Klaus Fellmann

Klaus Fellmann (2012)
(Photo: Roberto Conciatori)

Klaus Fellmann (born September 19, 1941 in Dagmersellen ; resident in Dagmersellen) is a Swiss politician ( CVP ). From 1987 to 1999 he was a member of the government of the Canton of Lucerne .

Youth and training

Fellmann was born as the son of Niklaus Fellmann and Elisabeth. Wanner was born in the law firm's Dagmersellen as the third child of his parents. The parental home housed not only the family, but also the parish office. The father (1898–1964) was a community clerk from 1923 to 1964 .

The primary school attended Fellmann in Dagmersellen. From 1954 to 1958 he was a member of the College of the Benedictine Fathers in Sarnen . He decided to do a three-year apprenticeship as an administrative clerk with his father in Dagmersellen and completed the commercial vocational school in Sursee and the administration-specific training in Willisau , which he completed in 1961 with an average grade of 5.5. He was active in the sports group of the Catholic Young Team and in the Dagmersellen church choir.

He performed his compulsory military service until he was released from military service as a private in 1991. When he left, he was mayor of the Lucerne state.

After a language stay in Florence , he prepared himself for the Lucerne municipal clerk and notary's examination, which he passed in 1963.

Occupation and political activity

In 1964 he was elected Dagmersellen parish clerk. This involved taking care of the registry office. He also acted as a notary. Until 1973 he was also responsible for the tax office.

He was a member of the board of directors at Willisauer Boten, Luzerner Landbank AG (later: Luzerner Regiobank AG, then merger with Valiant Bank) and Bekon AG (today Bekon-Koralle AG, Dagmersellen).

In 1967 he became a councilor for the Catholic parish of Dagmersellen. In 1971 he was elected to the Grand Council (Parliament, today Cantonal Council) of the Canton of Lucerne and re-elected three times with top results. He was vice-president of the CVP parliamentary group. In 1972 he became president of the CVP of the Willisau office and from 1976 to 1981 he presided over the CVP of the canton of Lucerne. In 1982/83 he was Vice President and 1983/84 President of the Grand Council.

Government Council

In the delegates' assembly of the CVP he prevailed as a candidate for government council against the lawyer and later Councilor of States Franz Wicki and against the then state secretary Franz Schwegler. In 1987 he was elected to the government council. On July 1, 1987, he took over the medical and welfare department (later called the health and social department). He was re-elected twice and reached the top spot each time. He was a board member and vice-president of the Swiss Health Directors' Conference and president of the intercantonal foundation for community nursing in Sarnen . In 1991 and 1996 he was mayor (district president). His government activity ended on June 30, 1999. He did not stand for re-election.

Later activities

From 1999 to 2006 he was President of the Swiss Health Promotion Foundation, from 1999 to 2004 member of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss Diabetes Foundation, from 1999 to 2010 board member of the Swiss Lung League (Bern), from 2000 to 2010 President of the Association for the Blind Welfare of Central Switzerland (Horw), from 2002 to 2008 member of the Foundation Board of the Villa Erica in Nebikon and from 2001 to 2012 President of the Advisory Board for the Christmas campaign of the Luzerner Zeitung . He was a founding member of the Rotary Club Willisau. Immediately after resigning from the government council, he rejoined the Dagmersellen church choir, which he presided over from 2002 to 2010.

family

In 1967 Fellmann married Rita Meier from Dagmersellen. The couple have three children (two daughters and one son) and four grandchildren.

Appreciation

“Politically, Fellmann is seen as conservative in terms of values ​​with a high level of social commitment. His style avoids the spectacular, but he loves quality. He rejects reforms for the sake of reforms, but with the performance-oriented hospitals (LOS) project has proven that he is always open to good innovations and developments. "

- Stefan Calivers, Willisauer Bote special edition June 24, 1999

A concern for him was the balanced center supply at the cantonal hospital with supplements by the regional hospital Sursee / Wolhusen, the psychiatric clinic St. Urban and the high altitude clinic Montana . His commitment also applied to the social department (creation of a cantonal social welfare office and enactment of a timely social welfare law).

Fellmann sought the balance between personal responsibility and social solidarity in his political work. He was critical of unreflected reforms. He advocated increased collaboration among the communities. Accordingly, he was in favor of a territorial reform that would not be decreed by the canton, but would grow from the bottom up. Similarly, he rejected the vision of a “canton of Central Switzerland”, but advocated closer cooperation among the cantons of Central Switzerland. Politically, he advocated a coalition of constructive forces that sought to solve problems for the general public and not for special interests. He did not meet a dogmatically oriented “coalition of the middle” with great optimism; the “middle” should politicize in terms of the solution. He behaved accordingly in government work. Fellmann's ties to the people brought him confirmation of his policy in seven cantonal votes: u. a. the delegated cardiac surgery at the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital with the cooperation across canton borders, the new form of connection between inpatient and outpatient care in the field of psychiatry and the new building of the Lucerne Women's Clinic.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schultheissen / District President of the Lucerne Stand
2. ↑ Notarization Ordinance
3. ^ Today regionalized: Regional registry office Willisau
4. ↑ today: Willisauer Bote Medien und Print AG
5. ↑ Website of the Roman Catholic Church in the Canton of Lucerne ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Website of the Cantonal Council of the Canton of Lucerne
7. ↑ Homepage of the Christian Democratic People's Party Wahlkreis Willisau ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Homepage of the Christian Democratic People's Party in the Canton of Lucerne
9. ↑ Franz Wicki on the website of the Federal Assembly
10. ^ Website of the Health and Social Department
11. ↑ Homepage of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Health Directors (GDK)
12. ↑ Speeches by Government Councilor Klaus Fellmann 1987–1999 (selection): State Archives Lucerne (call number A 1240)
13. ↑ Homepage of Health Promotion Switzerland ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2012 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. 
14. ^ Homepage of the Swiss Diabetes Foundation
15. ↑ Homepage of the Care for the Blind in Central Switzerland
16. ↑ Website of the Villa Erica Foundation ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2012 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. 
17. ↑ Board of Trustees and Advisory Board of the LZ Christmas Campaign - as of August 28, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ^ Homepage of the Rotary Club Willisau
19. ↑ B145 Interim report on the impact-oriented administration (WOV) and performance-oriented hospitals (LOS) projects ( memento of the original from October 29, 2003 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. ( MS Word ; 780 kB) 
20. ↑ Homepage of the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital - locations in Lucerne, Sursee, Wolhusen, Montana
21. ^ Homepage of Lucerne Psychiatry
22. ^ Homepage of the DISG - Social and Society Office ( Memento of the original from July 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
23. ^ Social Assistance Act of October 24, 1989