Rita Fuhrer

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Rita Fuhrer at a speech on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Glatthalbahn on September 9, 2006 in Uster

Rita Fuhrer (born July 10, 1953 ) is a Swiss politician . She belongs to the Swiss People's Party (SVP) . From 1995 to 2010 she was a member of the government of the Canton of Zurich .

Personal

The home of Rita Fuhrer is Adelboden . She grew up in Thal . After an internship in Lausanne and Lugano , she moved to Beckenried with her future husband . She has lived in Auslikon ( Pfäffikon ZH ) since 1986 . She is a passionate cyclist.

Professional career

Rita Fuhrer has been married since 1972 and has three children. From 1972 to 1994 she worked as an agency manager for a health insurance company. From 1981 until she was elected to the Zurich government council, she worked as a freelancer for various Swiss daily newspapers. From 1995 to 2010 she was a full-time councilor of the Canton of Zurich.

Fuhrer holds various board positions . In June 2010 she was elected to the Board of Directors of Raiffeisen Switzerland .

Political career

Rita Fuhrer began her political career in 1988 as a member of the Pfäffikon secondary school. She held this office until 1990. Between 1989 and 1993 she was also Vice President of the advanced training and career choice school in Wetzikon . From 1990 to 1995 she presided over the Pfäffikon secondary school care.

From 1992 until her election to the government council in 1995, she was a member of the cantonal council . In 1995 she was elected to the government council of the canton of Zurich, whereby she did not achieve a majority in her own constituency. She was confirmed in office in 1999 with the best and in 2003 with the third best result. From 1995 to 2003 she headed the Directorate for Social Affairs and Security. From 2004 until her resignation in April 2010, she was head of the economics directorate.

In 2006/2007 Rita Fuhrer held the post of Vice President of the Government Council for the second time after 1999/2000. In the 2000/2001 term of office, she presided over the government council. In the 2007/2008 term of office, she again presided over the Zurich Government Council.

In 2000 she ran unsuccessfully for the Federal Council seat of the resigned Adolf Ogi ( see Federal Council election 2000 ).

On behalf of the government council, Rita Fuhrer brought together the police and military directorate and the welfare directorate into the directorate for social affairs and security. Under her leadership, the Department of Economics developed an overall traffic concept, the agglomeration program “Settlement and Traffic”, and tackled further basic work.

On August 27, 2009, she announced that she would be stepping down as a member of the government at the end of April 2010 for health reasons. As her successor in the government council, Cantonal Councilor Ernst Stocker (SVP) was elected in the first ballot on November 23, 2009.

In autumn 2014, the SVP brought the recovered former government councilor Rita Fuhrer into play as a promising candidate for the election for a seat on the Council of States. However, this announced on November 19, 2014 for personal reasons not to start.

Airport policy

Since Fuhrer's move to the Department of Economics, like all of her predecessors in office, she has been almost exclusively associated with airport policy. Rita Fuhrer is considered the mother of the Zurich Aircraft Noise Index (ZFI). In contrast to the so-called ceiling initiative, which would like to stipulate a maximum number of 250,000 flight movements per year at the airport , the ZFI is based on the number of people affected by aircraft noise : The aim of the ZFI is to reduce the number of people affected by noise instead of a blanket limit the number of flight movements.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Raiffeisen Switzerland: Former Zurich Government Councilor Rita Fuhrer elected to the Board of Directors" ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / change.ch archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. change.ch, June 13, 2010
  2. ^ Zurich government councilor Fuhrer resigns , NZZ , August 27, 2009
  3. ^ SVP defends second seat in the Zurich government , NZZ, 23 November 2009
  4. ↑ Rita Fuhrer does not want to go back to politics , NZZ, November 19, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Fuhrer, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1953