Paul Wyss (politician)

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Paul Wyss
National Council (center of picture, with glasses, approx. 1980)

Paul Wyss (born July 7, 1928 in Basel ) is a former Swiss politician ( FDP ) and member of the National Council .

Life

Paul Wyss, based in Basel and Lüsslingen / SO , grew up in Basel, where he graduated from the cantonal commercial school. He was in his youth a hockey player of EHC Basel played later with the SC Bern. He was a goalie in the National League 18 times , the first time as a 14-year-old. In 1952 he also took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo as a goalkeeper for the Swiss national team. He was also a member of the national athletics team five times as a discus thrower. He studied as a student of Business and Economics at the University of Basel and then at the University of Bern , where he also received his doctorate . From 1954 he worked in the HR department of JR Geigy AG in Basel and in 1970 became HR director of Ciba-Geigy AG, which was created through the merger of Ciba and Geigy . From 1977 to 1993 he was Vice President and Director of the Basel Chamber of Commerce . He then became CEO and Vice President of Messe Basel .

Paul Wyss joined the Liberal Democratic Party in 1972, three years later he took second place in the National Council election behind the then electorate Alfred Schaller . When Schaller resigned in 1977, Paul Wyss moved up to the National Council. He was subsequently confirmed in this office four times (1979, 1983, 1987, 1991). He was a member of the National Council's Military Commission, which he also presided over in 1988/89, as well as the Foreign Policy Commission. In 1994 he resigned from his parliamentary mandate, to which Stefan Cornaz succeeded . Wyss was also Vice President of the FDP Basel-Stadt . As president of a program commission of the FDP Switzerland, he headed the development of the " Rigi theses " for the creation of a modern state with a liberal character, which served as the core of the new liberal leading program of 1982 "Principles of modern liberalism". At the beginning of the 1990s, he headed a Swiss FDP working group that formulated current cornerstones of Swiss neutrality .

Wyss became a colonel in the Swiss Army and from 1974 to 1977 the commander of the Basel Infantry Regiment 22. He was a co-founder of the “Leuenberg” conference center of the Protestant Reformed Church in Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft . From 1996 to 2004 he was chairman of the board of directors of the Basel medical rehabilitation center “Rehab”, he was also president of the “Basel tanzt” foundation and president of Schweizer Sporthilfe. In 2005 Wyss received the "Basler Stern" award, which honors personalities whose work extends beyond Basel.

There are four children from his first marriage in which he was widowed. Paul Wyss is married and lives in Münchenstein.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Heuss in conversation with Paul Wyss on the occasion of his 80th birthday on July 7, 2008 , Basler Freisinn, 7/2008, page 14.
  2. ^ Paul Wyss: Offensive for Liberalism , Politische Rundschau , 60 (1981) 71-74.
personal data
SURNAME Wyss, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel