Hans Thalmann (politician)

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Portrait of Hans Thalmann, former Mayor of Uster (1986–1998).

Hans Thalmann (born June 18, 1941. Abbreviation: HTH) was the non-party mayor of Uster from 1986 to 1998 , and previously he was president of the Protestant Reformed parish of Uster from 1974 to 1986 - both of which were part-time. His main job was the youth secretariat for the Pfäffikon district of Zurich. Since 1998 he has been developing and leading networking and cultural projects, primarily in the Zurich Oberland.

origin

Hans Thalmann is a citizen of Sirnach TG, where his ancestors on his father's side lived from agriculture and homework in the hamlet of Wiezikon . His grandfather Julius became a post office administrator in Uster and married Barbara Bebie, the daughter of a department head under " Spinnerkönig Kunz ". His father Paul was the younger of two sons and graduated from the ETH Zurich as a qualified electrical engineer.

His maternal grandmother, Albertine Hegetschweiler, came from a large family of cloth merchants in Ottenbach ZH and trained as a hat maker. Her husband Gustav Zschokke, a grandson of the writer Heinrich Zschokke , was a textile merchant and was appointed to Uster by his childhood friend Jakob Heusser-Staub at the age of 60 to manage his foundation. Thalmann's mother Clara Elisabeth was the youngest of three children and became a housekeeping teacher.

Hans Thalmann's parents married in 1930 in the middle of the global economic crisis . His father became unemployed and opened an electrical installation company in Uster in 1931 (today EKZ Eltop Uster ).

Career

As the youngest child and only boy after four girls, it was clear that Hans Thalmann would one day take over the family business. That is why he completed an electrician apprenticeship at the Oerlikon MFO machine factory - now ABB . In addition, he was involved in a church youth group, an amateur cabaret and under the abbreviation HTH as a weather report and glossary writer for the Uster gazette .

On his second educational path and as a student trainee, Hans Thalmann received his doctorate in education and philosophy from the University of Zurich in 1973 with the dissertation “Concepts of youth and leisure centers in the Canton of Zurich”. The impetus for this was his part-time work as the first manager of the Uster youth and leisure center - today frjz. During his two-year assistant at the chair for social education in Zurich, Hans Thalmann helped set up the basic animator course. This resulted in training in socio-cultural animation at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences.

Act

As the youth secretary of the Pfäffikon ZH district , Hans Thalmann set up a couples counseling service supported by churches and parishes, from which today's couples counseling and mediation service for the Canton of Zurich emerged. Together with his professional colleagues, he founded the Zürcher Oberland Drug Issues Association in 1980, which since then has been responsible for the necessary drug aid institutions. B. the addiction prevention Zürcher Oberland. From 2007, as part of a reorganization, the focus was on prevention in the Zurich Oberland. From 2007, in addition to the addiction prevention center, the Zurich Oberland violence prevention center was added. The association changed its name to Association for Prevention and Drug Issues Zürcher Oberland.

Also in 1980, the social-educational residential group Zürcher Oberland "Bachstei" set up by Thalmann began operations. After the youth riots of 1980 , the Zurich government councilor appointed Thalmann to the ad hoc commission that developed the report “Possibilities and limits of a cantonal youth policy”.

As mayor of Uster, Thalmann drove the urban development of the former industrial village. In 1998 Uster received the Wakker Prize for this . Thalmann's efforts to move the provisional canton school in Dübendorf to Uster were initially unsuccessful. Only when he launched the idea of ​​an education center with a vocational school and high school did things slowly move forward. In 2019, a new building will be inaugurated in Uster, which unites the vocational school, the cantonal school and higher vocational training under one roof. In the book "Uster, for example - new ways of political leadership", Thalmann critically traces his policy of openness and participation.

As an independent management consultant in politics and culture, Hans Thalmann led the development of the “Art and Sports School Zürcher Oberland”, which opened in 2006. In 2008, as administrator of the Pfäffikon School in Zurich, he overcame a severe management crisis. The “Kulturerbe Zürcher Oberland” project, which he started in 2010, supports the efforts of the Zurich Oberland Region Association to give the somewhat faceless agglomeration east of Zurich a more profile. Since 2016, association communities have been paying recurring contributions to Zürioberland Kultur. The project “1816 - the year without a summer”, led by Thalmann, in which the region commemorated the hunger crisis 200 years ago in 2016, also contributed to this. The topic is being pursued by the “Lehrblätz Bläsihof” association.

family

Hans Thalmann has been married to kindergarten teacher Käthi Langenegger since 1964 and has ten children. The illness of three children with Friedreich's ataxia brought him to the Swiss Society for Muscle Sick People (now the Swiss Muscle Society). From 2001 to 2009 he was its president. Under him, the neuromuscular muscle centers, the Myosuisse network and the Chair for Neuromuscular Diseases Basel were created in seven Swiss hospitals. The eldest daughter Barbara Thamann was elected Mayor of Uster in 2018. The family owns the Soppahüsli in St. Antönien, which arose from the construction office created in 1954 for the avalanche barriers.

literature

  • Hans Thalmann: Uster, for example. New ways of political leadership . Paul Haupt, Bern 1999, ISBN 3-258-06077-0 .
  • Hans Thalmann: Concepts for youth and leisure centers in the canton of Zurich . Dissertation University of Zurich, Zurich 1974.
  • Kaspar Thalmann: Or give up the valley. The avalanche protection structures of St. Antönien . Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85881-478-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Platzspitz as a trigger for addiction prevention Zürcher Oberländer from November 11, 2014. Accessed on October 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ Zürioberland Kultur Review 2016 / Outlook 2017 Accessed on October 19, 2018.
  3. ↑ Züri Oberland culture, culture interpretation regulations, long history . Accessed on October 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ frjz - Uster leisure and youth center . Retrieved October 27, 2018.
  5. ↑ Charter of Sociocultural Animation . Retrieved October 27, 2018.
  6. ↑ Couple counseling and mediation of the Canton of Zurich Retrieved on October 24, 2018.
  7. ^ Regional addiction prevention center in the Zürcher Oberland: View on Addiction Uster, 2014, page 18. Accessed October 24, 2018.
  8. ^ Association for prevention and drug issues in the Zürcher Oberland . Retrieved July 11, 2019.
  9. ↑ Socio- educational residential group Uster.Retrieved on October 24, 2018.
  10. ↑ school management Kiss: History of Art and Sports School Examination Retrieved on October 24, 2018th
  11. ↑ Nina Santner: Just don't let anything burn anymore. In: Tages-Anzeiger , Zürcher Oberland edition, September 27, 2008, p. 72.
  12. ↑ Zürioberland Kultur.Retrieved October 24, 2018.
  13. ^ Association "Project 1816": Final report 1816 - the year without summer Bauma, February 15, 2017. Accessed on October 24, 2018.
  14. ↑ club project Bläsihof Accessed October 24, 2018th
  15. ↑ Erica Brühlmann-Jecklin: 40 Years of the Swiss Muscle Society. Zurich, 5th edition, 2015, p. 39ff. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
  16. ↑ Kaspar Thalmann: Or give up the valley. The avalanche protection structures of St. Antönien . Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-85881-478-4 , pp. 14 and 127.
personal data
SURNAME Thalmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Independent mayor of Uster
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1941