Hanspeter Thür

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Hanspeter Thür in 1992 in the National Council Chamber

Hanspeter Thür (born May 31, 1949 in Staad SG ) is a Swiss lawyer and politician.

job

Thür studied law at the University of Basel and completed his studies with a licentiate in both rights (lic. Iur.). After a court internship, he worked as a lawyer with offices in Aarau and Zurich . In 2000 he began an extra-occupational postgraduate course in business, administrative and environmental mediation at the University of Applied Sciences in Baden.

In 2001, Thür was elected Federal Data Protection Commissioner by the Federal Council. He succeeded Odilo Guntern , who resigned on June 30, 2001. Since July 1, 2006, the official title has been "Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner".

Thür is a vehement defender of banking secrecy, which he sees not as the secret of the banks, but of the bank customers. In return, he criticizes the banks that have turned banking secrecy into tax evasion secrets and turned it into a business model. In an interview with the Swiss Month magazine in May 2012, Thür said: “In the end, the data protection officer has to defend banking secrecy against the banks!”

Thür warns of a global surveillance state, which is made possible by the fact that private-sector, data-trading companies and intelligence services such as the NSA join forces: "The purpose of alleged security justifies the means of consistent suspicion."

Thür hosted the International Conference of Commissioners for Data Protection and the Protection of Privacy from September 14 to 16, 2005 in Montreux .

At the end of November 2015, Thür retired from office.

politics

National Council

In 1985 he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau and in 1987 to the National Council . From 1991 to 1994 he was chairman of the Green parliamentary group in the Bundestag and from 1995 to 1997 President of the Swiss Green Party . Thür was at times a member of the foreign policy commission and the pardon commission. His 37 proposals in parliament dealt with a wide range of topics such as finance, transport, taxes, energy and spatial planning. In February 1999 he resigned from the National Council.

Aarau City Council

In March 2017 it was announced that Thür would like to run for the vice-presidency of the city of Aarau . After his election, he took over the structural engineering and spatial planning department in 2018.

engagement

Hanspeter Thür is coordinator for the “Alte Reithalle” project of the city of Aarau and president of Szenaario, the association that supports the Tuchlaube Theater. Thür is also a member of the cantonal commission for cultural issues and advises the Aargau government council on cultural policy issues. Since 2009 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Langenbruck Eco Center. In 1997 and 1998 he was an election observer in Bosnia, Montenegro and Ukraine.

Private

Thür lives in Aarau, is married and has a grown daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss Month , May 2012
  2. ↑ You too are suspicious! In: Swiss Month , November 2013.
  3. ↑ Federal Council appoints Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner. In: admin.ch from November 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ Federal Parliament database. Retrieved April 14, 2017 .
  5. ^ Find Vista Curia. Retrieved on April 14, 2017 (German).
  6. ↑ a b Greens before coup: Ex-data protectionist Hanspeter Thür toying with political comeback . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . March 16, 2017 ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed April 14, 2017]).
  7. ↑ New City Councilor Thür invested 25,000 francs - he didn't want a Facebook page . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed on July 1, 2018]).
  8. ↑ City Council. Retrieved July 1, 2018 .
  9. ↑ 5:30 p.m. Regional Journal Aargau Solothurn: From data protection officer to cultural manager: Hanspeter Thür. February 12, 2016, accessed on April 14, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Thür, Hanspeter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and data protection expert
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Staad SG