Georg Stucky

Georg Stucky (1989)

Georg Stucky (born October 6, 1930 in Basel , resident in Konolfingen ) is a Swiss politician ( FDP ). From 1975 to 1990 he was a member of the government of the Canton of Zug and from 1979 to 1999 a member of the National Council .

Life and career

Stucky's parents were the pastor Georg Stucky and the economist Emma Stucky. He studied from 1950 to 1954 in Zurich , Berlin and Basel jurisprudence and received his doctorate in 1955. In 1957, he was a lawyer . Then he went abroad for the oil industry. In Libya he was the Swiss honorary consul from 1963 to 1967 . After his return, he was General Director of Texaco AG Switzerland from 1968 to 1970 and Managing Director of the Petroleum Association from 1971 to 1979. Stucky was a member of various boards of directors . From 1985 to 2001 he was a member of the board of directors of Sika , Metro AG and Marc Rich Holding.

From 1992 to 2016 he was on the Board of Directors of Crypto AG , from 2002 to 2016 its Chairman of the Board of Directors. 85-year-old Stucky reported that he could not remember media reports that Crypto AG had belonged to the intelligence services CIA and BND via the Liechtenstein front companies in the context of Operation Rubikon . At the request of Crypto AG, in 1993 he successfully campaigned for Federal Councilor Jean-Pascal Delamuraz (FDP) to approve blocked exports.

In addition to his political and economic offices, Stucky held numerous other offices. From 1974 to 1975 he was a councilor of the Evangelical Reformed parish of the canton of Zug, which he also presided over from 1974 to 1975. From 1992 to 1998 he was Vice President and from 1998 to 2007 President of the Organization of the Swiss Abroad (OSA) . He was also President of the Swiss Foundation for the Doron Prize from Marc Rich and the AOI Center in Hünenberg .

Stucky lives in Baar . He is married for the second time.

politics

From 1975 to 1990, Stucky was a member of the Zug government council as Finance Director. On December 16, 1982, he was elected Landammann for the years 1983 to 1984 . From 1979 to 1999 he was a member of the National Council, where, among other things, he was Vice-President of the Commission for Economy and Taxes. Stucky is seen as one of the or the main creators of Zug's low-tax policy, which turned the canton from one of the poorest to the wealthiest in Switzerland. Due to the influx of trading companies, jobs were created and budget surpluses were achieved. As a result, Stucky cut taxes nine times in his sixteen-year tenure as finance director. Stucky remained convinced of this policy even after he left active politics. In his opinion, the canton's economic situation has forced action. However, he also warned against ideologizing tax cuts and stressed that tax increases should not be made taboo, but should remain conceivable if necessary. He also repeatedly regretted the loss of scenic beauty due to the heavy building activity that followed the economic boom triggered by his policy. At the same time, however, he was of the opinion that this development did not outweigh the positive aspects of the boom and that it was right to accept them. According to Stucky, he had not foreseen the extent of the changes that the low-tax policy brought with it for the canton of Zug.

literature

• Renato Morosoli: Georg Stucky. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 2, 2012 , accessed November 23, 2019 .

Web links

• Georg Stucky on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Georg Stucky in the doku-zug.ch database
• Documents by and about Georg Stucky in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Meier: "This is a boy trick beyond compare" . In: Central Switzerland on Sunday . July 31, 2016, p. 12 .
2. ↑ Cryptoleaks secret service affair - Swiss helper of the CIA - what did Villiger know? In: srf.ch. February 12, 2020, accessed February 23, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Doris Kleck and Sven Altermatt: Espionage: Former Federal Councilor Kaspar Villiger defends himself against the accusation of confidante. In: tagblatt.ch. February 12, 2020, accessed March 7, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Doris Kleck and Sven Altermatt: Espionage: Former Federal Councilor Kaspar Villiger defends himself against the accusation of confidante. In: tagblatt.ch. February 12, 2020, accessed March 7, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Lorenz Honegger and Leo Eiholzer: The lobbying machine of the Crypto: How the company secured the favor of the federal government, the army and the public. In: Lucerne newspaper. March 7, 2020, accessed March 7, 2020 . 
6. ^ Hansruedi Hürlimann: The agenda is still well stocked . In: Zug press . March 10, 2010.
7. ↑ Ernst Meier: "This is a boy trick beyond compare" . In: Central Switzerland on Sunday . July 31, 2016, p. 12 .
8. ↑ State Chancellery and State Archives of the Canton of Zug: Zug directory of persons and offices, as of February 1, 2019 . 2019, p. 400 .
9. ↑ Georg Stucky is 80 years old today . In: Neue Zuger Zeitung . October 6, 2010. Michael Schoenenberger: In a Dilemma . In: NZZ . May 18, 2011. Falco Meyer: Lowering taxes made easy. Zug's successful idea becomes the idée fixe. In: Zentralplus . October 20, 2014, accessed November 23, 2019 .  
10. ↑ Falco Meyer: Lowering taxes made easy. Zug's successful idea becomes the idée fixe. In: Zentralplus . October 20, 2014, accessed November 23, 2019 .  Michael Schoenenberger: In a dilemma . In: NZZ . May 18, 2011.
11. ↑ Michael Schoenenberger: In the Dilemma . In: NZZ . May 18, 2011.
12. ↑ Falco Meyer: Lowering taxes made easy. Zug's successful idea becomes the idée fixe. In: Zentralplus . October 20, 2014, accessed November 23, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Michael Schoenenberger: In the Dilemma . In: NZZ . May 18, 2011. Falco Meyer: Lowering taxes made easy. Zug's successful idea becomes the idée fixe. In: Zentralplus . October 20, 2014, accessed November 23, 2019 .  
14. ↑ Falco Meyer: Lowering taxes made easy. Zug's successful idea becomes the idée fixe. In: Zentralplus . October 20, 2014, accessed November 23, 2019 .