Guido Fluri

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

Simon Christen: SRF Reporter (TV report) "The fairy-tale rise of Mr. Fluri". Video in: Swiss television from October 12, 2014 ( online, 22 minutes )

Web links

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Fluri, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	July 10, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Olten

[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