Jean-Noël Rey

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Jean-Noël Rey
Jean-Noël Rey (1990)

Jean-Noël Rey (born December 23, 1949 in Sierre , Switzerland ; † January 16, 2016 in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso ; resident in Chermignon , Mollens and Montana ) was a Swiss civil servant , manager and politician ( SP ).

Life

Rey was in 1978 at the University of Geneva with a dissertation on Swiss trade union movement to Dr. sc. éc. et soc. PhD .

After he had been a personal employee of the then Federal Councilor Otto Stich , Rey was appointed General Director of the Post Department PTT in 1990. He was the last General Director of the Swiss Post to be employed as a civil servant . He was released in 1998 after allegations of nepotism , among other things . However, there was no conviction. In 2001 Rey became General Director of the Swiss branch of the parcel distributor DPD . In 2004 he resigned from this position. In 2013 he was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Switzerland-France Chamber of Commerce . He also sat on several boards of directors.

Jean-Noël Rey was killed in January 2016, along with Georgie Lamon and another 27 people, in an Islamist terrorist attack in Burkina Faso, West Africa , at the age of 66. The two Swiss were there to inaugurate the canteen of a school.

Rey was a second wife and father of two children.

Political offices

Rey belonged to the Swiss Social Democratic Party. During the 47th legislative period (2003–2007) he was a member of the National Council . In 2007 the man from Lower Valais ran on the list of the SP Upper Valais, but failed to be re-elected.

Web links

Commons : Jean-Noël Rey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Title entry of the dissertation , NEBIS , accessed on January 17, 2016.
  2. ↑ Urs Paul Engeler : Federal Councilor: Job at the catapult . Weltwoche 3/2009 from January 14, 2009, accessed on January 17, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Terrorist attacks in Burkina Faso: Ex-Post boss Jean-Noël Rey († 66) among the victims . Blick.ch , January 17, 2016, accessed on January 17, 2016.
  4. ^ A b Postman again: Fired PTT boss Jean-Noël Rey is again post director . News.ch, June 6, 2001, accessed on January 17, 2016.
  5. ↑ Claudia Laubscher, Synes Ernst: Jean-Noël Rey: "I'm for the post-initiative, but against a postal museum" . Interview in the Handelszeitung , July 13, 2004, accessed on January 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ Jean-Noël Rey new board president of the Chamber of Commerce Switzerland-France . 1815.ch , June 19, 2013, accessed on January 17, 2016.
  7. ↑ a b Patrik Müller : He kept getting up. ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary in: Switzerland on Sunday January 17, 2016, accessed on January 17, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / epaper-fi.azmedien.ch
  8. ↑ Burkina Faso / Wallis: Jean-Noël Rey and Georgie Lamon killed in attack . Radio Rottu Oberwallis , January 17, 2016, accessed on January 18, 2016.
  9. ↑ Dispute within the Walliser SP has consequences . SDA article on NZZ Online , July 17, 2007, accessed on January 17, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rey, Jean-Noël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss civil servants, managers and politicians (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Sierre , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 2016
Place of death Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso