Reynold Tschäppät
Reynold Tschäppät (born September 3, 1917 in Malleray , † July 3, 1979 in Bern ) was a Swiss politician ( SP ).
Life
Reynold Tschäppät studied and obtained his doctorate (Dr. iur.) At the University of Bern and from 1943 worked as an advocate and employee at the court in Moutier. From 1944 Tschäppät was an employee (adjunct), later under Heinrich Rothmund Vice Director of the refugee affairs department of the FDJP .
In 1948 the Social Democrat was elected to the Bern City Council and two years later to the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern . In 1963 he gave up this mandate because he was elected to the National Council, to which he belonged until his death.
In 1966, after an intensive and very balanced election campaign, he was elected mayor of Bern. The most popular success of his tenure is the roof over the ice rink, a prerequisite for Bern and Geneva to host the ice hockey world championship in 1971 . Other important successes are the Gaskessel youth center , the international military music festival, the zoning plan to maintain comfort and a new building code.
In 1979 Tschäppät decided to run for the Council of States , but fell ill shortly afterwards and died on July 3, 1979. He was buried in the Bremgarten cemetery in Bern . Tschäppät was born in 1946 with Lilly. Bürki had been married and had three sons with her: Reynold, Alexander (also became mayor of Bern) and Philipp.
The popular «city father» once said: «For me, Bern is the most beautiful city in the world. I know that every city president says that about his city. The only difference is: it's true in Bern! "
literature
- Walter Däpp, Bernhard Giger, Jürg Müller-Muralt, Philipp Schori: Tschäppät. One name - 100 years of Bern. Werd & Weber Verlag, Thun 2016, ISBN 978-3-03818-100-2 . With a foreword by Klaus Wowereit . ( about the book )
Web links
- Tschäppät's biography on g26.ch ( memento from October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Christoph Zürcher: Tschäppät, Reynold. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2012.
- Reynold Tschäppät on the website of the Federal Assembly
Karl Zeerleder (1832–1848) | Friedrich Ludwig Effinger (1849–1863) | Christoph Albert Kurz (1864) | Rudolf Otto von Büren (1864–1888) | Eduard Müller (1888–1895) | Franz Lindt (1895–1899) | Adolf von Steiger (1900–1918) | Gustav Müller (1918–1920) | Hermann Lindt (1920–1937) | Ernst Bärtschi (1937–1951) | Otto Steiger (1952–1958) | Eduard Freimüller (1958–1966) | Reynold Tschäppät (1966–1979) | Werner Bircher (1979–1992) | Klaus Baumgartner (1993-2004) | Alexander Tschäppät (2005–2016) | Alec von Graffenried (since 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tschäppät, Reynold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss politician (SP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malleray |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd July 1979 |
| Place of death | Bern |