Rémi Brodard

Rémi Brodard

Rémi Brodard (born April 25, 1927 in La Roche ; † January 3, 2015 ) is a Swiss politician ( CVP ) and State Councilor of the canton of Friborg .

Live and act

His parents are Albert Brodard, farmer, and Marie geb. Brodard. He married Michèle Dousse. The couple has three children.

After primary school in La Roche, Rémi Brodard, the youngest of 14 children, attended the St. Michael College as an intern , where he passed the Latin-Greek Matura in 1949 . He completed his legal studies at the University of Freiburg in 1953 with a licentiate . After the internship he was admitted to the bar. From 1957 to 1960 the Gruyère worked as a lawyer in the city of Freiburg .

In that year, which marked a turning point in his life, he decided to become a judge: the electoral college ( State Council and Cantonal Court) appointed him examining magistrate and president of the Glane and Vivisbach district courts . Another reorientation took place in 1965: the State Council appointed him senior bailiff for the Glane district.

In the hotly contested State Council elections of 1971, Rémi Brodard ran on the Christian Democratic list and was elected in the second ballot. During two legislatures, up to December 31, 1981, he headed the judiciary, municipal and parish affairs, and from January 1, 1982 the judicial, police and military directorates. In 1977 and 1984 he was President of the State Council and in this capacity he had the honor of receiving Pope John Paul II during his visit to Switzerland (1984).

In 1986 he ran for the fourth time: he was the longest serving member of the government, but only 59 years old and felt "physically and mentally in good shape". However, since he only reached fourth place on the CVP list in the first ballot, he skipped the second round. Since 1981 the “big old party” applied the “de facto proportional system” according to the formula 3 CVP, 2 SP and 2 FDP.

From 1972 to 1986 the two directorates under Rémi Brodard drafted 37 bills of varying importance. Three of them were discarded. On May 24, 1974, the important law of 1973 on compulsory municipal mergers was rejected by the people, which, however, did not hold back against the director: in 1976 he was the only one to be confirmed in the first ballot and in 1981 he was the first to be confirmed in the second ballot. From 1972 to 1986 eleven decrees were passed on parish mergers.

While the second term (1976–1981) was a “zero-error ride”, the third and last (1981–1986) resulted in a double defeat. On February 26, 1984, the people rejected the 1983 Arms and Ammunition Act, opposed by the powerful rifle lobby, and on September 28, 1986, they repudiated the 1985 Law on Church-State Relations, passed by various ecclesiastical and secular circles was attacked.

His successes, however, included a law on the database of Friborg legislation (1984) and, in chronological order, the laws on juvenile justice (1973), the legal profession (1977), municipalities (1980), expropriation (1984), the Civil status (1986), residents' registration (1986) and the liability of communities and their officials (1986); In addition, the Friborg legislation was streamlined: around 800 outdated laws were repealed in 1986.

In Bellechasse, the renovation of the prison and the large-scale construction of the workshops were completed. In his own words, Rémi Brodard wanted to “deepen trust between the police and the population”.

At the administrative level, he headed the commissions for sanctions against the cantonal dairy headquarters, the mediation in amelioration and the mediation in urban land reallocations.

In 1987, after retiring from politics, at the age of 60 he reopened a law firm, this time with a notary, in the city of Freiburg. Today he lives with his wife Michèle in Villars-sur-Glâne. In accordance with his religious and social convictions, he held several mandates, such as the presidium of the Association of Friends of the Abbey of La Fille-Dieu , which owes the high financial support for the restoration of the abbey church, and the presidium of the foundation board of the Villa Beausite retirement home (2000 - 2010). He died in 2015 at the age of 88.

literature

• Georges Andrey , Hubertus von Gemmingen (translation): The Freiburg State Council: 1848–2011; History, organization, members . Ed .: John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand, Nicholas Gex. Paulus, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7228-0815-4 .

Web links

• Marianne Rolle and AG: Brodard, Rémi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .