Heiner Studer
Heiner Studer (born May 16, 1949 in Baden , Canton Aargau ) is a Swiss politician ( EPP ).
biography
Heiner Studer grew up in Wettingen up, made in 1969, the trade baccalaureate and began his career in a political environment: in 1970 he became General Secretary of the EPP, 1976 Central Secretary of the Swiss Federation of Protestant workers. In 1984 he became secretary of the Blue Cross of German-speaking Switzerland and from 1984 to 2001 its central secretary and managing director.
At the same time, he always held political offices: from 1973 to 1998 he was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau ( legislature ), where in 1997, at the age of 48, he became the youngest president (senior citizen) in parliamentary history. At the same time, he was a member of the residents' council (legislative) of the Wettingen community from 1974 to 1985, was elected to the executive in 1986 and was vice-president there from 1994 to 2013 (part-time deputy mayor). In the 1999 elections he was elected to the National Council for the Evangelical People's Party , where he was a member of the Foreign Policy Commission and the Commission for Science, Education and Culture. On the occasion of national elections in 2007 he was voted out. From 2008 to 2014 he was President of EPP Switzerland.
Heiner Studer grew up in a Methodist family and is a lay preacher of both the Reformed and the Evangelical Methodist Church . As a cantonal parliamentarian, he was known for consistently wearing shorts in the summer. This contradicts the National Council's clothing code, which is why Studer wore trousers several times in the National Council, the legs of which could be zipped off as soon as he left the Federal Palace. This was reported several times in the national press.
In 2010 he was involved in founding the civil service association CIVIVA .
Heiner Studer is married to a native Norwegian and has three grown daughters. His daughter Lilian Studer (* 1977) has been a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau since 2002, also for the Evangelical People's Party.
publication
- Politicians are people too. From everyday interpersonal relationships in the Federal Palace . Blaukreuz-Verlag Bern 2009, ISBN 978-3-85580-463-4 .
Web links
- Website by Heiner Studer
- Contemporary history in Aargau: Heiner Studer, politician , accessed on April 5, 2020.
- Heiner Studer on the website of the Federal Assembly
- Political profile of Heiner Studer (voting behavior in the National Council, 46th legislature, 1999–2003) ( Memento from January 1, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Theo Kunz: Minorities can change something. National Council portrait Heiner Studer, the EPP politician, or: Making the best of a small parliamentary group. Aargauer Zeitung, September 24, 2003, accessed on November 28, 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Higher hurdle for community service | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed June 18, 2020]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Studer, Heiner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baden , Canton Aargau, Switzerland |