Joachim Weber (politician, 1913)

Joachim Weber also spelled Weber-Erb (* August 28, 1913 in Schwyz ; † February 27, 1999 there ; entitled to live in Arth and Schwyz) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ).

biography

Family and work

The Catholic baptized Joachim Weber from the Schwyz community, son of the hotelier and cantonal council president Pius Weber and his wife Josephine born Gianella, received his commercial diploma at the Schwyz commercial school. He then completed language stays in French-speaking Switzerland , Italy and England . In 1948 he acquired the Immenfeld farm in Schwyz. Joachim Weber married Gertrud Erb in 1938. He died in February 1999 at the age of 85 in his home town of Schwyz.

Political career

Which the Free Democratic Party joined Joachim Weber was in 1942 in the Schwyzer elected county council, which he from 1944 to 1946 as a district Ammann board, in 1952 he left. In 1956 he was elected to the Cantonal Council of Schwyz and resigned in 1968. From 1967 to 1975 Joachim Weber took a seat on the National Council for his canton , where he presided over the Foreign Trade Commission. In addition, Joachim Weber was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1970 to 1976 .

Joachim Weber, one of the most prominent and distinctive personalities in Swiss agricultural policy of his time, chaired the farmers' association of the Canton of Schwyz. From 1959 to 1961 Weber held the office of President of the Central Swiss Farmers 'Union , then until 1974 that of the President of the Swiss Farmers' Union , of which he was appointed Honorary President after his resignation in 1974. In 1970 Joachim Weber received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Zurich .

literature

• Académie suisse des sciences médicales: Bulletin of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences = Bulletin de l'Académie suisse des sciences médicales = Bollettino dell'Accademia svizzera delle scienze mediche, Volume 27, Schwabe, Basel, 1971, p. 183.
• [Joachim Weber-Erb, Schwyz, 1913-1999. Document collection], [Var.loc.], [1971]
• Hans Gisrberger: Who's who in Switzerland, Central European Times Publishing Company Limited, Zurich, 1989, p. 567.
• Schwyz (Canton), Government Council: The State of Schwyz in the Federal State, 1848-1998, Government Council of the Canton Schwyz, Schwyz, 1998, p. 176.

Web links

• Franz Auf der Maur : Weber, Joachim. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Joachim Weber (politician, 1913) on the website of the Federal Assembly