Thomas Fuchs (politician)

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Thomas Fuchs (2011)

Thomas Fuchs (born June 18, 1966 in Bern ; resident in Neuenegg ) is a Swiss politician ( SVP ).

job

After finishing school, Fuchs completed an apprenticeship at the mortgage bank in the Canton of Bern. He later graduated as a qualified property manager with a federal certificate. In the meantime he worked in the form of a stage at the private bank Brown Brothers Harriman on Wall Street in New York . After returning to Switzerland, he worked for the Berner Kantonalbank and the Schweizerische Volksbank as a credit specialist. After training as a merchant HKG, dipl. Graduated as a business economist, he has since worked as a management member and credit specialist.

politics

From 1995, Fuchs was a member of the Bern City Council until he was elected to the Grand Council in June 2002 . Until 2002, Fuchs was 1st Vice President of the Young SVP of the Canton of Bern. Since then he has been honorary president of the same cantonal party and an honorary member of the Young SVP Switzerland. Fuchs has been a member of the Justice Commission since 2010.

Fuchs is managing director of the Bern section of the taxpayers' association and president of the civil society association Pro Libertate . He ran for the National Council in 2007 , but was not elected due to a lack of 263 votes. After Adrian Amstutz was elected to the Council of States on March 6, 2011, his seat in the National Council became vacant for Thomas Fuchs. In the elections on October 23, 2011 , Fuchs was not re-elected; this time he was missing 6,168 votes.

In addition to his political activities, Fuchs holds positions in the world of media: Editor Schweizerzeit , publisher of BernAktuell newspaper; Publisher newspaper THE IDEA.

Fuchs is openly gay. He is a colonel in the Swiss Army and lives in Niederbottigen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Page of the Bern Justice Commission. ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gr.be.ch 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. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
  2. ^ Election result of the State Chancellery. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  3. ↑ Amstutz wins by a hair's breadth. Tages-Anzeiger , March 6, 2011.
  4. ^ Election result of the State Chancellery.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nawa.apps.be.ch   Retrieved January 4, 2012.
  5. ^ Title page with subtitle: "The Swiss Association of Bern Aktiv writes what others (are not allowed to) report about Bern and Switzerland." (And sometimes in a form that you weren't allowed to write in school.)
  6. ↑ Issue 2/2014
  7. ^ The SVP kings in the “Garden of Earthly Delights” , view from June 4, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SVP)
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern