Fridolin Stucki

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Fridolin "Fritz" Stucki (born January 5, 1913 in Netstal ; † March 2, 1996 there ; reformed , entitled to live in Netstal and Dürnten ) was a Swiss politician ( DP / SVP ).

biography

Fridolin Stucki, son of the teacher Julius Stucki and Elisa Augusta née Leuzinger, graduated from the cantonal literature high school in Zurich , studied history at the universities of Zurich and Paris and received his doctorate in Zurich in 1935. A year later, Stucki passed the state examination as a grammar school teacher , after which he taught on behalf of the Solothurn Cantonal School . In 1941 he was elected interrogator for the Canton of Glarus , an office that he held until 1952. From 1952 to 1965 he was editor of the “Glarner Nachrichten” .

Fridolin Stucki - he joined the Democratic Party - was a member of the Glarus District Administrator from 1944 , and in 1952 he moved to the Glarus Government Council , where he headed the Department of Education until 1965 and from 1970 until he left in 1973, with the Police Department in between. In addition, he held the office of governor in 1962 and, from 1968, that of Glarner Landammann . In 1962 he was elected to the Council of States , where he initially belonged to the democratic parliamentary group and from 1971 to the parliamentary group of the Swiss People's Party . Stucki acted as president of the military commission as well as a member of the foreign trade commission and the commission for the total revision of the federal constitution . In addition, Stucki was a member of the Swiss delegation to the Council of Europe from 1966 to 1968 and 1975 to 1978 . In 1978 he resigned from the Council of States.

Stucki's commitment also applied to social and cultural concerns. He emerged as the author of numerous articles on Glarus history and edited the legal sources of the Canton of Glarus , 5 volumes, published 1983 to 1985. In 1984 Stucki received the cultural award of the State of Glarus, and in 1988 he received an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Zurich.

Fridolin Stucki married Heidi in 1939, the daughter of the businessman Albert Jost. He died in 1996 at the age of 83 in Netstal.

literature

  • Glarus News. March 4, 1996.
  • Jürg Davatz: Glarus and Switzerland: highlights on reciprocal relationships. Baeschlin, Glarus 1991, ISBN 3-85546-044-2 , p. 85.
  • Roman Looser: Failed spelling reforms in Switzerland: The history of efforts to reform the German spelling in Switzerland from 1945 to 1966. In: Volume 22 of theory and mediation of language. P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1995 ISBN 3-631-48834-3 , p. 419.
  • Susanne Peter-Kubli: Netstal: an industrial village in transition. Municipal office, Netstal 2000, ISBN 3-85546-113-9 , pp. 330–334.

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personal data
SURNAME Stucki, Fridolin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stucki, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (DP / SVP)
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Netstal
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1996
Place of death Netstal