Martin Gschwind

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Martin Gschwind (born February 26, 1965 in the canton of Basel-Land , Switzerland ) was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt (initially VA , then non-party).

Life

Gschwind grew up in a suburb in the Basel area . In his youth he said he was addicted to drugs and had problems with his aggressive behavior.

After accepting an offer to join a therapy ship, he changed his life. Through the mediation of the captain, he got a job as a seaman on an oil tanker.

However, as a result of an accident, he had to give up this activity and returned to Basel. Since then he has been drawing an IV pension .

In order to be able to go back to sea, he first wanted to train as a cook. However, when he met his wife in Basel, who worked for a Spitex , he stayed in the city where he lives in the Kleinhüningen district of Kleinbasel . He got a job as a seller of the street magazine Surprise on Claraplatz , which he carried out together with his wife. During this time, he gained a certain degree of local fame through media reports in which politicians and other local celebrities had themselves photographed with the magazine sellers as evidence of their social commitment, a report about the couple in the magazine itself and the 2007 film Surprise - Career for marginal figures of the Swiss filmmaker Roland Achini . During this time, Eric Weber , founder and leader of the people's campaign against too many foreigners and asylum seekers in our homeland (VA) and already once a Grand Councilor of the National Action against foreign infiltration of the people and homeland (today Swiss Democrats ), got in touch with him for the first time on.

After four years, Gschwind gave up the surprise sale because his business (the sellers receive half of the income) had been spoiled by more and more asylum seekers who also sold the magazine. He joined the residents' committee against asylum dormitories in Kleinbasel .

In the run-up to the grand council elections on October 28, 2012, Eric Weber convinced Gschwind and his wife to be a member and candidate for the VA list . The VA only competed in Kleinbasel, where with just over 5 percent it jumped over the 4 percent quorum in one constituency that came into force on this election date (old: 5 percent). Martin Gschwind achieved a total of 995 votes at number 2 on the list and thus entered the cantonal parliament as the second grand councilor of the VA alongside Weber. Gschwind distanced himself from Weber's verbal attacks, who were only interested in revenge. He, on the other hand, is a decent man and wants to participate politically in the legislative period beginning in February 2013.

Shortly after the beginning of the legislative period in February 2013, Gschwind was no longer a member of the Volks-Aktion, and then continued to polish as a non-party. Gschwind said he had left the party, while Weber claimed that Gschwind "did not want to give the party any money." His mandate as a Grand Council ended with the end of the legislative period in 2016.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Example: A fun football game with university participation  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Media release from the University of Basel, January 23, 2007@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.unibas.ch  
  2. ↑ Own representation of the people's campaign against too many foreigners and asylum seekers in our homeland (VA) - List of foreigners stop : Switzerland for the Swiss  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Vogel Gryff - The newspaper for the Kleinbasel , official organ of IG Kleinbasel, 61st vol., No. 21 v. October 11, 2012, p. 10 ( PDF file; 3.7 MB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vogelgryff.ch  
  3. ^ Christian Mensch : Martin Gschwind: the man from Kleinhüningen . Basellandschaftliche Zeitung , Basel-Stadt edition, November 4, 2012
  4. ^ Pascale Hofmeier: Split popular action: Martin Gschwind no longer in Eric Weber's party . Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, Basel Stadt edition, March 5, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Gschwind, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1965