Leo Odermatt

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Leo Odermatt (born January 17, 1948 in Stans , Canton Nidwalden ) was a member of the government of the Canton of Nidwalden from 1998 to 2010 .

Leo Odermatt grew up on a farm in Ennetmoos . After graduating from the St. Fidelis College in Stans, he studied economics at the HSG St. Gallen and graduated with a dissertation on alpine farming in Nidwalden . From 1976, until his election to the government council, he taught as a secondary school teacher at the Central Switzerland Traffic School in Lucerne , and had been Vice-Rector there since 1988. He interrupted his teaching activities between 1982 and 1984 in order to work on behalf of Caritas on a development project after the devastating earthquake of 1980 in southern Italy .

Leo Odermatt is one of the co-founders of the Democratic Nidwalden (from 2009 Green Nidwalden ). He was also president of the MNA (committee for the participation of the Nidwalden people in nuclear facilities), a group that combats a nuclear repository in his home canton.

From 1990 to 1998 he was a member of the Nidwalden district administrator . From 1998 to 2010 he was Councilor and stood before the Health and Social Services Department.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leo Odermatt: The alpine economy in Nidwalden. Historical development and adaptation to the agricultural structures of the modern age . Verlag Historischer Verein Nidwalden, Stans 1981. (= contributions to the history of Nidwalden , volume 40).
  2. ↑ VEVL contact - The Association of Alumni of the Lucerne Traffic School (VEVL) provides information . November 1988, p. 11.
  3. ↑ VEVL contact - newsletter of the Association of Former traffic school Luzern (VEVL) . September 1998, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Odermatt, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Stans