Hans-Peter Tschudi

Hans-Peter Tschudi

Hans-Peter Tschudi (born October 22, 1913 in Basel ; † September 30, 2002 there ; entitled to live there and in Schwanden GL ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ) from the canton of Basel-Stadt . As Federal Councilor , he was Interior Minister and twice held the office of Federal President .

Life

Federal Councilor Willy Spühler , National Councilor Rudolf Welter and Federal Councilor Hans-Peter Tschudi (from left to right)

Hans-Peter Tschudi (second from left) at the Federal Council trip in 1972 with his Federal Council colleagues

Hans-Peter Tschudi was born in Basel in 1913 as the first of two sons of the realteacher and SP Grand Councilor Robert Tschudi . He comes from an old noble family in Glarus. Tschudi was therefore entitled to reside in Schwanden and Basel . He grew up in Basel, where he attended the humanistic grammar school and passed his Matura in 1932. He then studied law at the University of Basel and at the Sorbonne in Paris . In 1938 the Basel government council elected him trade inspector, and in 1952 he became associate professor for labor and social security law at the University of Basel.

His political career took him to the Grand Council in 1944 , to the Government Council in 1953 , to the Council of States in 1956 and finally to the Federal Council in 1959 . After his tenure as Federal Councilor, he resumed teaching as a professor (until 1983) and was involved in various non-profit or humanitarian organizations, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross .

Grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

From 1952 Hans-Peter Tschudi was with the pharmacist and physician Irma Tschudi, b. Steiner , married. His younger brother was the first industrial pastor in Basel, Felix Tschudi . His son Hans Martin Tschudi became a member of the government of the Canton of Basel-Stadt.

After his death, a park in the St. Johann district of Basel was named after him.

Work as a Federal Councilor

On December 17, 1959, the SP proposed Walther Bringolf, National Councilor from Schaffhausen, for election to the Federal Council , when the magic formula was justified . Instead, Hans-Peter Tschudi was elected in the third ballot because he was considered more moderate. He resigned on December 31, 1973. During his tenure, Hans Peter Tschudi headed the Department of the Interior . He was Federal President in 1965 and 1970 and Vice President in 1964 and 1969.

Tschudi is often referred to as the "father of the AHV " because he significantly expanded the AHV introduced after a referendum in 1947 under Federal Councilor Walther Stampfli . Tschudi was responsible for important further developments such as the three-pillar system (1972) and the supplementary services (1965). He also campaigned strongly for university funding. During his tenure, the federal government took over the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne .

His quick way of working became known under the catchphrase "Tschudi-Tempo".

Election results in the Federal Assembly

• 1959: Election to the Federal Council with 129 votes (absolute majority: 116 votes)
• 1963: Re-election as Federal Council with 190 votes (absolute majority: 103 votes)
• 1963: Elected Vice President of the Federal Council with 161 votes (absolute majority: 92 votes)
• 1964: Election to the Federal President with 200 votes (absolute majority: 105 votes)
• 1967: Re-election as Federal Council with 171 votes (absolute majority: 96 votes)
• 1968: Election for Vice President of the Federal Council with 168 votes (absolute majority: 90 votes)
• 1969: Election to the Federal President with 213 votes (absolute majority: 108 votes)
• 1971: Re-election as Federal Council with 220 votes (absolute majority: 116 votes)

literature

• Bernard Degen : Hans-Peter Tschudi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Hans Peter Tschudi in History of Social Security in Switzerland
• Hans-Peter Tschudi in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Helmut Hubacher : The father of the AHV is dead. Hans Peter Tschudi (1913–2002). In: Basler Stadtbuch 2002 , pp. 121–122.

Web links

Commons : Hans-Peter Tschudi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans-Peter Tschudi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans-Peter Tschudi in the Dodis databaseof diplomatic documents in Switzerland
• Hans-Peter Tschudi in the archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives
• Hans-Peter Tschudi. In: admin.ch

predecessor	Office	successor
Giuseppe Lepori	Member of the Swiss Federal Council 1960–1973	Willi Ritschard