Marguerite Misteli

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Marguerite Misteli (1991)

Marguerite "Miguel" Misteli (born August 1, 1945 in Solothurn , entitled to live there) is a Swiss politician ( Greens ) and architect . She was the first green national councilor of the canton of Solothurn , canton councilor and is a member of the Solothurn municipal council .

Life and work

Marguerite Misteli was born in Solothurn as the oldest of five siblings. She grew up in a middle-class family: the father came from a Solothurn FDP , the mother from a Lucerne CVP family. When Marguerite Misteli was 14 years old, her mother died; three years later the father took his own life. The five children stayed in the house in Bellach (SO) , Marguerite took over responsibility as the eldest.

Misteli studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and moved to Berlin in 1969 for “two years of teaching and traveling” . Misteli later lived together for over two decades abroad: in South Africa , England , Macedonia , Serbia , Cuba and, for the longest, as a city planner in Mozambique .

In Solothurn, Misteli is also known as "Miguel", a variant of Marguerite. She has been married to her long-term partner for several years.

Political career

With the early loss of my parents, "it was obvious from my biography that I was a politically thinking woman from an early age," writes Misteli on her website. In Berlin she was a member of a Maoist group. When she returned to Solothurn in 1971, she joined the communist POCH , which was founded as part of the 1968 movement. In a 2015 interview, Misteli stated: “Otherwise I didn't like any party. At that time the Solothurn SP was almost more bourgeois than Freinn. " In 1973 she was elected to the Solothurn municipal council. At about the same time, she helped found the Kreuz cooperative restaurant and the Solothurn tenants' association.

In 1991 Misteli came back to Switzerland from a ten-year stay in Mozambique. The women's strike dominated politics and the media at the time. The Solothurn Greens only put women on the list for the 1991 National Council elections , among them Marguerite Misteli. In October 1991 she was elected to the National Council as the first Solothurn Greens. Their mandate ended after a legislative session in December 1995, when the Solothurn Greens lost their seat.

In 2008 Marguerite Misteli returned from a stay abroad, this time in Cuba, and was elected to the Solothurn cantonal and local council a little later. At the age of 70, Misteli said goodbye to cantonal politics in 2015. But she is still active in the Solothurn municipal council.

During her career, Misteli has a. a. used for women's rights and environmental issues. Today she is Honorary President of the 2000-Watt-Region Solothurn Association, which was founded in 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ View council member. The Federal Assembly - The Swiss Parliament, accessed on April 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c About the person. In: "Miguel" Marguerite Misteli. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Noëlle Karpf: Solothurn woman remembers the first women's strike - and looks back at the second. June 8, 2019, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b Lucien Fluri: "With age, you feel the finiteness of life". February 1, 2015, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Misteli Schmid Marguerite. City of Solothurn, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Board of Directors. 2000-Watt-Region Solothurn Association, accessed on April 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Misteli, Marguerite
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Misteli, Miguel; Misteli Schmid, Marguerite
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (Greens) and architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Solothurn