Martin Pfister

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Martin Pfister (2018)

Martin Pfister (born July 31, 1963 in Zug ; legal resident in Waldkirch SG ) is a Swiss historian and politician ( CVP ). He has been a member of the government council of the canton of Zug since January 2016 .

Life

Martin Pfister was born in Zug in 1963. In 1984 he received his diploma from the teachers' seminar in St. Michael. From 1988 to 1996 he graduated from the University of Freiburg i. Ue. the study of German and history , which he graduated with a licentiate . From 1993 to 2000 he worked initially as a sub-assistant, then as a research assistant with Urs Altermatt at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Freiburg. He also stayed in 1996 for a study visit to Stanford University in the USA . From 2001 until his election to the government council, Pfister was the managing director of various associations and his own consultancy for association management.

Martin Pfister is married and has three daughters and one son. The family lives in Allenhaben (municipality Baar ZG ). In the Swiss Army, Pfister last held the rank of colonel and was head of disaster relief in Territorial Region 3 .

politics

Martin Pfister made his entry into politics as a member of the Guardianship and Social Assistance Commission of the Baar municipality and from 2005 to 2012 as President of the CVP Baar. In 2006 he was elected to the Cantonal Council, where he was a member of the spatial planning, health and from 2011 to 2016 President of the Education Commission. From 2009 to 2012 he chaired the CVP cantonal parliamentary group. Pfister was then president of the CVP of the canton of Zug until 2016, when he was also a member of the board of the CVP Switzerland.

In the government council elections in 2014, he ran alongside the former Peter Hegglin and Beat Villiger as the third CVP candidate and achieved an absolute majority, but was not elected as the surplus. After Peter Hegglin was elected to the Council of States in 2015 , he resigned from his office in government council. Martin Pfister was elected to the government council in the first ballot in the replacement election in January 2016. Since then, he has headed the Directorate of Health. Pfister is a board member of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Health Directors (GDK).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV on the Pfister website
  2. ^ CV on the website of the Health Department of the Canton of Zug
  3. ^ List of Pfister's political activities on his own website
  4. ↑ Martin Pfister: "Education is central to the Canton of Zug". In: SRF . September 17, 2014, accessed February 3, 2018
  5. ↑ Zuger CVP sends Martin Pfister into the race. In: SRF. November 5, 2015, accessed February 3, 2018
  6. ↑ Martin Pfister succeeds Peter Hegglin. In: Lucerne newspaper . January 16, 2016, accessed February 3, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Pfister, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (CVP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH train