Leon Smurf

Leon Schlumpf (born February 3, 1925 in Felsberg , Graubünden ; † July 7, 2012 in Chur ; resident in Mönchaltorf and Felsberg) was a Swiss politician ( SVP , DP ), lawyer and folk musician . From 1980 to 1987 he was a member of the Federal Council .

Life

Leon Schlumpf studied law at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate there in 1951 . He was a lawyer by profession and served as a Grand Councilor , Government Councilor , National Councilor and Council of States . From 1974 to 1978 he was the price watchdog in Switzerland. He was elected to the Federal Council on December 5, 1979 . He resigned on December 31, 1987. During his tenure, he headed the Federal Transport and Energy Department . During his term in office, the construction of the Vereina tunnel was approved in a referendum on September 22, 1985, a project he supported.

In 1984 he was Federal President . In this function he received the South African President Piet Willem Botha in Bern . The reception was controversial because Switzerland had close economic, military and secret service contacts with South Africa, even though the latter was internationally isolated due to its racist apartheid policy .

Schlumpf played the piano , hand organ and Schwyzerörgeli and devoted himself to country music . Under the pseudonym Raetus Telena, he composed pieces himself, which he interpreted with the Bernina Ländlerkapelle, based in Felsberg . A polka composed by him appeared in 2004 on the CD Musig a so wie earlier , played by the Ländlerkapelle Oberalp .

Since 1953 Schlumpf was married to Gertrud "Trudi" Schlumpf-Rupp. The marriage produced three daughters. His daughter Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf was elected in 1998 as the first woman in the Graubünden government council and in 2007 as the first woman in the SVP in the federal council. After the Swiss People's Party excluded its Graubünden cantonal section in 2008, Leon Schlumpf and his daughter became members of the newly founded Civic Democratic Party .

Leon Schlumpf died on July 7, 2012 at the age of 87 in the Cantonal Hospital of Graubünden in Chur.

literature

Leon Schlumpf , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 41/2012 from October 9, 2012, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Literature by and about Leon Schlumpf in the catalog of the German National Library
Adolf Collenberg: Leon Schlumpf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Leon Schlumpf in the Dodis databaseof diplomatic documents of Switzerland
Adolf Ogi : Adolf Ogi pays tribute to Leon Schlumpf. In: The Sunday of July 7th, 2012

Individual evidence

^ Jean-Michel Berthoud: Close Swiss ties to the apartheid regime. In: swissinfo , March 21, 2005, accessed March 5, 2012.

^ Adolf Collenberg: Schlumpf, Leon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

↑ BDP for additional IV funding. ( 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. In: BDP Graubünden , September 2, 2009 ( PDF ; 24 kB).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bdp-gr.info

^ Former Federal Councilor Leon Schlumpf died. In: Schweizer Fernsehen , July 7, 2012.

predecessor	Office	successor
Rudolf Gnägi	Member of the Swiss Federal Council 1980–1987	Adolf Ogi

personal data
SURNAME	Smurf, Leon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH	February 3, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Felsberg
DATE OF DEATH	July 7, 2012
Place of death	Chur

[swissinfo-1] Jean-Michel Berthoud: Close Swiss ties to the apartheid regime. In: swissinfo , March 21, 2005, accessed March 5, 2012.

[2] Adolf Collenberg: Schlumpf, Leon. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .