Thomas Minder

Thomas Minder (2015)

Thomas Minder (born December 26, 1960 in Schaffhausen ; resident in Biel / Bienne ) is a Swiss entrepreneur and politician (non-party).

Life

After compulsory schooling, Minder attended the École Supérieure de Commerce de Neuchâtel and later graduated from Fordham University in New York with an MBA . In the Swiss Army , he commanded a fusilier company . Minder has been managing director since 1994 and chairman of the board of directors of the cosmetics manufacturer Trybol AG in Neuhausen am Rheinfall , which has been owned by the Minder family since 1963.

Minder became known nationwide through the federal popular initiative he launched in 2008 "against rip-off" , which was adopted on March 3, 2013 with a large majority. It was also the trigger for the federal “ Swissness ” legislation to better protect the Swiss brand. Until his election to the Council of States, Minder held no political office. Minder actively supported the federal popular initiative “Against mass immigration” , which the people accepted on February 9, 2014.

In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2011 , the non-party minor was elected to the Council of States for the canton of Schaffhausen . After the faction of the Green Liberal Party refused to join the party because it had not been assured, Minder joined the faction of the Swiss People's Party (SVP). In 2015 and 2019 he was re-elected in the first ballot.

Minder lives in Neuhausen am Rheinfall.

Awards

• SwissAward 2013 in the “Politics” category.
• European of the Year 2014, Reader's Digest magazine .

literature

• Thomas Minder , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 12/2013 from March 19, 2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Thomas Minder on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Thomas Minder's website
• Vested interests of Thomas Minder on lobbywatch.ch
• Show «Schawinski». Roger Schawinski in conversation with Thomas Minder. Video in: Swiss television from April 23, 2012 ( online, 31 minutes )
• Show «Schawinski». Roger Schawinski in conversation with Thomas Minder. Video in: Swiss television from February 4, 2013 ( online, 28 minutes )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of Trybol AG Website of Trybol AG, accessed on May 25, 2018.
2. ↑ Patrick Feuz: Thomas Minder rushes to help the SVP. In: Tages-Anzeiger of December 9, 2013
3. ↑ Thomas Minder joins the SVP parliamentary group. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of November 29, 2012
4. ↑ Thomas Minder can easily manage re-election . In: The Landbote . October 19, 2015, p. 11 . Daniel Zinser: Germann and Minder re-elected - debacle for Amsler. In: Schaffhauser Nachrichten . October 20, 2019, accessed March 22, 2020 .  
5. ↑ Manuela Donati, Markus Krucker: “SwissAward”: an overview of the winners. In: SRF 1 from January 12, 2014
6. ↑ Voice of the people: Thomas Minder is the European of the year 2014. In: presseportal.de of January 21, 2014