Roland Wiederkehr

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Roland Wiederkehr in 1991 in the National Council

Roland Wiederkehr (born January 27, 1943 in Bern ) is a Swiss politician . From 1987 to 2003 he was a member of the National Council , until 1999 for the Landesring der Independentigen of the Canton of Zurich , then as a non-party.

activities

From 1968 to 1987 Wiederkehr was head of WWF Switzerland , founded in 1961 , which he developed as the first full-time managing director from a one-man business to an organization with around 100 employees, and co-initiator of the Swiss Transport Club (VCS) .

In March 1991, Wiederkehr asked the Swiss Federal Council with a postulate to consider the establishment of an international environmental institution "Green Cross". In 1992 he campaigned across Switzerland with a petition for a World Green Cross, which was founded in Bern in December 1992. In June 1992 at the environmental summit in Rio de Janeiro , Mikhail Sergejewitsch Gorbachev also spoke out in favor of setting up an international organization to combat environmental disasters. The two initiatives merged in June 1993 in Kyoto to form the International Green Cross Foundation , with Gorbachev as President and Wiederkehr as first director, based in Geneva.

In 1991, Wiederkehr accompanied the first federal youth session to mark the 700th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation and campaigned for the youth session to take place in the Federal Palace every year since 1993 .

In 1997, Wiederkehr submitted the first advance for an underground through station in Zurich, which the Federal Council accepted. The SBB stuck to the plans for a wing station. However, the persistence of the Zurich traffic planner Paul Stopper and Cantonal Councilor Gabi Petri turned the tide: in 1991 the people of Zurich said yes to the diameter line with a large majority. Today the underground station has been built and is the pride of the SBB.

In 2007, Wiederkehr founded the CareCross Foundation for Health and Environment, thereby launching a discussion about cancer therapies and their high costs. He propagated the cell symbiosis therapy (inter alia with curcumin) of the German doctor Heinrich Kremer. For CareCross, Wiederkehr also explored whether hypnosis is a good alternative or an additional means to conventional healing methods in medicine. He trained as a hypnotherapist and helped found the Swiss Professional Association for Hypnotherapy. In October 2017, Wiederkehr was honored by the Global Goodwill Ambassadors on LinkedIn movement for his life's work and the work of his CareCross health foundation .

Roland Wiederkehr was the founder and until 2008 also managing director of RoadCross , the foundation for traffic safety. From 2012 to 2016 he carried out a project in Poland to improve road safety as part of Switzerland's Cohesion Billion (enlargement contribution for the new eastern EU states). With the exchange of police and experts between Switzerland and Poland, with campaigns and new laws based on the Swiss model, it was possible to reduce the annual number of accident fatalities from 4200 to below 3000. In May 2016, Wiederkehr received the President Award of the European Traffic Police Association TISPOL . Wiederkehr received the award, which is given for outstanding work in favor of road safety, "for his thirty years of commitment to fewer deaths and injuries in traffic and for more help for victims". In Switzerland and Poland he saved the lives of thousands of people.

Until 2015, road safety was not a goal of UN development cooperation, despite around 1.3 million deaths and more than 50 million serious injuries per year. Wiederkehr worked to ensure that Switzerland's official recommendation to the United Nations for the realignment of the development goals also included road safety. Road safety is now part of the 2030 Agenda, the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals . According to the World Health Organization (WHO), developing and emerging countries have to spend 1 to 3% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on coping with the consequences of road accidents. That is twice as much as these countries receive in international development funds. In 2017, Wiederkehr ran the “A new leg for 100 francs” campaign with the CareCross Foundation to raise awareness of this problem. The aim was for Switzerland to supplement its development policy with road safety projects in low and middle income countries.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Basis versus business. Retrieved April 20, 2011 .
  2. ↑ The Crusader of the Sacrifice. Retrieved January 4, 2009 .
  3. ^ International environmental institution "Green Cross". Archived from the original on March 18, 2017 ; Retrieved April 22, 2017 .
  4. ↑ 1998 P 97.3677 Underground station instead of wing station in Zurich. Retrieved December 26, 2010 .
  5. ↑ The station inventors. Retrieved December 26, 2006 .
  6. ↑ The third crusade of Roland Wiederkehr. Archived from the original on October 1, 2012 ; Retrieved July 15, 2008 .
  7. ↑ (SBVH) board of the Swiss professional association for hypnosis therapy.
  8. ↑ Global Goodwill Ambassadors: 02 - 2018 - Global Goodwill Ambassadors founded by Richard DiPilla - Newsletter of February 14, 2018
  9. ↑ Polish speeders. Retrieved May 6, 2015 .
  10. ^ [1] , press release European Traffic Police Network TISPOL from June 16, 2016
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of February 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Communication Road Cross Switzerland of May 23, 2016
  12. ^ UN General Assembly adopts a resolution on "Improving global road safety". Retrieved April 15, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Helene Arnet: A new leg costs 100 francs. In: Tages-Anzeiger of March 21, 2017
  14. ↑ Iwan Santoro: Against death on the street. In: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen from March 21, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Return, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern