Marianne Kleiner

Marianne Kleiner

Marianne Kleiner-Schläpfer (born May 29, 1947 in Gossau ) is a Swiss politician ( FDP ). From 2004 to 2005 she was president ad interim of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland and from 1997 to 2000 she was the first regional president of Appenzell Ausserrhoden .

Job and family

Marianne Kleiner earned her psychology - diploma in 1979 at the University of Applied Psychology in Zurich and later completed post-graduate studies in human resources management and psychotherapy . Her specialty is psychological counseling in leadership, communication and conflict management , where she was a lecturer and project manager and currently works as a freelance business consultant.

Kleiner is married and has two children. She is a citizen of Rorschacherberg , Canton St. Gallen , and lives in Herisau , Canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden.

Canton politician

From 1994 to 2003, Marianne Kleiner headed the finance department of the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden as a member of the government . Their success was the restructuring of the canton's finances, also through a newly created financial supervision and the total revision of the tax law . A debt brake was introduced in the Finance Budget Act of 1995 . In April 1997 she was elected the first Mrs. Landammann (district president) of her canton, she held this office until 2000.

Federal politician

Since the parliamentary elections in 2003 , she was the first national councilor from her canton. She first belonged to the finance delegation , then she became a member of the national council finance commission (sub-commissions VBS and EVD ), as well as the commission for social security and health (sub-commissions AHV and family policy ); she was also partially the president of the VBS sub-commission. Kleiner advocates healthy economic growth and against rising taxes and advocates family-friendly and resource-conscious bourgeois politics.

In 2011, Marianne Kleiner announced that she would not stand for the 2011 National Council elections.

Party offices

In 1998, Marianne Kleiner became Vice President of the FDP Switzerland. In 2004 she took over the party presidency ad interim for one year when Rolf Schweiger resigned due to health problems. After Fulvio Pelli was elected president, she remained vice-president of the Swiss party until 2006. Kleiner was a board member of the FDP parliamentary group (from 2003) and the Ausserrhoder FDP.

Web links

• Marianne Kleiner on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Alessandra Widmer: Marianne Kleiner-Schläpfer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 12, 2019 , accessed March 21, 2020 .