Roland Eberle

Roland Eberle (born December 7, 1953 in Zurich ) is a Swiss politician ( SVP ). From 2011 to 2019 he represented the Canton of Thurgau in the Council of States .

Education, job and private life

Eberle studied agronomy specializing in agricultural economics at the ETH Zurich . He then worked as an assistant at the Institute for Agricultural Economics at the ETH. In 1984 he became managing director of the Thurgau Farmers' Association, a position he held until his election to the Thurgau government council in 1994. After resigning as a member of the government, he was CEO of Sia Abrasives in Frauenfeld from July 1, 2006 to 2011 . Eberle is also President of the Ittingen Charterhouse Foundation . He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of HRS Holding AG since 2012 . From 2012 to May 2018 he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of De Martin AG, and from spring 2012 to spring 2016 he was a member of the Board of Directors of Spital Thurgau AG; this was criticized as a conflict of interest in connection with the new hospital building in Frauenfeld, for which HRS had applied as a general contractor. He is also a member of various boards of directors, including Groupe Mutuel and Axpo Holding .

The Catholic Eberle is married and has three grown children. He lives in Weinfelden and is a citizen of Flums . In the Swiss Army he held the rank of lieutenant grenadier .

politics

Eberle began his political career in 1988 as a councilor in the SVP parliamentary group. He resigned from this office in 1994 when he was elected to the government council of the canton of Thurgau. There he was head of the Department of Justice and Security and from June 2000 the Department of Finance and Social Affairs. In 2006 he resigned as a government councilor and was no longer politically active. In 2011 he decided to return to politics and ran for the SVP as a Council of States. In the Council of States elections, he was the only candidate to surpass the absolute majority in the first ballot and thus succeeded Hermann Bürgi in the Council of States. In the 2017 winter session, he took over the presidency of the Commission for the Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy (UREK) until he left the small chamber. Roland Eberle did not stand for re-election to the Council of States in 2019. His political activity in Bern ended at the same time as the 50th legislature on December 1, 2019.

In December 2000, Roland Eberle was one of the two official SVP candidates for the 2000 Federal Council election to succeed Adolf Ogi . He was eliminated in the 5th ballot with 17 votes. Even later, in 2008 and 2011, Eberle was repeatedly traded as a candidate for the Federal Council, but he canceled each time.

Eberle was also President of the Federal Refugee Commission from 2000 to 2006.

Web links

• Roland Eberle on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Roland Eberle's website
• Lobbywatch.ch: Personal details of Roland Eberle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HRS press release (PDF; 98 kB), April 26, 2012.
2. ↑ Eberle and Thorner new to the hospital board of directors. In: Appenzeller Zeitung . March 24, 2012.
3. ↑ Board members resign from Spital Thurgau AG. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . 20th November 2015.
4. ↑ Roland Eberle criticized for building a new hospital in Thurgau. In: SRF News . May 8, 2015.
5. ^ Register of interests of the Council of States. (PDF; 135 kB) (No longer available online.) Swiss Parliament, November 2012, archived from the original on October 29, 2012 ; Retrieved November 28, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Federal Assembly. Swiss Parliament, accessed on January 30, 2018
7. ↑ Roland Eberle excludes candidacy. (No longer available online.) In: Thurgauer Zeitung . November 13, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 28, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ↑ Eberle does not want to become a Federal Councilor - but shows that he is noticeably capable of reaching a consensus. In: Tages-Anzeiger . October 27, 2011, accessed October 28, 2011 .