Hanna Muralt Müller

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Hanna Muralt Müller (born November 16, 1947 in Zollbrück , Canton of Bern ) is a former Swiss federal employee. From 1991 to 2005 she was Vice Chancellor of Switzerland and the first woman in this position. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP).

As Vice Chancellor, Hanna Muralt Müller first supported Federal Chancellor François Couchepin , then Federal Chancellor Annemarie Huber-Hotz . In this function she was a member of the three-person management of the Federal Chancellery and headed several sections and services, including those for Federal Council affairs, legal issues and official publications. She took part in all Federal Council meetings and was responsible for drafting the resolutions. In addition, she initiated several projects in the field of e-government.

biography

Hanna Muralt Müller grew up as the third child with five siblings in Zollbrück (municipality of Lauperswil , Emmental ). Her parents ran a mechanical workshop. During the four-year training at the State Teachers' Seminar in Thun , she acquired the teaching certificate and then worked for three years in the school service. After studying history and linguistics at the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Bern (Licentiate 1976), she worked as a scientific secretary of an extra-parliamentary commission of the Canton of Bern on the subject of regional formation and at the same time wrote an interdisciplinary dissertation entitled “Region. Utopia or Reality? " (PhD 1983). This was followed by a position as adjunct in what was then the Federal Office for Education and Science (today integrated in the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation). In 1987 she moved to the executive secretariat of Federal Chancellor Walter Buser . After his resignation in 1991, the Federal Assembly elected the then Vice Chancellor François Couchepin as his successor and Hanna Muralt Müller was appointed Vice Chancellor by the Federal Council.

Vice Chancellor

The new technologies increasingly shaped the work in the Federal Chancellery. During the years under Chancellor François Couchepin, Hanna Muralt Müller dealt in detail with the legal enactments and their conversion from paper to electronic publication, which required a reorganization of the development process from the first draft to the decision-making in the Federal Council. From 1998 the Systematic Legal Collection and the Official Collection were available on the Internet, from 1999 also the Federal Gazette. Together with Prof. Dr. Thomas Koller initiated a new series of conferences for Hanna Muralt Müller and contributed to the publication of the first three conference publications (2000, 2001, 2002). Issues related to the dynamic development of legal informatics and informatics law were discussed under the title “Conference for IT and Law”.

Immediately after Chancellor Annemarie Huber-Hotz took office (at the beginning of 2000), Hanna Muralt Müller devoted herself to two further projects. The first involved setting up a platform for contacting authorities, structured according to life situations and across all three levels of government - federal, cantons and municipalities. The second concerned electronic voting (e-voting) and pilot projects in then three different cantons ( Geneva , Neuchâtel and Zurich ).

Political activities

Hanna Muralt Müller was already politically active during her studies. She worked on the board of the student body at the University of Bern and then also on the board of the Swiss student body (1976–1978). In 1976 she became a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP). In the 1999 Federal Council election (general election of the Federal Council, election of the Federal Chancellor), she was the SP's candidate for the office of Federal Chancellor. She always remained connected to her party and was involved in various SP committees at the national level for the digital transformation in education.

Work after her resignation

After her resignation as Vice Chancellor in the summer of 2005, Hanna Muralt Müller worked as a special representative for international questions in the field of e-government . She followed the activities within the EU and OECD , conveyed numerous impulses both internally and externally, namely for the first version of the Swiss e-government strategy. At the request of the OECD, she was involved in the preparation of a study on e-government in Belgium and, on behalf of the Chancellor, organized a meeting of the heads of the government centers of the OECD member states in Bern in autumn 2007.

At the beginning of 2006, she took over the presidency of the Swiss Foundation for Audiovisual Education (SSAB). After her retirement she devoted herself fully to building up the SSAB network on a voluntary basis in order to advance digitization in education at all levels. She resigned from the Presidium in 2012 to devote herself to the Foundation's growing strategic and operational tasks as Vice President and Delegate for the SSAB network. Since the foundation had insufficient financial resources and was therefore unable to survive, Hanna Muralt Müller pursued the goal for years of ensuring the continuation of the activities she initiated through cooperation outside the foundation (continuation of the annual conference, exchange of innovative digitization projects across language barriers away). This finally succeeded, so that the Federal Foundation Supervisory Authority was able to repeal the SSAB in the course of 2019. The SSAB website was then redesigned into an archive page so that important materials from SSAB activities could continue to be made available.

Since then, Hanna Muralt Müller has continued to volunteer for follow-up projects.

Private

Hanna Muralt Müller is married to Jürg Müller, a journalist. The couple is childless. In addition to German, she also speaks French, Italian and English.

She kept her single name when she married. According to marriage law at the time, she could add the name of her husband without a hyphen, which made it clear that this double name was not an alliance name . Her husband chose the usual hyphenated alliance name (Jürg Müller-Muralt).

The family name Muralt with its hometown of Trub can be distinguished from the noble family of Muralt , although they both have common roots (descendants of religious refugees from Muralto, Ticino, expelled in 1555 in the course of the Counter Reformation).

Publications

  • Region - Utopia or Reality? An interdisciplinary study on regionalization efforts in the canton of Bern, in: Erich Gruner, Peter Gilg, Beat Junker: Helvetica Politica. Dissertation, Bern, 1983. ISBN 3-7165-0459-9
  • Electronic publication of legal enactments as the first step towards e-government - new challenges for the Federal Chancellery and the State Chancellery, in: Anniversary publication “100 Years of the Swiss Conference of State Scribers”, State Chancellery - staff unit at the center of the decision-making process . Location determination and outlook on the occasion of the anniversary, State Chancellery Graubünden, August 2000, pp. 136–151.
  • E-government as a new challenge, in: Gisler, Michael; Spahni, Dieter (Ed.), EGovernment. A location determination, Bern, 2001, pp. 3–11. ISBN 3-258-06268-4
  • Guichet virtuel and e-voting - joint works by the federal government, cantons and municipalities, in: Hanna Muralt Müller, Thomas Koller (ed.), 2000 Conference for Informatics & Law, Bern 2001, pp. 11–28. ISBN 3-7272-2160-7
  • Electronic voting within the framework of overarching strategies of the Federal Council, in: Hanna Muralt Müller, Andreas Auer, Thomas Koller (Eds.), E-Voting. Conference 2002 for Computer Science & Law, Bern 2003, pp. 13–28. ISBN 3-7272-2162-3
  • E-voting: Switzerland's Policies and Projects, in: E-Government. Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the European Association of Legislation (EAL) in Athens (Greece), November 28th - 29th, 2002, edited by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Karpen, vol. 8, European Association of Legislation (EAL), Baden-Baden 2005. ISBN 3-8329-1079-4
  • Teaching and learning from the activities of archives and museums, in: Audiovisual archives make school. Les archives audiovisual font école, Colloque Memoriav / Colloquium 2007, Baden 2008, pp. 41–47. ISBN 978-3-03919-107-9
  • A network as an answer to new challenges, in: Gehört - Gesehen / Heard - Seen. Audiovisual heritage and science. The Uses of Digitized Archives for the Sciences, Kurt Deggeller, Ursula Ganz-Blättler, Ruth Hungerbühler (eds.), Baden / Lugano 2007, pp. 96–101. ISBN 978-3-03919-062-1
  • Networks as a living learning organization, in: Media in Education. Media competence and organizational development, Per Bergamin, Gerhard Pfander (Ed.), Bern 2007, pp. 145–168. ISBN 978-3-03905-411-4
  • New culture of evaluating knowledge. Open Source Software, Open Access and Open Educational Resources, in: Open Educational Content (OER). Sharing knowledge or a culture of free education? Per Bergamin, Hanna Muralt Müller, Christian Filk (eds.), Bern 2009, pp. 39–71. ISBN 978-3-03905-494-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanna Muralt: Region - Utopia or Reality? In: Erich Gruner, Peter Gilg, Beat Junker (eds.): Helvetica Politica . Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7165-0459-9 .
  2. ↑ Hanna Muralt Müller, Thomas Koller (Ed.): 2001 Conference for Computer Science and Law . Bern 2002, ISBN 978-3-7272-2161-3 .
  3. ^ Hanna Muralt Müller, Andreas Auer, Thomas Koller (eds.): E-Voting . Conference 2002 for Computer Science and Law. Bern 2003, ISBN 3-7272-2162-3 .
  4. ↑ Conference for Computer Science and Law. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
  5. ↑ ch.ch. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
  6. ^ Hanna Muralt Müller: E-Voting: Switzerland's Policies and Projects . In: Ulrich Karpen (Ed.): E-Government. Proceedings of the Fifth Congress of the European Association of Legislation (EAL) in Athens (Greece), November 28th - 29th, 2002 . tape 8 . Baden-Baden 2005, ISBN 978-3-8329-1079-2 .
  7. ↑ E-Government Switzerland. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
  8. ^ Swiss Foundation for Audiovisual Educational Offers. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Muralt Müller, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss officials
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zollbrück