Franziska Teuscher

Franziska Teuscher (2013)

Franziska Teuscher (born March 7, 1958 in Bern , resident in Bern, Erlenbach im Simmental and Trub ) is a Swiss politician ( Greens ). She has been a member of the Bern city government since January 1, 2013 and heads the Directorate for Education, Social Affairs and Sport (BSS) .

biography

Franziska Teuscher studied biology at the University of Bern and environmental science at the University of Zurich . She worked as a biologist in local and regional site and landscape planning. This was followed by scientific collaboration in setting up the federal inventory of floodplain areas of national importance. She then worked for the private planning office naturaqua as an expert in the field of floodplain protection. In 1989 she was a founding member of the Fach-Frauen-Umwelt (FFU) , a network and advocacy group for women in nature and the environment.

The beginning of political work goes back to the student days. Franziska Teuscher was a member of the board of the student body at the University of Bern . From 1989 she was first involved in the Bern City Council (legislature) and from 1990 to 1995 in the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern (legislature). In the national elections in 1995 she was elected to the National Council as the first representative of the Green Alliance . There she represented green issues on a national level until March 2013. Most recently she was a member of the Commission for Transport and Telecommunications (KVF) and a member of the Commission for the Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy (UREK). From 2012, she was also a member of the National Council's audit commission and the audit delegation of the National Council and Council of States. She was involved in environmental, energy and transport policy as well as social, trade union and feminist issues.

In the 2003-2007 legislature, it submitted the highest number of proposals of all council members with 119.

In 2006 Franziska Teuscher took over the cantonal presidency of the Green Alliance. After the Green Canton of Bern was founded in 2007 (the merger of the Green Alliance and the Green Free List GFL), she became co-president of the Green Canton of Bern together with Johanna Wälti-Schlegel (GFL). She held this office until 2008. Together with Aline Trede , Franziska Teuscher was Vice President of the Swiss Greens from April 2008 to April 2012.

Franziska Teuscher was the first woman to head the Swiss Transport Club (VCS): She was the central president of the left-green association from 2003 to 2013. Her successor was SP National Councilor Evi Allemann .

In March 2012, Franziska Teuscher was nominated by her party as a candidate for the Bern city government and was elected to the five-person body ( local council ) on November 25, 2012 . She then resigned from the National Council and Aline Trede took over her National Council seat in March 2013.

Franziska Teuscher was re-elected on November 27, 2016 and continues her work as Director of the Directorate for Education, Social Affairs and Sport of the City of Bern.

Franziska Teuscher lives in Bern, is married and has two grown children.

Web links

• Franziska Teuscher on bern.ch
• Franziska Teuscher on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Website from Franziska Teuscher

Individual evidence

1. ^ BSS website
2. ↑ http://www.ffu-pee.ch
3. ↑ Advance statistics 2003–2007. P. 19 of the PDF on parlament.ch
4. ↑ Greens with two women at the top ( memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Media release of April 21, 2012 
5. ↑ Evi Allemann is the new VCS President. In: Der Bund from April 20, 2013
6. ^ Dossier Der Bund , accessed on April 22, 2012.
7. ^ Results of the municipal council elections on November 25, 2012. In: www.bern.ch. Retrieved January 30, 2014 .