Max Knecht (politician)
Max Knecht (born August 23, 1929 in Schneisingen ; † December 28, 2016 there ) was a Swiss politician (CVP), lawyer and notary. He was the first President of the Wettinger Residents' Council and in 1973 President of the Grand Council .
politics
When the residents' council was introduced in 1966, Max Knecht was elected the council's first president. A year earlier, in 1965, he was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau, which he presided over in 1973 and was therefore the highest Aargau resident. Due to the Presidency of the Grand Council, he resigned from the Residents' Council and remained on the Grand Council until 1985. As the successor to Tito Tettamanti , he was also President of the Young Conservatives Switzerland .
Life
Max Knecht attended the district school in Endingen and the grammar school in Stans . He then studied law in Freiburg im Üechtland , Paris and Zurich . In 1955 he married Elsbeth Luternauer, with whom he had three sons. In the same year he opened a lawyer and notary's office in Döttingen , which he relocated to Wettingen in 1958, because there he was able to take over the office of Alfons Sinniger, who had been elected mayor of Wettinger. After his active political career, Knecht made election forecasts, which he published on his homepage and which were published by the Aargauer Zeitung / Badener Tagblatt .
Web links
- Homepage of Max Knecht
Individual evidence
- ↑ "I had to teach the councilors that I was the president": Interview in the Aargauer Zeitung, accessed on January 4, 2017
- ↑ Death notice of Max Knecht in the Badener Tagblatt from January 4, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Servant, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician (CVP), lawyer and notary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schneisingen , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 2016 |
| Place of death | Schneisingen , Switzerland |