Roselyne Crausaz

Roselyne Crausaz

Roselyne Crausaz (born March 19, 1943 in Freiburg im Uechtland ) is a Swiss politician and former State Councilor of the Canton of Friborg .

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The Catholic Roselyne Crausaz comes from Cheiry and came to Freiburg through her marriage. Her parents are Aloys Crausaz, head of the cantonal police department, and Yvonne geb. Ayer. She is the only child. In 1988 she married the Hungarian Zoltan Németh.

Roselyne Crausaz successively visited the public school of the city of Freiburg, the school of the Ursulines , the Institute of St. Joseph in the Gauglera ( Sensebezirk ) and the College Heubach, she with the 1962 Matura finished. After a year in England, she studied economics and social sciences at the University of Freiburg and graduated in 1967 with a licentiate .

In 1968 she worked in Bern in the Federal Statistical Office and the next year she moved to what would later become known as the Federal Office for Education and Science. As deputy section head, she was responsible for supporting the universities. In 1986/87 she chaired the conference on university issues, research and higher education of the Council of Europe .

Roselyne Crausaz was one of the first citizens who, initially in vain, sought a seat in the Grand Council. In 1978 she founded the cantonal commission “Women and Society” within the party, later the “Working Group of CVP Women”. In 1980 she was elected to the Grand Council , from which she resigned in 1986. In 1982 she was elected to the General Council of the City of Freiburg, which she headed from April 1982 to April 1983.

In 1986, Roselyne Crausaz was the only female candidate for a Council of State mandate. In the first ballot, in which nobody achieved an absolute majority, she came fourth out of eleven applicants. In the second ballot she was elected second - behind the Social Democrat Félicien Morel - of the remaining nine candidates and was at the top of the Christian Democratic list. She was the first woman in the Freiburg State Council and in all French-speaking governments and the first CVP State Councilor in Switzerland. In the government, the newly elected took over the building management due to her experience in Bern. The work carried out under her leadership concerned in particular the renewal of the Jaunpass road (1989), the project of the bypass road of Estavayer-le-Lac (1990), the renewal and widening of the Pérolles bridge, the total renewal of the Route de la Crausaz (1991) and the lifting of objections for environmental reasons against the construction of the A1 .

In addition, her management developed several structure and sectoral plans: spatial planning, waste management, air pollution control measures and material removal. In addition, there was the noise register of the cantonal roads and the water supply atlas. She created the cantonal commissions for environmental protection and for the directory of contemporary architecture as well as the nature conservation office.

In 1991 Roselyne Crausaz stood for re-election. In the first ballot on November 17th, she achieved 31% of the vote and came sixth out of 21 candidates. On the CVP's ​​list of five names, however, she was last, so that the problem of maintaining her candidacy for the second round arose. According to a rule that the “big old party” has given itself, it contented itself with three seats in the State Council. Given the circumstances, Roselyne Crausaz decided to withdraw.

On July 16, 1991 she was awarded the gold medal for “Services to Europe”. In 1995 she ran for the National Council on the SVP list , but was unsuccessful. With that she ended her political career.

Now a second life began for Crausaz with activities in many areas. In 1992 she organized several scientific, economic and political congresses in Switzerland, Europe and Asia. In 1994/95 she commissioned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to monitor its management. As part of Expo.02 , she was chief of protocol at Arteplage Murten. In the social field, she was the initiator of the Fondation Paix 21 in 2005, which she directed and which built a district hospital in Beirut (2007) and an outpatient clinic in Chad (2010). In 2011 she organized the international cultural festival “Makel los” for and by people with disabilities in Freiburg.

Roselyne Crausaz headed numerous associations, including the Friends of Archeology, the Friends of the Swiss Puppet Theater Museum and the Bindschedler Foundation. She was also a co-founder of the Freiburg section (1970) of the Swiss Association of Women Academics, a board member of the Organization of the Swiss Abroad and a member of the Federal OASI Commission.

literature

• Georges Andrey , Hubertus von Gemmingen (translation): The Freiburg State Council: 1848–2011; History, organization, members . Ed .: John Clerc, Jean-Pierre Dorand, Nicholas Gex. Paulus, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7228-0815-4 .

Web links

• Vita (French)
• Zoé Kergomard: Roselyne Crausaz. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . June 12, 2019 , accessed July 23, 2019 .