Georges Breny
Georges Breny , born as El Hedi Ben Abdallah (born June 24, 1930 in Tunis ; † September 16, 2005 in Köniz , from 1959 entitled to live in La Chaux-de-Fonds ) was a Swiss politician ( NA ).
Life
Georges Breny was born in Tunis as the son of a Tunisian postal worker and the Swiss Eugenie Breny. His mother, whose name he took, returned to Switzerland in 1931 and settled in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Breny attended secondary school and then completed an apprenticeship as an electrical mechanic . From 1958 to 1965 he worked as an acheveur in a watch factory and from 1965 to 1993 as a tram driver in Bern .
Georges Breny was a founding member of the cantonal party of the National Action in the canton of Bern . Since the law did not have to include the place of residence of a candidate on the election lists for the National Council , NA put Breny on the list of the Canton of Vaud in the National Council elections of 1971, despite his place of residence in Bern . The people of Vaud finally elected him to the National Council, although Breny was largely unknown to this canton. In the end he had a single seat from 1971 to 1975.
His political action was based on what he saw as an impending ecological and demographic catastrophe. He was active as a radical environmentalist and fought against industrialization , economic expansion , the sale of land to foreigners, and against the easier naturalization. He was the first parliamentarian to call for a ban on the destruction of the ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons .
Web links
- Gilbert Marion: Breny, Georges. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Letters to the Editor. Verein gegen Tierfabriken (Switzerland) , accessed on September 20, 2010 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breny, Georges |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | El Hedi Ben Abdallah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician (NA) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tunis |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 2005 |
| Place of death | Koeniz |