Gret Haller

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Gret Haller (1996)

Gret Haller (born October 1, 1947 in Zurich ) is a Swiss publicist and former politician ( SP ). In 1993/94, she was President of the National Council .

Live and act

Gret Haller grew up with three siblings. The economic difficulties of the single mother shaped and politicized her.

In 1973 she did her doctorate at the University of Zurich on the UN human rights conventions and the legal status of women in Switzerland. Afterwards she worked first in a private office for architecture and town planning , then from 1975 to 1977 as a civil servant in the Federal Department of Justice and Police , and finally from 1978 to 1984 she ran a private law firm.

Gret Haller, President of the National Council 1993/94

From 1984 to 1988 she was a member of the City Council of Bern , from 1987 to 1994 a member of the Swiss National Council as well as the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe and the OSCE . In 1993/94 she served as President of the National Council and from 1994 to 1996 as Swiss Ambassador to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. From 1996 to 2000 she worked on behalf of the OSCE as ombudswoman for human rights of the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo . In 2004 Gret Haller was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Gallen . She has been a visiting scholar since 2006 and a lecturer at the Institute for Criminal Science and Legal Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main since 2007 . In 2007 she was appointed member of the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the Council of Europe, the so-called Venice Commission , for four years . She has been President of the Swiss Society for Foreign Policy since 2014.

Quote

"People who try are much more important than those who seem to have achieved it."

- Gret Haller

Fonts

  • Politics of the gods. Europe and the new fundamentalism. Berlin 2005.
  • The limits of solidarity. Europe and the USA in dealing with the state, nation and religion. Berlin 2002
  • with Klaus Günther and Ulfrid Neumann (eds.): Human rights and popular sovereignty in Europe. Courts as Guardians of Democracy? , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011 ISBN 978-3-593-39283-7
  • Human rights without democracy ?: The path to the reconciliation of freedom and equality . Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-351-02751-3 Review: Grit Eggerichs: Problem case Balkan , DLF, November 26, 2012

Web links

Commons : Gret Haller  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elisa Häni: Interview Radio SRF: Gret Haller - Fighter for women's rights and human dignity . April 2, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2017 .
  2. ^ Margareta Haller-Zimmermann: The UN human rights conventions and the legal position of women in Switzerland. 1973, accessed April 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Five past twelve, so what? Doomsday Talk 3 , interview with Gret Haller from 1983, published on Infosperber on January 6, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Haller, Gret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haller-Zimmermann, Margareta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP) and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich