Hansjörg Walter

Hansjörg Walter

Hansjörg Walter (born February 5, 1951 in Frauenfeld ) is a Swiss politician ( SVP ) and was President of the Swiss Farmers' Association from 2000 to 2012 . In the 2011/12 year of office he was President of the National Council .

Life

Hansjörg Walter graduated from the agricultural school Strickhof in the canton of Zurich and completed various further training courses in the agricultural and commercial areas. He has been a master farmer since 1983 and in 1985 took over the "Greuthof" near Wängi from his parents . He is married and has three grown children.

He started his political career in 1985 as Vice President of the Wängi elementary school, which he presided over from 1993 to 2000. From 1995 to 2002 he was a local councilor in Wängi, and in 1992 he was elected to the grand council . In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 1999 he was elected to the National Council and resigned as a cantonal councilor. In the parliamentary elections in 2003 , 2007 , 2011 and 2015 , he was re-elected with the second highest number of votes on the Thurgau SVP list.

In December 2008, Hansjörg Walter was ported as a demolition candidate in the Federal Council election . In the third ballot he was defeated by only one vote to the official SVP candidate Ueli Maurer . Due to pressure from the factions of his party, Walter declared before the first ballot that he would reject any election. On December 5, 2011, Walter was elected President of the National Council for the 2011/2012 parliamentary year. His successor in parliamentary year 2012/2013 was Maya Graf ( GPS ), who is also a farmer.

As a result of Bruno Zuppiger's candidacy for a seat in the Federal Council, Walter was nominated by the SVP as a candidate for the Federal Council elections on December 14, 2011 . After Walter was unsuccessful in the ballot against the incumbent Federal Councilor Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf , he did not run in the subsequent ballots.

From 2000 to 2012 Walter was President of the Swiss Farmers Association. His successor was Markus Ritter .

In November 2017, he resigned as a member of the National Council, and Diana Gutjahr took up his position .

Web links

• Hansjörg Walter on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Hansjörg Walter's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Raaflaub: An exciting Federal Council election. In: swissinfo. December 10, 2008, accessed September 20, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Heidi Gmür: The party leadership must get away from the system of political blackmail. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (online). December 14, 2008, accessed September 30, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Switzerland has new council presidents. In: Basler Zeitung. December 5, 2011, accessed December 5, 2011 . 
4. ↑ Hansjörg Walter should fix it for the SVP. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from December 8, 2011
5. ↑ Peter Blunschi: The SVP's pawn sacrifice. In: 20 minutes from December 14, 2011
6. ↑ Christine Wanner: The top farmer resigns. drs.ch, November 21, 2012
7. ^ Adoption by the President of the National Council. In: parlament.ch. Retrieved December 8, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger - SVP National Councilor Hansjörg Walter resigns after 18 years , accessed on October 5, 2017