Guido Fluri

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Guido Fluri (2014)

Guido Fluri (born July 10, 1966 in Olten ) is a Swiss entrepreneur . In April 2014 , he initiated the popular initiative «Reparation for contract children and victims of compulsory welfare measures».

Live and act

Guido Fluri spent his childhood in the home with foster families and his grandparents. He gained his fortune through real estate transactions and investments. At the age of 40, the father of three fell ill with a brain tumor. His life story has shaped his humanitarian and political work. In 2019, Guido Fluri was one of the ten most sought-after Swiss personalities in the Google ranking in Switzerland.

politics

In 2010 Guido Fluri started a project to process the Swiss children's homes. In 2014, Fluri launched a popular initiative on the subject of homes and contract children, the “ reparation initiative ”.

The initiative is also attracting international attention. The Swiss magazine Der Beobachter officially supports the initiative as a media partner. In September 2016, the Council of States almost unanimously adopted the counter-proposal to the reparation initiative. Due to his strong commitment in recent years, especially when it comes to compulsory welfare measures, Fluri is considered a figure of political integration.

The Pope also received the Swiss victims of abuse. In 2019, Guido Fluri was received by Pope Francis for a private audience to discuss abuses in the Catholic Church in Switzerland. The Pope officially apologized to the abuse victims. The perpetrators are to be brought to secular courts. For the first time, the Pope spoke out on this subject with such clarity.

Guido Fluri is a member of the parliamentary group for compulsory welfare measures (PGFZM).

Foundation, endowment

In addition to his entrepreneurial activity, Guido Fluri is involved with the foundation in the fields of brain tumors, violence against children and schizophrenia.

In 2007 Guido Fluri initiated the Acoustic Neuroma Interest Group (IGAN) for people who are affected by the rare acoustic neuroma brain tumor or who are involved in research and treatment of this brain tumor.

He is the founder of the first national memorial for home and contract children in Mümliswil , where he also spent some time himself. The home was acquired for this purpose by the Guido Fluri Foundation .

In 2017, Guido Fluri, who had been placed outside the home as a child, opened a counseling center for those affected by the KESB (child and adult protection authority), the Kescha (contact point for child and adult protection), to help parents deal with the authority. In its first year of existence, the Kescha advised around 1,100 people who were affected by a measure by the KESB.

In 2017 Guido Fluri received the Cham "Champion" award in the area of ​​"Social Affairs" for his commitment to the Guido Fluri Foundation.

In the course of the Corona crisis, the Guido Fluri Foundation launched a medical emergency aid project in cooperation with the Swiss Evangelical Church in March 2020.

investor

Guido Fluri holds various companies and investments through GF Group Holding AG. Including the trademark rights of the Miss Switzerland organization since 2012 , which he sold on February 16, 2017. According to the media, he has assets of several hundred million Swiss francs. In 2020, Fluri sold the majority of its properties to Swiss Life for 360 million Swiss francs.

Awards

2016: Nomination Prix Courage

2017: Chamer CHAMpion

2018: Honorary doctorate from the Lucerne Faculty of Theology

documentation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The reparation initiative on the federal website
  2. ^ Website of the initiative
  3. World Week, September 2012
  4. Balance sheet, January 2014
  5. Blick, January 2013
  6. Only available on Youtube, original source Tele Züri, June 2013
  7. Migros Magazin, March 2014, The Driven One
  8. Swissinfo, March 2015, Guido Fluri demands justice for a stolen childhood
  9. Tages-Anzeiger, January 2017, From one construction site to the next
  10. 20min, December 2019, The most wanted personalities in Switzerland
  11. NZZ, December 2019, This is what the Swiss searched for on Google particularly often in 2019
  12. Blick, December 2019, These are the most popular search terms in 2019
  13. Observer 2010, Private allows home processing
  14. St. Galler Tagblatt, September 21, 2015: An entrepreneur moves politics
  15. SRF Rundschau, interview with Guido Fluri, April 29, 2015
  16. ^ SRF, Interview with Guido Fluri, March 31, 2014
  17. ^ Observer, April 4, 2014
  18. Tages-Anzeiger, April 8, 2014
  19. ^ Radio SRF 1, Forum, April 3, 2014
  20. NZZ, 500 million for reparations, April 1, 2014
  21. Bernerzeitung, May 2014
  22. Die Zeit, April 2016, Verdingkinder: Recognize the suffering
  23. Tages-Anzeiger, April 2016, "I awakened hope in the contract children"
  24. Die Zeit, January 30, 2014
  25. BBC, October 2014, Switzerland's Shame
  26. Opera Mundi (BRA), January 2015, Restitution Initiative
  27. Observer collects signatures for the initiative
  28. Tagesanzeiger, September 2016, Now we can bury misery
  29. SRF, September 2016, An initiator's coming to terms with the past
  30. Tages-Anzeiger, January 29, 2017, From one construction site to the next
  31. SRF Tagesschau, June 30, 2018, exploited and abused
  32. Tages-Anzeiger, March 2015, Pope receives Swiss victims of abuse
  33. Le Matin, March 2015, Victims of Abuse in the Vatican
  34. Vaticannews 2019, Consistently Report Abuse of Secular Justice
  35. NZZ, March 3, 2019, Pope Francis receives Swiss victims of abuse for the first time
  36. Bluewin, March 3, 2019, Pope receives Swiss victims of abuse
  37. Blick, March 3, 2019, Pope: perpetrators are monsters
  38. RTS, March 3, 2019, Le Pape rencontre pour la première fois des victimes suisses d'abus sexuels
  39. Tagesanzeiger, March 3, 2019, Pope invites Swiss victims of abuse to his home
  40. Le Matin, March 3, 2019, Deux victimes suisses reçues par le Pape
  41. 20minuten, March 3, 2019, Pope begs abuse victims for forgiveness
  42. Parliamentary Group PGFZM
  43. ^ Mümliswil National Memorial
  44. ^ Article by SRF, First National Memorial, June 2013
  45. NZZ, exhibition on home and contract children, June 2013
  46. Tages-Anzeiger, January 25, 2017, It takes someone to listen
  47. Aargauer Zeitung, January 2017, Unplaced as a child
  48. Berner Zeitung, January 2017, New Mediator in Conflicts
  49. Blick, February 26, 2017, Anti-Kesb hotline is running hot
  50. Switzerland on Sunday, February 25, 2017, Anti-Kesb hotline is running hot
  51. SRF, January 2018, professional crisis intervention required
  52. Luzerner Zeitung, May 2017, honor for special merits
  53. Blick, April 27, 2020, Evacuate the camps of Lesbos!
  54. SRF Tagesschau, March 21, 2020, refugee camps in Greece should be supported in the fight against Corona
  55. RSI 1, March 28, 2020, La solidarietà al tempo del virus
  56. Swiss Evangelical Church, March 22, 2020, Il virus minaccia i profughi a Lesbos
  57. TV Svizzera.it, March 23, 2020, Aiuti svizzeri per Lesbo
  58. ^ Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE), March 29, 2020, appeal for donations for Lesbos and Aleppo
  59. SRF, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, September 2015, Guido Fluri invests in a new luxury label
  60. NZZ, March 2014, Miss Switzerland should do good
  61. ^ SRF, Swiss Radio and Television, Miss Switzerland crowned in front of the Federal Palace
  62. Handelszeitung, February 2017, Guido Fluri sells Miss Switzerland Organization
  63. SRF, Swiss Radio and Television, October 2014, The fairytale rise of Mr. Fluri
  64. Weltwoche, September 2012, The good person from Cham
  65. Blick, August 2012, Who is the new, rich Missen uncle
  66. Handelszeitung, July 8, 2020, Deal with Swiss Life: Guido Fluri turns concrete gold into money
  67. Observer, Nomination Prix Courage 2016
  68. Luzerner Zeitung, Guido Fluri is Chamer CHAMpion 2017 Social division
  69. Luzerner Zeitung November 2018, Guido Fluri receives an honorary doctorate
  70. Solothurner Zeitung November 2018, honorary doctorate for Guido Fluri