Ruedi Bantle

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Rudolf “Ruedi” Bantle (born June 19, 1926 in Basel ; † December 24, 2017 ; resident in Basel) was a Swiss politician ( PdA ).

Life

Ruedi Bantle was born in 1926 on Hammerstrasse in Kleinbasel as the son of a post office clerk into a trade union home. His father had been a member of the Swiss Communist Party (KPS) since 1921 and, after its ban in 1944, a founding member of the Labor Party (PdA).

From 1942 Bantle completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic . He worked for 25 years in this profession, first in the Rhine port as a crane operator, temporarily in Bulgaria in a brigade in railway construction .

Politically, Bantle was active in the Free Youth Baselland from 1946 to 1956 , initially as a simple member, later as a leader. From 1954 to 1956 he was secretary of the Free Youth of Switzerland. He was also a member of the Swiss Metal and Watch Workers' Association (Smuv). He had already joined the Labor Party in 1947. In 1956 he was elected to the Central Committee of the PdA Switzerland. After 1962 the PdA sent him to the cadre school in Moscow for three years; his wife Erika (* 1935 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) accompanied him. From 1977 to 1991 he was a member of the Politburo of the PdA Switzerland.

From 1970 Bantle worked professionally as secretary of the PdA Basel. Within the PdA Basel, Ruedi Bantle and his wife took on an intermediary function for the New Social Movements . After his dismissal in connection with disputes about direction in 1984, he was unemployed for about a year until 1985/86 he worked as an editor for the newspaper Vorwärts . He has not been employed since then. As a result of the Sandinista election victory in 1984, Bantle went to Nicaragua with his wife for half a year in 1987 . He was a co-founder of the New PdA Basel , which - after the PdA Basel was excluded from the PdA Switzerland - was accepted on March 5, 1989 as its Basel section.

Bantle was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt from 1972 to 1984 . Among other things, he campaigned for outpatient clinics in the neighborhoods, for a new demolition law, for the “Green instead of gray” initiative and for the parking initiative. From 1991 to 1993 and again from 1999 to 2005 Bantle was a member of the Citizens' Council of the City of Basel. In the summer of 2006 he resigned from all positions.

Together with his wife, Ruedi Bantle began collecting graphics from left-wing artists from 1951, including works by Käthe Kollwitz , George Grosz , Paul Camenisch and Frans Masereel . Most of them were sold at sales exhibitions in 1999, 2002, 2007 and 2011 for the benefit of social projects in Vietnam and Africa, the newspaper Vorwärts , the Central America Committee and a home for the disabled in Havana.

literature

  • Ruedi Bantle: Ladies and gentlemen. In: Forward . Vol. 55 (1999), No. 37/38 (opening speech as senior president of the Citizens' Council).
  • The Bantles: «We carry on». In: Basler Zeitung . April 30, 1999.
  • André Rauber: Formed resistance. History of the communist movement in Switzerland 1944–1991. Edition 8, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85990-033-1 .
  • Ruedi Bantle celebrates his 80th. In: Forward. Vol. 62 (2006), No. 25/26 (June 23, 2006), p. 2 ( PDF ( Memento of August 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive )).
  • Udo Theiss, Livio Marc Stöckli: Ruedi Bantle, a lifelong communist. In: TagesWoche . May 1, 2014 ( online ).
  • Grown into the PdA. In: Forward. Vol. 72 (2016), July 1, 2016 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituaries for the Basel region , TagesWoche , accessed on January 19, 2018.
  2. ↑ bereavement Bantle bath Rudolf , todesanzeigenportal.ch, accessed on 19 January 2018th
personal data
SURNAME Bantle, Ruedi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bantle, Rudolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 2017