Markus Bischoff (politician)

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Markus Bischoff (2014)

Markus Bischoff (born June 26, 1956 ) is a Swiss lawyer and politician on the Alternative List (AL). He has been a member of the Zurich Cantonal Council and President of the Trade Union Confederation of the Canton of Zurich (GBKZ) since 2007 . In the 2015 government council elections, he applied for a seat in the cantonal government. From 2010 to 2012 he headed the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (PUK) into the corruption scandal at the cantonal BVK pension fund .

Life

Bischoff grew up in a post office owner family near Lake Constance in Berg SG and began reading newspapers there as a child. After graduating from high school in 1976, he first worked as a casting cleaner in a foundry in Arbon and then graduated from the recruit school . After the military began a study in history at the University of Zurich , however, changed in the spring of 1978 to study law , he with a 1982 Licentiate completed. After graduating, he completed a court internship and was admitted to the bar three years later .

A year after his licentiate, he worked as a lawyer for an environmental and professional organization until 1987. He then opened his own law firm as a freelance lawyer at “Walche Rechtsanwälte”. From 1992 to 2002 he was also President of the Legal Information Center for Lawyers' Collective, a low-threshold contact point for legal issues. In 2009 he obtained the title of SAV specialist lawyer in liability and insurance law at the University of Lucerne and has been with the “advoteam” in Zurich since then. In the winter of 2012/13 he appeared as a victim representative at the Horgen twin trial, which received a lot of media attention. He is a member of the Swiss Bar Association and belongs to the democratic lawyers of Switzerland .

Bischoff now lives with his partner and two daughters in Zurich's Höngg district .

politics

Markus Bischoff (2013)

Bischoff was already politicized during his time in the Catholic monastery boarding school Friedberg in Gossau . At the canton school he was active in the anti-nuclear movement and in the group for a Switzerland without an army . Bischoff took over his first political office in 1991 when he was elected to the Zurich City Council for the AL, of which he was a member for eleven years. At the same time, he was active in the VPOD union and became president of VPOD Zurich in 2003, until he was elected president of the cantonal trade union federation in 2012.

In 2007 he was elected to the Zurich Cantonal Council and headed the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (PUK) into the corruption scandal at the cantonal BVK pension fund. Bischoff is a member of the cantonal commissions for economy and taxes (WAK) and justice and public security (KJS). His approaches in the cantonal council often deal with police , legal or asylum issues. Attempts on other topics dealt, for example, with wage dumping in Zurich main station during the construction of the cross-city link , the deductibility of multi-million dollar busses caught by Swiss big banks as “business expenses” in the tax return or the disclosure of large party donations.

On October 28, 2014, his candidacy for the 2015 government council elections was announced. He is officially supported by both the SP and the Greens.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stefan Hotz: The AL ported Markus Bischoff . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 28, 2014 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 1, 2014]).
  2. ^ Ruedi Baumann: Fire in the roof among the left . In: Tages-Anzeiger . October 28, 2014 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed November 1, 2014]).
  3. ↑ Jürg Krebs: AL-candidate Bischoff is a serious opponent . In: Limmattaler Zeitung . October 30, 2014 ( limmattalerzeitung.ch [accessed on January 16, 2015]).
  4. ↑ Ruedi Baumann: "Now there is a block election between bourgeois and left-wing green" . In: Tages-Anzeiger . October 29, 2014 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on November 1, 2014]).
  5. ↑ Brigitte Hürlimann: Public prosecutor calls for life imprisonment, defense lawyer denies murder . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 23, 2013 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 5, 2014]).
  6. ↑ a b Thomas Marth: A widely respected analyst who is not easy to classify . In: The Landbote . February 25, 2015 ( landbote.ch [accessed April 6, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Advance 324/2013: Wage dumping at Zurich main station and the role of the Office for Economy and Labor (AWA) on the website of the Cantonal Council. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  8. ↑ Proposal 123/2014: Tax deductibility of buses on the website of the Cantonal Council. Retrieved November 2, 2014.
  9. ↑ foray 345/2007: Financing of political parties, elections and voting on the website of the cantonal parliament. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  10. ↑ Left alliance complete . In: The Landbote . December 17, 2014 ( landbote.ch [accessed April 6, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Bischoff, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and cantonal councilor on the alternative list
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Mountain SG