Robert Huber (politician)

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Robert Huber (born October 11, 1933 in Bilten ; † November 23, 2016 ; resident in Savognin ) was a Swiss - Yenish politician and former president of the Radgenossenschaft der Landstrasse .

Robert Huber (2008)

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His mother, who with her second husband already had eleven children and two children from his first marriage, gave him to relatives in Obervaz . There, Robert Huber was at the age of two and a half years in train the action Children of the Street Children's Fund of Juventute Pro taken away the family and placed in a children's home. Until he was twenty, he was cared for in more than a dozen homes or as a contract child in family places. He successfully resisted an attempt by the Pro Juventute to keep him incapacitated as an adult.

After returning to the milieu of his Yenish relatives, he began a professional life as a traveling merchant. After marrying in 1963 and starting a family in Zurich, Robert Huber approached the Yenish and Travelers Movement, which became active in the 1970s and led to the establishment of the Landstrasse bicycle cooperative in 1975. In the wake of turbulence after the founding years with changing presidencies, he was first elected to the board and on February 23, 1985, surprisingly, he was elected president.

He set up a permanent office as an internal contact point and representative for the media and authorities. At the beginning of his term of office, travelers occupied the Lido site in Lucerne with their caravans in a sensational campaign on May 20, 1985 to draw attention to the demand for a stand for travelers. After a four-week campaign, they managed to get such a place approved.

During the time of his work, negotiations with the Pro Juventute and the Swiss Confederation about the publication of the Pro Juventute files, the Federal Council's apology for the actions of the Pro Juventute Foundation, the federal commission for a historical study on the “ Aktion Kinder der Landstrasse »the arrangement of reparation payments to those affected, the establishment of the Holocaust Fund for victims of the Second World War including Roma, Sinti and Yenish, as well as the recognition of travelers in Switzerland as a national minority. As a minority politician, Robert Huber was heavily involved in all of these problem areas and proved to be a “bridge builder”.

Huber cultivated a pragmatic approach to controversial issues of the movement and was not a friend of sharp demarcations. He saw the Yenish and Travelers as a people of their own, a "mixed people" that had arisen on European soil. And he was also involved as a representative of the interests of Sinti and Roma, especially when it came to helping the Holocaust victims to receive late compensation.

In 2009 Huber received the Fischhof Prize for his life's work , which is awarded by the Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism (GRA) and the Society for Minorities in Switzerland (GMS). In 2012, Huber resigned as president. His son Daniel Huber was elected as his successor.

literature

  • Willi Wottreng : Gypsy chief. From the child of the country road to the spokesman for travelers - the fate of Robert Huber. Orell Füssli-Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-280-06121-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NZZ: Yeniche in Switzerland President Huber for many years died at the age of 83
  2. ^ Beginning of the Pro Juventute files on March 2, 1936; according to Surses district archive, guardianship files Robert Huber No. 020, according to Wottreng, p. 81.
  3. ^ The Small Council of the Canton of Graubünden, meeting of March 26, 1954, Minutes No. 642; District archive Surses, Savognin, guardianship files Robert Huber No. 033-038, acc. Wottreng p. 24.
  4. ↑ Radgenossenschaft, Zurich, to the commercial register office Kriegstetten, with reference to the resolution of February 16, 1985, regarding "Change in administration"; Documentation center of the bicycle cooperative, folder "Radgenossenschaft, 1985", acc. Wottreng, p. 57.
  5. ↑ Gypsies occupy the parking lot in Lucerne. Requirement for fixed stands. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 22, 1985.
  6. ^ Judgment by Claudia Kaufmann, former Secretary General of the Department of the Interior, December 12, 2006, quoted in Wottreng, p. 148.
  7. ↑ Robert Huber, quoted in Wottreng, p. 46.
  8. ↑ folder series "Holocaust Fund"; Documentation center of the wheel cooperative; see Wottreng, p. 150.
  9. ↑ Fischhof Prize. Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism GRA, 2009, accessed August 6, 2010 .
  10. ↑ Fischhof Prize. Society for minorities in Switzerland GMS, October 29, 2009, accessed on August 6, 2010 .
  11. ↑ Extract from the commercial register
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilten
DATE OF DEATH 23rd November 2016