Peter Hänggi (politician)

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Peter Hänggi (born February 14, 1942 in Nunningen ; entitled to live there ) is a Swiss politician ( CVP ).

Life

Peter Hänggi was born in 1942 as the oldest of seven children in a family of bakers and grew up in Nunningen. When he was ten years old, his father died of a brain tumor. After school, Hänggi completed an apprenticeship as a baker / confectioner and attended a commercial school. Hänggi then worked in his parents' company in Nunningen for a few years before he became deputy director at Wernli AG . After leaving the government council, he headed the social services of the Swiss Army until his retirement.

Peter Hänggi is married with four children, six grandfathers and two great-grandfathers. In the military, Hänggi held the rank of major .

politics

Hänggi started his political career as a councilor in his home town of Nunningen. He later became, among other things, president of the CVP of the Thierstein district and the CVP of the canton of Solothurn . In the National Council elections in 1987, Hänggi was elected to the National Council.

In 1991 he was elected to succeed Alfred Rötheli in the government council of the canton of Solothurn. He was there in front of the finance and military directorate. In the 1993 elections, Hänggi was confirmed in office. In January 1994, Finance Director Hänggi had to inform the public about the critical situation at Solothurner Kantonalbank . The cantonal bank was subsequently restructured with taxpayers' money and then privatized. The events later went down in Solothurn history as the "Kantonalbank debacle". The Solothurn government and in particular finance director Hänggi were blamed for complicity in the decline of the cantonal bank through the media and a parliamentary commission of inquiry. In the aftermath of these events, Hänggi was withdrawn from the finance department by the government council. In the 1997 renewal elections, Hänggi only came sixth in the first ballot. Even if none of the other previous ones was re-elected in the first ballot, Peter Hänggi decided not to run in the second ballot due to his poor result. The CVP instead nominated Walter Straumann who made the election.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b From the baker to politics to winemaker , Basler Zeitung , February 14, 2017
  2. ↑ Mutation in the social services of the army - Peter Hänggi replaces Brigadier Jean Langenberger
  3. ↑ An insider looks back on the end of the Solothurner Kantonalbank , Solothurner Zeitung , December 20, 2014
  4. ↑ She was part of the banking fiasco , Basler Zeitung , January 4, 2017
  5. ^ Elections to the government council in Solothurn 1997 , Institute for Political Science at the University of Bern , In: Année politique Suisse
  6. ↑ 1997 election results
personal data
SURNAME Hanggi, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (CVP)
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Nunningen