Felix Gutzwiller

Felix Gutzwiller (2011)

Felix Gutzwiller (born February 22, 1948 in Basel ) is a Swiss social and preventive medicine specialist and politician ( FDP.The Liberals ).

resume

Felix Gutzwiller is the son of the classical philologist Hans Gutzwiller , former constitutional councilor and rector of the humanistic grammar school from 1946 to 1973 and the grammar school teacher Annemarie Gutzwiller-Kätterer. Felix Gutzwiller graduated from the Humanistic Gymnasium in 1967 with the Matura. After passing the state examination at the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel, he spent four years in the USA. He received a Master of Public Health (MPH) from Harvard University in Boston and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

From 1983 to 1988 Gutzwiller was director of the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Lausanne. In 1988 he succeeded Meinrad Schär as professor and director of the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine at the University of Zurich . He retired on July 31, 2013, and was succeeded by Milo Puhan . At the same time, Gutzwiller was head of the biological service of the Swiss Armed Forces from 1985 to 1996 , lecturer in human nutrition at ETH Zurich from 1990 to 2002 and research councilor in the biology and medicine department of the Swiss National Science Foundation from 1991 to 2000 .

Felix Gutzwiller is married to Sylvia Gutzwiller-Uebersax and is entitled to live in Basel and Therwil .

politics

His political career began in 1972 when he joined the FDP Basel-Stadt . From 1985 to 1987 he was a councilor in Belmont-sur-Lausanne , Canton of Vaud . After moving to Zurich for professional reasons , he joined the FDP Zurich 2, where he has been a member since then. Since 1985 he has chaired the health policy working group of the FDP Switzerland, in which he is particularly active in the areas of drug policy and genetic engineering. From 1996 to 2000 he was chairman of the drug policy working group of the federal parties. In the 1999 elections , Gutzwiller was elected to the National Council. In 2002 he became vice-president of the FDP parliamentary group and since then has been a member of the management of the FDP-Switzerland. From 2005 to 2008 he chaired the free-thinking liberal parliamentary group in the Federal Assembly . In December 2007, he was elected Councilor of States of the Canton of Zurich with 182,533 votes in the first ballot and in 2011 with 239,005 votes in the second ballot, the highest number of votes that a Zurich Council of States has ever achieved. During his time in the Council of States, he was a member of the Commission for Social Security and Health (SGK-SR), the Foreign Policy Commission (APK-SR), as well as temporarily President of the Commission for Science, Education and Culture (WBK-SR) as well as a delegate of the inter-parliamentary Union (IPU-V). On December 7, 2015, Gutzwiller resigned from the Council of States.

Web links

• Felix Gutzwiller's website
• Felix Gutzwiller on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Political profile of Felix Gutzwiller (voting behavior in the National Council, 46th legislature, 1999–2003) ( Memento from June 28, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
• Felix Gutzwiller - The well-connected federal politician , portrait in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 31, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The ISPM of the University of Zurich - a portrait , website of the Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, accessed on August 15, 2013.
2. ^ Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine: Academic Report 2012 , p. 3, accessed on August 15, 2013.