Ruth Genner

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Ruth Genner (born January 13, 1956 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss politician ( Greens ). From 2001 to 2008 she was President of the Swiss Green Party, from 1998 to 2008 member of the National Council and from 2008 to 2014 in the City Council , the government of the City of Zurich . During the time of the National Council, she was also a member of the parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe and, as President of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population & Development, worked regularly for the United Nations .

job

After secondary school in Schaffhausen, Ruth Genner studied food science at the ETH Zurich and graduated with a diploma. Food engineer ETH from. In 1981 she became a research assistant at the food science institute at ETH Zurich. 1991–1997 she held a teaching position, was active in research and headed the food sensor technology department. 1997–1999 she was a research assistant at the Pestalozzianum Zurich with a focus on health promotion in schools. She then worked freelance and as a project manager in the field of health promotion. Since 1999 she has been a member of the board of directors and since 2005 chairwoman of the board of directors of bio.inspecta . From 2007 until her election to the city council in 2008, she was also President of Aids-Hilfe Schweiz .

politics

Ruth Genner as guest of honor at CSD Zurich 2008

In 1987 Ruth Genner was a founding member of the Green District Party of Zurich 2. From 1987 to 1997 she was a member of the Zurich Cantonal Council , and from 1998 until she was elected city councilor she was a national councilor . From 2004 to 2008 Ruth Genner was the sole president of the Swiss Green Party, after she was co-president from 2001 to 2003 together with National Councilor Patrice Mugny . Ruth Genner's predecessor as president of the Swiss Green Party was Ruedi Baumann from Bern from 1997 to 2001 and her successor after 2008 was Ueli Leuenberger from Geneva .

In the 2003 Federal Council elections , Genner stood ready for the Federal Council election if the right-wing conservative Christoph Blocher had not been elected. The SVP had announced that it would become an opposition party if Blocher himself was not elected to the Federal Council. This would have meant that an additional seat in the Federal Council would have become free. In this election, however, CVP Federal Councilor Ruth Metzler was voted out and Blocher entered the state government. Genner's possible candidacy was therefore invalid. With Blocher's election, the magic formula of the party composition of the Swiss Federal Council was broken for the first time .

Ruth Genner's candidacy in the replacement election for the resigned SVP government councilor Christian Huber in the Zurich government council on February 27, 2005 helped her to achieve a result that exceeded the Green Party's share of the vote. Nevertheless, it was relatively clearly defeated by the other two candidates. Many voters in the election between Ruth Genner, Toni Bortoluzzi and Hans Hollenstein were about preventing the SVP candidate Bortoluzzi. CVP candidate Hollenstein was given greater chances of beating Bortoluzzi. That is why many leftists voted for the bourgeois Hollenstein, who ultimately won the election. Right from the start, Genner's candidacy was not seen as having great chances, as it primarily had the strategic function of using the election campaign as a platform to bring green issues into the public debate.

After the resignation of the free-spirited Zurich government councilor Dorothée Fierz , Ruth Genner ran again for the election on July 9, 2006. She received 42 percent of the vote, which must be seen as a respectable success in terms of the Green Party's share of the vote. The liberal Ursula Gut was elected with 57 percent of the vote, after an election campaign that had been hyped as a choice between a bourgeois government and a left-dominated government. In the run-up to the elections, political opponents described Ruth Genner as very left for tactical reasons.

Under Genner's (co) leadership, the party achieved great electoral successes: in the federal parliamentary elections in 2003 , the Greens achieved the best result in their history with 7.6 percent, and in the Zurich cantonal elections in 2007, the Swiss Greens' share of the vote even exceeded that for the first time 10 percent mark. In addition, never before had such a large number of green politicians been elected to executive offices.

In the national elections Genner was several times "Panaschierkönigin", d. that is, it was able to unite the greatest number of votes from outside the party. On October 30, 2007, she announced that she would resign as President of the Green Party on April 26, 2008, as the party statutes provide for a term limit. From 2007 until she was elected to the executive branch of the City of Zurich, Genner was also President of Aids-Hilfe Schweiz . In this function she was guest of honor at the CSD in Zurich in 2008.

On June 1, 2008, she was elected as a Zurich city councilor to succeed her party colleague Monika Stocker . She announced that she would now be giving up her seat on the National Council. According to the municipal municipal code “Lex Wagner” (Art. 48 Paragraph 2), she was not allowed to hold this double mandate. Party colleague Katharina Prelicz-Huber inherited her seat in the National Council .

Since 2008 she has been the head of the civil engineering and waste disposal department of the city of Zurich as city councilor. The department consists of the four service departments Civil Engineering, Waste Management + Recycling, Green City Zurich and Geomatics + Surveying.

At the beginning of 2013, Genner had to take a two-month break due to heart problems. After her recovery, she gradually resumed business. On May 23, 2013, she announced that she would no longer run for the general election of the city council in spring 2014. During her break, she saw that there was something other than politics.

Ruth Genner has been President of the Organization of the Zurich Hiking Trails , which is a member of the Swiss Hiking Trails , since 2016 .

Personal

Ruth Genner is widowed and has two grown daughters. She has been in a relationship with Peter Jossen , a social democratic politician from the canton of Valais, since 2011 .

Web links

Commons : Ruth Genner  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Bernet: Green personalities. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Swiss Green Party, April 2013, archived from the original on July 25, 2016 ; Retrieved July 25, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gruene.ch
  2. ↑ Interview in the SF election studio, June 1, 2008
  3. ↑ Municipal Code of the City of Zurich, as of January 1, 2017
  4. ↑ Ruth Genner ends in 2014 In: 20min.ch . May 23, 2013. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
  5. ↑ Zurich hiking trails | Zurich hiking trails. Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
  6. ↑ New love: Ruth Genner. In: Blick.ch . November 3, 2011, accessed July 12, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Genner, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (GPS)
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen