Josef Gottlieb Rickenbach

Josef Gottlieb Rickenbach (born April 20, 1928 in Küssnacht SZ ; † April 5, 1995 in Münsterlingen TG, authorized to reside in Arth ) was a Swiss teacher , journalist and politician ( SP ).

Life

Josef Rickenbach grew up in Linthal . The athlete from Glarus until his leg stiffened attended the teachers' seminar in Schiers from 1944 to 1948 . He then worked as a primary school teacher until 1970, initially in the canton of Glarus , and from 1958 in his adopted home in Neukirch (Egnach) in Thurgau . In 1970 he left the teaching profession and took over the editing of the "Thurgauer Arbeiterzeitung" as the successor to Ernst Rodel . At the same time he moved to the neighboring Arbon . From 1980 until his retirement in 1993, Josef Rickenbach was Head of Human Resources at the Arbonia Forster Group .

Josef Rickenbach was married and had three children.

politics

After he took up residence in Neukirch, Josef Rickenbach soon won the sympathy of the rural villagers who elected the Social Democrats to the local council. The election to the Grand Council took place in 1962 . In the cantonal parliament he was soon one of the leading forces. He excelled above all in questions of financial policy. In 1968 he became president of the parliamentary budget commission. From 1971 he was on the board of directors of Thurgauer Kantonalbank. In 1977/78, he presided over the Grand Council. For a few years Rickenbach was secretary of the Social Democratic Party of the Canton of Thurgau . From 1972 to 1975 he presided over this cantonal party. Politically, he belonged to the trade union wing, which at the time politicized right of the party. At the beginning of 1980, when the successor to the resigning government councilor Alfred Abegg came up, Rickenbach was the party’s internal crown favorite. At the nomination party convention of the SP Thurgau on January 18, he was defeated by the then party president and five years younger Ulrich Schmidli, who was elected to the Thurgau government in 1980. Rickenbach remained in the Grand Council until 1988.

As early as the 1970s, Josef Rickenbach made good contacts with the Arbon industrialist Jakob Züllig, who had built up the Arbonia Forster Group. After the SP Thurgau no longer relied on Rickenbach, he left the editorial office of the "Thurgauer Arbeiterzeitung" and joined the management of the Arbonia Forster Group as head of personnel.

literature

• Thurgauer Jahrbuch 1996. , 71st year, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld 1995, ISBN 3-7193-1112-0 , pp. 172–174
• Claudius Graf-Schelling , with the assistance of Sabine Schifferdecker and Bernhard Bertelmann: Roth und röter. 100 years of the Arbon Social Democratic Party 1916-2016. A chronicle. Arbon Social Democratic Party, Arbon 2016, ISBN 978-3-033-05588-9

Web links

• Erich Trösch: Rickenbach, Josef. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .