Marcel Guignard

Marcel Guignard (born January 22, 1949 in Aarau ) is a Swiss lawyer and politician ( FDP ). From 1993 to 2013 he was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau and from 1987 to 2013 City Mayor of Aarau.

biography

Guignard grew up in Aarau and attended the canton school there . He spent a year as an exchange student with the American Field Service in Buffalo . After graduating from high school , he studied law at the Universities of Geneva , Zurich and Basel . After he was admitted to the bar in 1975 , he received his doctorate three years later . From 1973 to 1975 he worked as a clerk at the Aarau District Court , and from 1976 to 1979 as a legal adjunct in the legal department of the Aargau government council . After all, from 1980 to 1987 he was head of the justice department in the Interior Department of the Canton of Aargau .

In 1982 Guignard's political career began when he was elected to the Aarau residents' council . On September 13, 1987, he was elected to the Aarau City Council, five weeks later on October 18, he was elected City Mayor . At the beginning of 1988 he succeeded Markus Meyer . In 1993 Guignard was also elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau; In this he was a member of the commissions for task planning and finance, the business audit commission and the state accounting commission. He also chaired the Swiss Association of Cities for eight years .

In addition to these political offices, Guignard was also a member of the board of directors of Industrielle Betriebe Aarau, Aargauische Gebäudeversicherung and Atel Holding . As mayor of the city, he set the tone primarily in the areas of transport and education. For example, after years of planning, the construction of the new Aarau train station could begin . He suffered a setback in 2001 when the Grand Council decided to relocate the departments of the future University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland to Brugg / Windisch . In contrast, in 2009 he succeeded in bringing the Center for Democracy (a research institute of the University of Zurich ) to Aarau. At the end of 2013, Guignard resigned both as councilor and mayor.

Guignard is married and has a son and a daughter.

literature

• Hubert Keller: Marcel Guignard . In: Aarauer Neujahrsblätter . tape 88 . here + now , Baden 2014, p. 62-69 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hubert Keller: Mayor Guignard resigns after 26 years: "There is not just one view of things". In: Aargauer Zeitung . December 16, 2013, accessed October 4, 2017 .