Lilian Uchtenhagen

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Lilian Uchtenhagen (1986)

Lilian Uchtenhagen-Brunner (born September 7, 1928 in Olten ; † September 6, 2016 in Zurich ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ).

Life

Uchtenhagen came from a middle-class family, her parents ran a fashion shop in Olten. She graduated from business school and graduated from the École supérieure de commerce de Neuchâtel in Neuchâtel in 1947 . She studied political science at the University of Basel and the London School of Economics and graduated with a doctoral thesis on the limits of national debt.

In 1970 she joined the SP of the City of Zurich . To take this step, she prompted the headmaster of the business school, where she taught, to give him the name of a student who had written a leaflet at the school. She refused to do so, despite threats from the Rector to resign. She then taught politics at the School for Social Work in Zurich.

After the introduction of women's suffrage , Uchtenhagen was first elected to the Zurich City Council in 1970 and was one of the first women to be elected to the National Council in November 1971 . In 1983 she nominated her party as a candidate for election to the Federal Council , in which she would have been the first female member. Instead, the bourgeois parliamentary majority elected the non-nominated Otto Stich to succeed Willy Ritschard . This “ election scandal in the United Federal Assembly sparked shock waves across the country - not just in their own party. After the show of force by the bourgeois majority, this led a discussion about whether the SP should leave the Federal Council, ”wrote the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in the obituary.

Uchtenhagen did not stand for re-election in November 1991 after twenty years in the National Council.

Uchtenhagen was Chairman of the Board of Directors at Coop Zurich LVZ from 1981 to 1997 , and President of Swissaid from 1998 to 2003 .

She was married to the psychiatrist Ambros Uchtenhagen . She died in Zurich in September 2016 shortly before her 88th birthday.

literature

Web links

Commons : Lilian Uchtenhagen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Res Strehle : Left and socially liberal - without contradiction. Obituary in: Tages-Anzeiger of September 8, 2016, accessed on September 9, 2016.
  2. Kurt Siegenthaler: Lilian Uchtenhagen not elected. TV report on the news show 10vor10 of March 2, 1993 ( online on YouTube , accessed September 8, 2019).
  3. Daniel Gerny, Erich Aschwanden: Obituary: Lilian Uchtenhagen's non-election was a beacon. In: nzz.ch . September 8, 2016, accessed September 8, 2019 .