Stefan Cornaz

Family grave in the Hörnli cemetery , Riehen, Basel-Stadt

Stefan Cornaz (born January 28, 1944 in Basel ; † March 15, 2003 ibid) was a Swiss politician ( FDP ) and historian.

Life

Stefan Cornaz, son of a primary school teacher, graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Basel. He studied history, German and Latin at the Universities of Basel and Kiel . His licentiate thesis , submitted in 1974, deals with the emergence of the opinion control mechanism in Switzerland at the beginning of the First World War . 1971–1986 Cornaz worked as a high school teacher and 1986–1995 as secretary of the Basel Chamber of Commerce .

As a member of the Free Democratic Party, Cornaz was a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt from 1980–1992 and a member of the National Council from 1994–1995 . In 1995 he was elected to the government council of Basel-Stadt as the successor to Hans-Rudolf Striebel and took over the management of the education department. At the end of 1999 he resigned for health reasons.

Fonts

with Herbert Hartmann: Orienteering (orienteering) as a leisure sport in schools and clubs. A didactic and methodical introduction, Schorndorf: Verlag Karl Hofmann, 1978
with Roland Hirter: orienteering. Jogging with brains , Bern: Hallwag Verlag, 1981

Web links

Bernard Degen : Cornaz, Stefan. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

^ Government councilor Stefan Cornaz resigns for health reasons , press release, November 9, 1999, website of the canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on August 31, 2013.

personal data
SURNAME	Cornaz, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss politician (FDP) and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 2003
Place of death	Basel

[1] Government councilor Stefan Cornaz resigns for health reasons , press release, November 9, 1999, website of the canton of Basel-Stadt, accessed on August 31, 2013.