Guido A. Zäch

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Guido A. Zäch (2007)

Guido Alfons Zäch (born October 1, 1935 in Häggenschwil , Canton of St. Gallen ), entitled to live in Oberriet , is a Swiss doctor and politician . The concept of the holistic rehabilitation of paraplegics goes back to him . He is a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP).

biography

After the Matura type A and the medical state examination in Basel, Zäch worked as an assistant and senior physician at the Cantonal Hospital Basel . From 1973 to 1989 he was chief physician at the Swiss Paraplegic Center in Basel. He gained national fame as the founder, chief physician and director of the Swiss Paraplegic Center Nottwil and as the founder and president of the Swiss Paraplegic Foundation . On his initiative, the Swiss Paraplegic Association was also established as a self-help organization for paraplegics.

From 1984 to 1988 he was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and was a member of the hospital commission. From the 1999 to 2003 elections he was a member of the National Council of the Canton of Aargau . Zäch lives in Zofingen .

In 2002, the Basel public prosecutor brought charges against Zäch. Both the Basel Criminal Court and the Basel Court of Appeal sentenced him, the latter to 16 months in prison, for multiple embezzlement with a loss of 1.4 million francs. Zäch moved the verdict to the federal court , which on March 19, 2007 upheld the sentence of the lower court. The foundation supervision in the Federal Department of Home Affairs then asked the Paraplegic Foundation to explain who will lead the foundation in the future and how the rest of the 1.3 million Swiss francs will be reimbursed. Zäch then resigned from the Board of Trustees on September 30, 2007. He was made honorary president. Guido A. Zäch was awarded the Adele Duttweiler Prize in 1988 . In 1999 he received the Medal of Honor from the International Medical Society of Paraplegia (IMSOP, now ISCoS ), and in 1997 the University of Freiburg im Üechtland awarded him the honorary doctorate of Dr. rer. nat. H. c.

2015, the municipality gave him Nottwil the honorary citizenship .

Zäch is married and has seven children.

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  1. ↑ 16 months in prison for Guido A. Zäch. In: OnlineReports . October 24, 2005, accessed August 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ The judgment against Guido Zäch is final. In: NZZ Online . March 28, 2007. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ Honorary President. A persistent pioneer. In: Website of the Swiss Paraplegic Foundation.
  4. ↑ Dr. Guido A. Zäch is an honorary citizen of Nottwil. ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Website of the Nottwil community, October 26, 2015, accessed October 29, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nottwil.ch
personal data
SURNAME Zäch, Guido A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zäch, Guido Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and politician (CVP)
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Häggenschwil , Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland