Peter Beutler

Peter Beutler (2011)

Peter Beutler (born September 12, 1942 in Zwieselberg BE ) is a Swiss politician and writer , known for his commitment against right-wing extremism .

Life

Beutler grew up as the son of a factory worker and small farmer in the Bernese Oberland community of Zwieselberg. After completing an apprenticeship, he prepared for the Matura exam, which he passed in 1966. As a student trainee, he trained as a chemist at the University of Bern . After graduating as Dr. phil.-nat. he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at various universities and in an industrial company in Lucerne. From 1979 to 2007 he taught at the cantonal teachers' seminar in Lucerne (since 2002 also a teacher training college ). In 1972 Beutler married the biologist Maja Vatter; he is the father of two daughters.

Beutler has lived with his wife in the Bernese Oberland since 2007 .

politics

In 1962 Beutler joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP), to which he still belongs today. From 1984 to 2003 he was president of the SP Meggen section . From 1994 to 2007 he represented Meggen in the Lucerne canton parliament. Beutler achieved notoriety throughout Switzerland for his commitment to combating xenophobia, racism , arbitrary police force and regulatory justice. He was able to celebrate a great success in the fight against the racist criticism of the naturalization process in the 30,000-inhabitant municipality of Emmen in central Switzerland . In 2003, the Federal Supreme Court ruled against naturalization decisions at the ballot box, on June 1, 2008, the Swiss population rejected an initiative by the Swiss People's Party (SVP) that wanted to reintroduce naturalization via ballot boxes with a two-thirds majority.

Beutler is also credited with a decisive share in the federal court ruling of June 1, 2007 against the Obwalden Tax Act. Together with the Vaudois PdA National Councilor Josef Zisyadis , he found three Obwalden voters who filed against the tax degression approved in the cantonal referendum (the super-rich then receive percentage lower tax rates). The Lucerne special police unit lynx caused outrage throughout Switzerland , beating two innocent people with a migrant background until they were hospitalized in June 2005 . A parliamentary move by Beutler revealed that the police video that had recorded the arrest was subsequently partially overridden.

From January 2015 to December 2018, Beutler was a member of the municipal council of the Bernese Oberland high altitude health resort Beatenberg , where he was in charge of the business, tourism and culture departments.

Write

From 1980 to the present, Beutler has published numerous political articles and a few scientific articles in newspapers. In August 2010 his first novel Die Tote vom Zwieselberg was published . In Emons Verlag published in May 2012, the neo-Nazi crime Weissenau , in March 2013 police thriller Hollow Lane , in September 2013, the historical thriller Kander gorge on a dark chapter of the Cold War in Switzerland of the 1950s, in February 2014 the Swiss bank Crime Morgarten for a Wiesbaden got a CD with customer data, in October 2014 Kristallhöhle , a thriller based on two real capital crimes in the Kristallhöhle Kobelwald , in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley , in October 2015 Berner Münstersturz , the tragic story of Brigadier Jean-Louis Jeanmaire , convicted of treason in 1977 , and in September 2016 Kehrsatz about the still controversial Kehrsatzer murder case of 1985. Two more political thrillers followed: In October 2017 Hauptwache Urania , the tragic story of Wachtmeister Kurt Meier (" Meier 19 "), who at the end of the 1960s was the largest judicial and Police scandal that had ever struck the city of Zurich to the public brought hkeit. Kurt Meier had to pay bitterly for his whistleblower activity. He lost everything in the process: his professional existence and his family. In 1998, Meier received financial compensation for his unjustified dismissal; the Zurich city council paid him 50,000 francs. In September 2018 the crime thriller Der Lucens Gau was published , which thematizes the now forgotten meltdown of January 1969 in a rock cavern not far from the town of Lucens in Vaud . At that time, officers of the Swiss Army intended to build atomic bombs. The reactor, a hundred meters deep in the mountain, was bricked up with concrete after the disaster. Since then, Switzerland has had an involuntary repository for highly radioactive waste.

The Gstaad Bunker was published in mid-September 2019 . It is a fictional story of the secret army P-26, which ended in the spring of 1990 with the exposure. Not a single member of the government is said to have had knowledge of the P-26. The P-26 was financed from the secret coffers of the then Federal Military Department (EMD). Today, the Ministry of Defense of Switzerland called Department of Civil Protection and Sport (VBS). A parliamentary commission of inquiry (PUK), the third in the history of the state, which has existed since 1848, took on this secret organization. The final report, which appeared in December 1990, called for the P-26 to be disbanded. The two chambers of parliament approved this report.

Works

• The dead from Zwieselberg. Re Di Roma, Remscheid 2010, ISBN 978-3-86870-214-9
• Weissenau. Emons, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-89705-971-9
• Hollow Alley. Emons, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-95451-058-0
• Kanderschlucht. Emons, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-95451-136-5
• Morgarten. Emons, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-95451-246-1
• Crystal cave. Emons, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-95451-389-5
• Bern Minster Fall. Emons, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-711-4
• Sweeping. Emons, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-95451-967-5
• Main guard Urania. Emons, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-7408-0164-9
• The Lucens Gau. Emons, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-7408-0432-9
• The Gstaad bunker. Emons, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-7408-0608-8

Web links

• Parliamentary question on the lynx special unit (PDF; 66 kB)
• Beutler brings the Lucerne police commander in need of explanation
• The Lucerne judiciary and police destroy evidence
• Federal court ruling in the Obwalden tax dispute (PDF; 154 kB)
• Interview with Vorwärts about right-wing extremism ( memento from September 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Peter Beutler on Peter Beutler

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Lynx special police unit celebrates its 25th anniversary. Radio DRS, May 19, 2011