Hugo Wick

Hugo Wick in the National Council (1987)

Hugo Ernst Wick (born September 12, 1935 in Basel ; entitled to live there ) is a Swiss politician ( CVP ) and doctor.

Life and work

Hugo Wick is a son of Franz Joseph, host of the Lällenkönig restaurant in Basel, and Martha Pauline née Gabriel. He studied medicine at the University of Basel (state examination in 1960, Dr. med. 1961) and from 1969 to 1970 completed additional studies in biochemistry in London . From 1961 to 1962 he worked at the Nirmala Hospital in Kerala , India , from 1962 to 1963 employee of the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Basel, from 1963 to 1998 assistant doctor , senior physician and chief physician for congenital metabolic diseases at theUniversity Children's Hospital Basel .

Wick married a doctor's daughter in 1963 and has four grown children. He lives in Basel.

politics

Hugo Wick was President of the CVP Basel from 1978 to 1984 and a member of the Presidium of CVP Switzerland from 1987 to 2001. From 1972 to 1983 and from 1988 to 1991 he was Basel Grand Council (1991 President), from 1983 to 1987 and from 1991 to 1995 National Council and from 2000 to 2005 Basel Constitutional Council (from 2003 to 2004 President).

In 1986, Hugo Wick was the first to submit a parliamentary proposal to the Swiss parliament on man-made climate change . He wrote back then: “By burning coal, crude oil and natural gas as well as by clearing large forest areas, especially in the tropics, the concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has been increasing exponentially for decades. Numerous climate researchers fear that this increase in CO2 could lead to an actual climate catastrophe or climate revolution, with unforeseeable consequences for our environment. "

From 1981 to 1995 he was a member of the board of trustees of the University of Basel, Vice President of the International Association for Maternal and Neonatal Health .

In the military he held the rank of major .

literature

• Seraina Gartmann, Jan Pagotto-Uebelhart: Hugo Wick. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 29, 2013 .

Web links

• Hugo Wick on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Hugo Wick in a TV interview on drug policy (in two parts), Rundschau May 11, 1994

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guest comment. In: OnlineReports . October 8, 2005, accessed September 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ 86,586 Interpellation Wick. Increase in CO2 in the atmosphere (PDF)

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