Jacqueline Fehr

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jacqueline Fehr (2017)
Jacqueline Fehr (2017)

Jacqueline Margrith Fehr (born June 1, 1963 in Wallisellen ; resident in Rüdlingen , Schaffhausen and Winterthur ) is a Swiss politician . She was National Councilor from 1998 to 2015 and Vice-President of SP Switzerland from 2008 to 2015 . On April 12, 2015, she was elected to the Zurich Government Council, where she heads the Justice and Home Affairs Directorate.

biography

Jacqueline Fehr grew up in simple circumstances in Elgg and Winterthur . She completed her education as a secondary school teacher for Phil. I at the University of Zurich and studied psychology , business administration and political science from 1991 to 1994 . In 2015 she completed an Executive Master of Public Administration at the University of Bern.

Fehr has two grown sons with Maurice Pedergnana , from whom she is divorced. She lives in Winterthur.

politics

For the SP , she was on the Winterthur City Council from 1990 to 1992 , and on the Zurich Cantonal Council from 1991 to 1998 . In 1998 she moved up to the National Council , where she was well re-elected in the 1999 , 2003 , 2007 and 2011 elections. In the National Council, she was active in the Commission for Transport and Telecommunications (KVF), in the Commission for Social Security and Health (SGK), in the Business Review Commission (GPK), in the Pardon Commission (BeK) and in the Foreign Policy Commission (APK).

In the parliamentarian rating of the SonntagsZeitung, she has been among the top five since 2007 and was named the most influential person in the Swiss parliament in 2009 . The choice was based on the fact that Fehr in the important committees of Transport and Social sit and by bringing successful their initiatives , because they have an excellent Netwerk and in everyday politics again the nonpartisan pragmatic approach looking for. Two main successes are mentioned: the introduction of supplementary benefits for families and the implementation of maternity insurance.

The maternity insurance, which the Federal Constitution provided for since 1945, came into force on July 1, 2005. The drivers were Pierre Triponez , President of the Swiss Trade Association, and Fehr, who pushed through the forged compromise even against strong resistance in their own party. Maternity insurance pays 80 percent wages for mothers in the first 14 weeks after the birth and is financed with wage percentages. In 2003, the financial aid for childcare places with supplementary families came into force, which go back to a parliamentary initiative by Fehr, with which she demanded kick-off funding for new day-care centers and day school structures in 2000.

Jacqueline Fehr repeatedly fought for the victims of compulsory welfare measures such as contract and institutionalized children as well as those forcibly adopted, castrated and sterilized to receive moral and financial compensation. In parliament she helped set up the group for compulsory welfare measures and she is on the initiative committee of the reparation initiative . From 2008 to 2015 Fehr was Vice President of SP Switzerland. In 2010 she was defeated by her nominated Simonetta Sommaruga as a candidate for election to the Federal Council . In 2012 she was surprisingly defeated by National Councilor Andy Tschümperlin in the election for the presidium of the SP parliamentary group. In the Zurich government council election on April 12, 2015, she was elected to the government council and resigned from the national council.

Professional Activities

From 1988 to 1994 Fehr taught as a secondary and specialist teacher in the Feldstrasse school building in District 4 of the city ​​of Zurich and was also a freelance journalist. After the birth of her first son, she worked in job sharing as a department secretary in the School and Sport Department in Winterthur. After moving up to the National Council, she worked as a freelance organizational worker, then as a project manager. In 2012 she founded the sole proprietorship Atelier Politique, which bundles her commitments and assignments, her board seats and posts.

From 2012 to 2015 she was a member of the Board of Directors of Energie 360 ​​° , formerly Erdgas Zürich AG ; since 2013 board member of the Swiss Mobiliar Cooperative . Jacqueline Fehr's Foundation Council President , the Foundation for Child Protection Switzerland , Vice President of Pro Familia Switzerland , she is a member of the Foundation Technopark Zurich the Pestalozzianum Foundation and represents the SP Switzerland on the board of Solidar Suisse . And she is on various advisory boards.

Since 2015, Fehr has headed the Justice and Home Affairs Directorate as a member of the government of the Canton of Zurich . In the first four years of her term of office, according to the legislative review, she advanced many key projects: In the canton of Zurich, for example, pre-trial detention was fundamentally realigned by concentrating the detention regime on actual investigative needs and relaxing it accordingly for many detainees. With the guiding principles of the government council, the canton of Zurich was the first canton to create a sound basis for the relationship between religion and state. Fehr has also campaigned for long-term securing of cultural funding and laid the foundations for this with a study by the University of St. Gallen . With the Communities 2030 project, she has also initiated a discussion about the future of the communities . In addition, with a comprehensive study assignment, she ensured that the background to the compulsory welfare measures in the canton of Zurich was researched.

Works

  • Luxury child? Proposals for a new family policy . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-280-05027-8 .
  • School with a future. A plea for a modern education system . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-280-05320-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government Councilor Jacqueline Fehr In: Website des Kantons Zürich, accessed on December 23, 2015
  2. ↑ a b «My interest in being the center of attention as a person is small!», Portrait by Tanja Polli. on: jacqueline-fehr.ch, accessed on February 8, 2015 (PDF)
  3. ^ A b Fehr Jacqueline, politician, national councilor, * 1963. in: winterthur-glossar, January 2015, accessed on February 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b c d CV - Jacqueline Fehr In: jacqueline-fehr.ch , accessed on November 21, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Marriage gone!" In: Blick from July 25, 2010, accessed on February 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b The official Federal Council candidates have been nominated. In: SWI swissinfo.ch of September 7, 2010, accessed on January 9, 2015.
  7. ↑ Biography In: parlament.ch, accessed on June 16, 2012
  8. ↑ a b “Die Netzwerkerin” In: SonntagsZeitung from July 5, 2009, quoted from http://www.netzwerk-future.ch, accessed on February 9, 2015. (PDF; 14.7 kB)
  9. ↑ Jacqueline Fehr (sp.) - Driving force in parliament. NZZ from September 6, 2010, accessed on February 9, 2015.
  10. ^ Maternity insurance and parental leave, in: Frauen Macht Geschichte. Women's policy and equality in Switzerland 2001–2013 / 14, 2014, edited by the Federal Commission for Women's Issues ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Constantin Seibt: Dangerous for the SP. Tages-Anzeiger of September 30, 2014, accessed February 9, 2015.
  12. ↑ Matthias Baer: With civil help to success. Jacqueline Fehr forges successful alliances. In: Tages-Anzeiger of July 2, 2005.
  13. ↑ Benefits and financing of maternity insurance, Federal Social Insurance Office, n.d. ( Memento from September 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Kick-off funding for childcare places in addition to families In: Federal Assembly website, no year, accessed on February 12, 2015.
  15. ^ The cantons and family policy. In: NZZ of October 17, 2003, accessed on February 9, 2015.
  16. ↑ Outsiders with a large lobby. In: Tages-Anzeiger of February 8, 2014, accessed on February 9, 2015.
  17. ↑ Home page of the parliamentary group for compulsory welfare measures , accessed on February 8, 2015.
  18. ↑ Call for founding , no year, source: Guido Fluri Foundation, accessed on February 9, 2015.
  19. ↑ SP nominates two bridge builders. In: NZZ of September 3, 2010, accessed on February 9, 2015.
  20. ↑ A tight decision in the SP. in: nzz.ch from February 17, 2012, accessed on February 9, 2015.
  21. ^ Pia Wertheimer: Martin Graf voted out, three women new to the government council. In: Tages-Anzeiger . April 12, 2015, accessed April 13, 2015 .
  22. ↑ More women on the board of directors. Media release, accessed on May 18, 2013.
  23. ↑ Board of Directors of the Swiss Mobiliar Cooperative - as of January 1, 2015. In: mobi.ch, accessed on February 9, 2015. (PDF)
  24. ^ The members, Kinderschutz Foundation, Switzerland ( Memento of May 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  25. ↑ Members of the Board of Trustees, on technopark.ch ( Memento from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  26. ↑ Pestalozzianum Foundation Board In: pestalozzianum.ch, accessed on February 9, 2015.
  27. ↑ a b c d e Councilor Jacqueline Fehr - Balance of the legislature 2015 to 2019. Canton of Zurich, Directorate of Justice and the Interior, General Secretariat, accessed on March 6, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Jürg Felix and Kuno Schedler: Financing of the cultural funding of the Canton of Zurich. University of St. Gallen, Institute for Systemic Management and Public Governance, February 2017, accessed on March 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fehr, Jacqueline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fehr, Jacqueline Margrith (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallisellen