Josef Lang (politician, 1954)

Josef Lang (2007)

Josef Wendelin "Jo" Lang (born April 29, 1954 in Aristau ; legal domicile there ) is a Swiss historian and politician ( alternative ).

Political career

Lang was elected to the Zug municipal council for the Socialist Workers' Party (SAP) in 1982 and was one of the founding members of the Socialist Green Alternative Zug (SGA) in 1986 . Lang was President of the SGA from March 1991 to March 1997. The local groups have joined forces in the Alternative Kanton Zug , of which Lang has been president since April 2006.

In 1994, Lang moved from the municipal council to the Cantonal Council of Zug, from which he resigned in 2004. In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2003 , Lang was elected to the National Council as one of three members of the Canton of Zug . There he was a member of the Green Group . Lang was co-founder of the group for a Switzerland without an army (GSoA). In the elections of October 23, 2011 , he was not re-elected by 150 votes because the linked lists of his party and the SP lost share of the vote. On April 21, 2012, Lang was elected to the four-person Vice Presidium of the Swiss Green Party .

Professional career

Lang received his doctorate in 1980 under Rudolf von Albertini at the University of Zurich. He works as a vocational school teacher. In 1981, due to his criticism of the Zug financial center, he was banned from working at the Zug Cantonal School . For this reason, he has been teaching at the Zurich construction trade school since 1982. In 1996 the Zug government apologized for the ban. Since September 2013 he has been writing - together with Franz Jaeger - a column for the NZZ am Sonntag .

Private

He held the rank of soldier in the Swiss Army . Lang has been married since 2003 and has lived in Bern since 2012.

Fonts (selection)

• The Basque Labyrinth. Oppression and Resistance in Euskadi . International socialist publications, Frankfurt am Main 1983 (dissertation, University of Zurich, 1980); 2nd, expanded edition 1988, ISBN 3-88332-073-0 .
• The soul of the nation: the importance of Switzerland without an army. International socialist publications, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-88332-173-7 .
• (Ed. with Peter Huber ) Solidarity with the Swiss Revolution: The German "Addresses" Movement 1847/48. Chronos, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-905312-86-7 .
• Ultramontanism and anti-Semitism in original Switzerland - or: The fight against the secularization of the state and society (1858–1878). In: Olaf Blaschke , Aram Mattioli (ed.): Catholic anti-Semitism in the 19th century: causes and traditions in international comparison. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-280-02806-X , pp. 337-372.
• Sacred and profane from Zugerland: Contributions to religious and cultural history. Bannverlag Zug, Zug 2007, ISBN 978-3-9522657-3-4 .
• with Pirmin Meier : Kulturkampf. 19th century Switzerland in the mirror of today. Verlag Hier und Jetzt, Baden 2016, ISBN 978-3-03919-398-1 .
• Democracy in Switzerland. History and present. Verlag Hier und Jetzt, Baden 2020, ISBN 978-3-03919-486-5 .

Web links

Commons : Josef Lang  - Collection of Images

• Josef Lang on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Website by Josef Lang
• Jean-Martin Büttner: The fall of the enemy. Portrait in: Tages-Anzeiger from February 19, 2012 (archive)
• Josef Lang (politician, 1954) in the doku-zug.ch database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Josef Lang: Catholic and Protestant cows , Tages-Anzeiger online, August 6, 2013, accessed on December 17, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Soukup: Jo Lang turns his back on the canton of Zug. In: Tages-Anzeiger . October 31, 2012.
3. ↑ Results (archive)
4. ↑ Green with two women at the head. ( Memento of February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Media release of April 21, 2012
5. ^ Personal information on Jo Lang on the GSoA website
6. ↑ Nine new authors deliver 'breaking views'. In: in person , March 31, 2011, accessed September 28, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Linus Schöpfer: Required reading for patriots. In: Tages-Anzeiger . May 14, 2020, accessed May 14, 2020 .