State clerk
The government clerk , ratchet driver , Chancellor , Landschreiber or office director (depending on the canton) is in Switzerland , the Secretary General of the cantonal government and in some cantons also the cantonal parliament and is administrative in this function Head of State .
history
Early references to these activities can be found e.g. B. 1309 in Nidwalden , 1348 in Obwalden , 1386 in Uri , 1402/16 in Canton Schwyz and 1409 in Canton Appenzell . With the increasing written form since the middle of the 15th century and the expansion of the respective state sovereignty, a professionalized administrative organization became necessary, which made the office one of the central pillars of the respective administrations. Even today z. For example, the heads of the state chancelleries of the cantons of Bern , Lucerne , Solothurn , Thurgau and Zurich are called state clerks.
Well-known state clerks are:
- Hans Schriber von Obwalden, author of the White Book of Sarnen
- the poet Gottfried Keller , who was the first state secretary of the Canton of Zurich from 1861 to 1876
- Georg Fient , Graubünden office director from 1891–1912, one of the most popular folk writers of his time
Women have rarely been elected to office. With Anja Wyden Guelpa , Geneva became the first canton to have a state chancellor in 2009, and in 2016, the Basel-city state clerk Barbara Schüpbach-Guggenbühl became the first woman president of the centenary state clerks' conference .
See also
literature
- Hermann Bischofberger: Landschreiber. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Hans Max Kriesi: Gottfried Keller as a politician. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld and Leipzig 1918.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carlo Pisani, Marc-André Miserez, Renat Kuenzi, swissinfo.ch: The Chancellor who speaks to the young . In: SWI swissinfo.ch . ( swissinfo.ch [accessed on November 13, 2018]).
- ^ President of the State Scribers Conference from Basel . In: bz Basel . ( bzbasel.ch [accessed on November 13, 2018]).