Klaus Baumgartner

Klaus Baumgartner (born December 21, 1937 in Herzogenbuchsee ; † December 10, 2015 ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ). From 1993 to 2004 he was Mayor of Bern .

Life

After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he studied economics and social sciences on a second education path, and received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. and worked from 1974 to 1988 as director's secretary at the Swiss Federal Housing Office. From 1977 to 1988 he was a member of the Bern City Council as a representative of the Social Democratic Party ; In 1987 he was city council president. In 1989 he was elected to the Bern municipal council and worked there until 1992 as welfare and health director. From 1993 to 2004 he was mayor. Alexander Tschäppät followed him .

Baumgartner was married and had two children.

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• Mayor Dr. Klaus Baumgartner runs again. ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) City of Bern, December 23, 1999 (archive version).
• Mayor of Bern ( Memento of November 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on g26.ch.

Web links

• Bernhard Ott: He preferred to work in the background. Obituary in: Der Bund of December 10, 2015.
• Janina Gehrig: How Klaus Baumgartner shaped Bern's urban development. In: Der Bund of December 10, 2015.
• Klaus Baumgartner is dead. Video in: TeleBärn from December 10, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A leader with limited competencies. In: The Bund . October 4, 2000.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jürg Steiner: The father figure of the red-green city of Bern is dead. In: bernerzeitung.ch . December 10, 2015, accessed December 11, 2015.