Silvio Bircher

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Silvio Bircher (born September 25, 1945 in Aarau , resident in Aarau and Küttigen ) is a Swiss politician ( SP ).

education and profession

Bircher studied political science and economics at the University of St. Gallen . After graduating, he worked as deputy director of the Stapferhaus conference center at Lenzburg Castle. He then worked as editor-in-chief of the SP daily newspaper “Freier Aargauer”. Later he got involved in adult education. Bircher was the central president of Naturfreunde Schweiz (1981 to 1989), president of the Tour de Sol and regional president of Coop - Northwestern Switzerland . After 30 years of active political activity in the federal government and in Aargau, he has been working as a freelance journalist since 1999. Author of several political books and writings and permanent collaboration as a political expert at the TV station Tele M1. Member of the SBB Board of Directors for eight years. Voluntary as a board member of Switzerland. Scout Foundation and President of the Roggenhausen Wildlife Park Association. The Federal Council elected him in 2003 as Vice President of the Swiss Landscape Fund.

Political career

Bircher was first active in the Grand Council of the Canton of Aargau from 1969 to the end of 1979 and was elected to the National Council on November 26, 1979 , to which he was a member until the end of May 1993. As a federal As a parliamentarian, he was involved in foreign, economic and environmental policy and, with a parliamentary initiative, achieved the introduction of the 100-franc half-fare train ticket. With a further parliamentary initiative, he initiated the abolition of the so-called cantonal clause in Federal Council elections, according to which only one member of each canton was allowed to belong to the state government at the same time. He also campaigned for the realization of the Furka mountain route steam train and for landscape protection. EFTA Commission President of both federal Councils. On December 6, 1992, he was elected to the government council , to which he was a member until the end of 1998. District President (Landammann) 1996/97. As a government councilor, Bircher laid several foundations in his department for the modernization of the cantonal structures, for example with the revision of the financial equalization system, the judicial laws, the economic law, the law on foreigners, a new prison concept, the introduction of regional employment centers (RAV). He represented the Aargau in the economics and justice and police directors conference. Political commentator and author since 1999.

Private

Bircher is married to the artist Béatrice Bircher-Müller and has two children.

Fonts

  • Political parties in Aargau: from the beginning to the present. In: Argovia 2018, annual publication of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau. Verlag Hier und Jetzt, Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-03919-456-8 .
  • Close to current events. Zofingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-033-04768-6 .
  • Bundeshaus voting carousel: controversial Federal Council elections and Swiss politics. Baden [etc.]: AT-Verlag, Baden [u. a.] 2007, ISBN 978-3-03800-327-4 .
  • Politics and economics of the Aargau: a civics and economics for everyone. Aarau AT-Verlag, 1979, ISBN 3-85502-056-6 .
  • Europe and us. In: Issue 2 of Der Berufsschüler. Verlag für Berufsbildung Sauerländer, 1981, ISSN  0378-6927 (32 pages).
  • For a new labor market policy. In: Die Volkswirtschaft 10/97, Eidg. Volkswirtschaftsdepartement, Bern 1997, ISSN  1011-386X .
  • Vocational training in upheaval - or in the area of ​​tension between the federal government and the cantons. In: Enlightenment down to the lowlands - Politics in the Swiss Plateau. Aarau 1993, ISBN 3-85502-490-1 .
  • The Pestalozzi example. Stapferhaus texts, Lenzburg 1997.
  • Cantonal mergers as a future problem for federalism. In: Federalism has a future. NHG, Verlag Sauerländer, Aarau / Frankfurt a. Main 2002, ISBN 978-3-7253-0916-0 .
  • New balance of power among the parties. In: Helvetic uncertainties. NHG, Verlag Rüegger, Zurich / Chur 2009, ISBN 3-0345-0024-6 .
  • SPS theses for environmentally friendly transport / Silvio Bircher, President of the SPS Transport Commission. Publication of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, Bern 1989.
  • Rejection of privatization in prison. In: Switzerland. Legal journal 14/1997, Zurich 1997.
  • The Roggenhausen Wildlife Park - «Switzerland's most beautiful deer park». Aarau 2014, ISBN 978-3-033-04355-8 .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government councilor Silvio Bircher resigns. Canton of Aargau , accessed on November 11, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Bircher, Silvio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau