Thomas Fraefel

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Thomas Fraefel (born July 10, 1923 in Häfelfingen ; † August 25, 2013 in Zug ; resident in Weingarten , Lommis and Zug) was a Swiss politician (SP) .

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Family and work

Born Catholic , Thomas Fraefel , born in Basel , the son of the primary school teacher and community clerk Ferdinand Fraefel, attended the teachers' seminar in Rickenbach SZ from 1940 to 1944 after visiting the college in Zug . Thomas Fraefel then worked as a primary school teacher in Brunnen , Stans and Zug, in 1960 he took a position as a special school teacher at the upper level of the auxiliary school in the city of Zug, and in 1970 he left the teaching staff. His first marriage was Frieda, the daughter of the master magician Mathias Brucker. In his second marriage he married Boska nee Rakovic. Thomas Fraefel died on August 25, 2013 at the age of 90 in the Cantonal Hospital of Zug.

Political career

Thomas Fraefel, who joined the Social Democratic Party (SP), was elected to the Education Council in 1963. In the same year he was elected to the Zug Cantonal Council , where he acted as parliamentary group leader of the SP and a union representative. In 1971 Fraefel was elected to the government council of the canton of Zug, where he was made head of the sanitary and forestry department, and in 1986 he resigned. He also sat on the National Council from 1975 to 1979 . During his tenure as medical director, a hospital law and the takeover of the Zug Citizens Hospital were implemented by the canton.

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