Heidi Hanselmann

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Heidi Hanselmann (born April 12, 1961 in Rorschacherberg ) is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party . She has been a councilor for the canton of St. Gallen since 2004 and heads the health department. In the years 2008/09, 2014/2015 and 2019/2020 she was district president . On October 15, 2019, she announced her resignation from the government at the end of May 2020.

biography

Hanselmann was born in 1961 in Rorschacherberg as the youngest child of a police officer and a housewife. She grew up in St. Gallen and then spent a few years in Rapperswil . After the third grade of primary school , she moved to St. Margrethen . Hanselmann completed the teacher training course at the canton school in Heerbrugg and was then a primary school teacher at the primary school in Au for six years . In 1992 Hanselmann graduated from the University of Curative Education in Zurich with a degree in speech therapy .

Hanselmann lives in Walenstadt and has the citizenship of Sennwald .

Political career

After joining the Social Democratic Party in 1996, Hanselmann was directly elected to the Cantonal Council of St. Gallen. As a teacher in the Cantonal Council, Hanselmann mainly dealt with educational issues. In 2004 Hanselmann was elected to the government , of which she was president in 2008/09, 2014/2015 and 2019/2020. Its greatest political success was the referendum won in November 2014, with which the people of St. Gallen clearly approved Hanselmann's hospital policy and the necessary funding of almost one billion francs. From 2016 to 2019 she was Vice-President of the Conference of Cantonal Health Directors (GDK), which she took over as President on May 1, 2019.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidi Hanselmann has enough articles on srf.ch from October 15, 2019
  2. ↑ The ballot box on November 30, 2014, cantonal votes in the archive on sg.ch
  3. ↑ Heidi Hanselmann, new GDK President , press release on gdk-cds.ch from April 11, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hanselmann, Heidi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Rorschacherberg