Lisbeth Gabriel

Lisbeth Gabriel (born August 28, 1948 in Wolfenschiessen ) is a politician ( CVP ) in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden . She was one of the first two government councilors and first Mrs. Landammann (district president) of Nidwalden.

Life and politics

Elisabeth Blättler is the daughter of Werner Blättler and Anna, born Näpflin, who ran a farm in Wolfenschiessen. After attending primary and secondary school in Wolfenschiessen from 1955 to 1963 and a one-year household and language training year at the Heilig Kreuz Academy in Freiburg , she attended the preliminary course for post office workers from 1964 to 1965 and completed an apprenticeship as a post office worker in Engelberg from 1965 to 1966 . 1966–1969 she was employed by the post office in Zurich , 1969–1971 in Lucerne . In 1970 she married the overhead line fitter Josef Gabriel, with whom she had four children. After the birth of the first child in 1971, Gabriel worked part-time at the post office in Grafenort and supported her father, who ran a branch of the Raiffeisenbank in Wolfenschiessen from home. From 1988 she took over an agency of the CSS health insurance , which she also ran from home until 1998. This was followed by other positions within CSS Insurance in Engelberg and Stans , until she left the company in 2002.

Gabriel came from a politically active family. Her father was the governing councilor of the Agriculture and Forestry Directorate for the Catholic Conservatives , while her mother was involved in women's organizations such as the Swiss Catholic Women's Association , the Mothers' Association and the Swiss Association of Catholic Peasant Women . In 1982 the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) asked Gabriel to work on the school council, whereupon she joined the party and was responsible for finance on the Wolfenschiessen school council until 1990. In 1990 she ran successfully for the district administrator of the canton of Nidwalden , of which she was a member until 2002. 1994–2002 she headed the CVP district administration group.

In 1998 Gabriel stood for election to the Nidwalden government council. Although she reached the quorum, she was eliminated because she had received the fewest votes. In 2002 she ran again; she and Beatrice Jann-Odermatt were the first women to be elected to the government council. Gabriel took over the agriculture and environmental management, and when the acting building director died in 2004, she also led the building management on an interim basis. In the election year 2005, she decided to move to the building management, which she led until 2010. In 2005 she was the first woman in the canton of Nidwalden to hold the office of Landammann.

Gabriel worked in various associations and administrative bodies during and after her political career. From 1992–2006 she was a member of the board of trustees of the Nidwalden retirement and nursing home (2000–2006 Vice-President of the Committee). In 2000 she co-founded the Agriculture Forum Nidwalden, which she presided over ex officio from 2002-2005 in her function as Agriculture and Environment Director. In 2009 she became a member of the CSS Association. In addition, there were voluntary commitments: In 2002 she was involved in the founding of the regional section Central Switzerland of the women's service club Soroptimist International and since 2013 she has been president of the Winterhilfe Nidwalden association.

Web links

• Alessandra Widmer: Lisbeth Gabriel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 12, 2019 , accessed July 23, 2019 .
• Lisbeth Gabriel on the website of the canton of Nidwalden ( memento from October 24, 2007 in the web archive archive.today )

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