Hermann Lei (politician, 1937)

Hermann Lei (born April 25, 1937 in Berg TG ) is a Swiss historian , seminar teacher and politician .

Life

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Lei was born as the son of Hermann Lei and Hedwig, b. Swiss born from Arbon in Berg. He spent his youth in Berg, where he also attended primary and secondary school. In 1952 he moved with his family to Weinfelden . From 1953 to 1957 he attended the Kreuzlingen teacher training college and from 1957 to 1962 studied history and German at the University of Zurich . He completed his university studies in 1962 with a dissertation on the Thurgau court rulers in the 18th century with Leonhard von Muralt . In 1963 he was elected as a history teacher at the Kreuzlingen teacher training college, a position he held until 1983. In 1969 he married Barbara Baudenbacher von Murten. The marriage resulted in two children: daughter Helene was born in 1970 and son Hermann in 1972 .

Hermann Lei began to be politically active early on. In accordance with his liberal-conservative sentiments, he joined the FDP , whose local party Weinfelden he chaired from 1969 to 1971. From 1971 to 1983 he was a member of the local parliament, which he presided over once, and was also the school president of Weinfelden. During his term of office the expansion of the vocational training center and the secondary school in Weinfelden fell. In 1983 he was elected mayor of Weinfelden, an office he held until 1992. According to his own statements, during this time Hermann Lei was mainly involved in the zoning plan for the industrial area, the design plan for the Rössli / Felsen area and the regulations on the land credit account. During his term of office the restoration of the Weinfeld town hall and in 1991 the festivities for the seven hundredth anniversary of the Swiss Confederation also fell.

After Hermann Lei had been a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Thurgau from 1984 to 1992 , from 1986 to 1992 as parliamentary group leader, he was elected to the Government Council of the Canton of Thurgau on February 16, 1992 . He initially took over the Department of Justice and Social Affairs and in 1994 switched to his preferred department for Home Affairs and Economics. Here he campaigned primarily for the promotion of public transport as well as for Thurgau as a business location. He promoted agriculture, among other things, by expanding the Arenenberg Agricultural School. In 1995/96, 1998/99 and 2001/02 he was also President of the Government Council. In 2002 Hermann Lei resigned his mandate as a member of the government and retired into private life. He had been blamed for the crisis and the collapse of the Mittelthurgau Railway, whose expansion course he had supported as Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Hermann Lei was, among other things, administrative board member of Axpo Holding AG, president of the cantonal directors of transport, member of the conference of cantons, board member and secretary of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , member of the International Lake Constance Conference , vice-president of the «Thurgauer Kulturstiftung Ottoberg» and Board member of the Thurgau section of the Red Cross. In the military he reached the degree of major and was president of the officers' society in Weinfelden.

Fonts (selection)

• The Thurgau jurisdiction in the 18th century. An example of cooperative freedom in a common rule of the Old Confederation. (= Thurgauian contributions to patriotic history , issue 99). Huber, Frauenfeld 1962 (= Diss. Phil. I).
• The social conditions. In: Albert Schoop (Ed.): Economic history of the Canton of Thurgau. Weinfelden 1971, pp. 293-322.
• Joseph Anderwert, 1767–1841. In: Great administrators of Switzerland. In connection with Karl S. Bader and Walter Müller ed. by Pius Bischofberger and Bruno Schmid. Solothurn 1975, pp. 114-120.
• The Thurgau Cantonal Officers Society. In: 175 Years of the Swiss Officers Society. Festschrift for the 175th anniversary. Zurich 2008, pp. 130-134.

literature

• Hermann Lei spoke to CH 91. In: Thurgauer Zeitung (TZ) , September 14, 1990, p. 8.
• Weinfelder's development shaped. In: TZ , May 22, 1992, p. 3.
• Lei: "Leave scope for creativity". In: TZ , March 1, 1997, p. 3.
• Canton finances are restructured. In: TZ , May 22, 2002, p. 3.
• Lei: There was no bitterness. In: TZ , August 17, 2006, p. 2.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 100 years of the Mittelthurgau Railway - a nostalgic anniversary. seemoz.ch, accessed on February 23, 2016.
2. ↑ Harald Derschka : The association for the history of Lake Constance and its surroundings. A look back at one hundred and fifty years of club history 1868–2018. In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 136, 2018, pp. 1–303, here: p. 222.