Heidi Z'graggen

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Heidi Z'graggen (2019)

Heidi Z'graggen (born February 1, 1966 ) is a Swiss politician ( CVP ) in the canton of Uri .

Professional career

Z'graggen is a trained primary school teacher (teacher diploma in Rickenbach ) and taught in Silenen . In addition to teaching at all levels of primary school in the canton of Uri, she studied political science (minor subjects in business administration and history) at the universities of Bern and Geneva . After completing her degree, she worked at the University of Bern as a research assistant and received her doctorate in 2008 on the subject of the professionalization of parliaments in historical and international comparison to Dr. rer. soc. From 2002–2004 she also taught economics and political science at a private business school in Bern. In 2004 she was elected to the government council of the canton of Uri and took over the judiciary there. She was re-elected to this post in the 2008, 2012 and 2016 renewal elections.

At the beginning of 2010, Z'graggen lost to the then non-party Markus Stadler in a replacement election for the Council of States . On October 18, 2018, Z'graggen announced that he would run for the Federal Council in the replacement elections on December 5, 2018 . On November 16, Z'graggen was nominated as a Federal Council candidate alongside Viola Amherd by the CVP, but was defeated by Amherd in the first ballot. In the parliamentary elections in 2019 Z'graggen was elected to the Senate.

politics

Before her election to the government council, she held the following political mandates:

  • 2000: Member of the electoral committee of the CVP cantonal party
  • 2000–2005: President of the Cantonal Party; Member of the central board

Activity as government councilor:

  • 2004 – today: Head of the Justice Directorate with the following areas: legal service of the canton of Uri, complaints service of the canton of Uri, penal system, commercial register, civil status register, land register, municipalities, administrative responsibility for the courts and the public prosecutor's office, spatial development, building permits, nature and homeland protection
  • 2012–2014: Popular election for the State Governor (Vice President of the Government Council)
  • 2014–2016: Popular election for Mrs. Landammann (President of the Government Council)

Representative of the Canton of Uri in intercantonal bodies:

  • Since 2016: Governing body of the Central Switzerland Intergovernmental Conference (ZRK)
  • 2016–2017: President of the Central Committee
  • Since 2014: Representative of the central Swiss cantons in the leading committee of the Conference of Cantonal Governments; Member of several inter-cantonal conferences (conference of police and judicial directors; conference of building and environmental directors, prison concordat north-west and central Switzerland)
  • Since 2005: Member of the Board of Directors of Centralschweizer Kraftwerke AG
  • Since 2018: President of the Federal Nature and Heritage Protection Commission (ENHK, election by the Federal Council)

Political secondary positions:

  • Member of the Central Presidium of the CVP

Private

Z'graggen is entitled to live in Gurtnellen and lives in Erstfeld . She is in a relationship with SVP politician and entrepreneur Bruno Dobler .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erich Aschwanden: Heidi Z'graggen - the pioneer for Samih Sawiris . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 18, 2018 ( nzz.ch [accessed October 19, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Raphaela Birrer, Markus Häfliger, Christoph Lenz: Amherd and Z'graggen triumphed so devastatingly . In: Tagesanzeiger . ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on November 17, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Z'graggen, Heidi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (CVP)
DATE OF BIRTH 1st February 1966