Roland Béguelin

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Left Roland Béguelin, on February 3, 1977, at the ceremony for the adoption by the Constitutional Council of the Constitution of the Canton of Jura.
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Memorial stone for Roland Béguelin in Alle JU

Roland Béguelin (* 12. November 1921 in Tramelan , †  13. September 1993 in Delémont ) was a Swiss politician and chief representative of the Jurassic separatists in the Jura question .

Life

Roland Béguelin was born the son of a long-time unemployed watchmaker and secretary. The member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland did his licentiate in economics in Neuchâtel and from 1945 served as the municipal clerk of Tramelan-Dessus. Even as a student, Béguelin was active on the side of the French-speaking separatists on the Jura question. Among other things, he wrote in an article in the SP newspaper Le Progrès that the municipal authorities of the Bernese Jura should be “cleaned” of candidates with German-speaking Swiss names; Because of this, he was later accused of hating German-speaking Swiss for a long time. In 1947, during the protest triggered by the Moeckli affair , he co-founded the Mouvement séparatiste jurassien and later the Rassemblement jurassien , of which he became general secretary in 1952. He was also editor-in-chief of the Jura Libre newspaper and board member of a Jura printing company.

Béguelin was considered the head of the separatist movement and was also perceived in politics as such. For example, in 1974, at the time of the Béliers ' actions , Federal Councilor Kurt Furgler had a secret meeting with Béguelin. The SP was uncomfortable with his work and they decided to expel him from the cantonal section in 1962; a decision that was never implemented.

When, after several referendums in the Bernese Jura and throughout Switzerland between 1974 and 1978, independence was decided for the northern districts of the Bernese Jura, Roland Béguelin was Vice-President of the constituent assembly of the future Canton of Jura . Between 1979 and 1990 he was in the Jura parliament and its first president. During this time he campaigned for the inclusion of the Canton of Bern remaining Südbezirke the Bernese Jura in the canton of Jura one. In 1993 he died of cancer.

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SURNAME Béguelin, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politicians and separatist leaders
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Tramelan
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1993
Place of death Delémont