Tim Guldimann

Tim Guldimann (2015)

Tim Guldimann (born on September 19, 1950 as Urs Christian Timotheus Guldimann in Zurich ) is a Swiss diplomat , political scientist and politician ( Social Democratic Party of Switzerland ). Guldimann was the Swiss ambassador in Berlin from 2010 to 2015 .

diplomacy

Tim Guldimann joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1982 and worked in Bern , Geneva and Cairo . Guldimann experienced a high point in his diplomatic career in Chechnya , where, as Ambassador and Head of the OSCE Mission from 1996 to 1997, he was largely responsible for the first, later failed Chechnya peace treaty and the elections in February 1997. From 1997 to 1999 he was Head of the OSCE Mission in Croatia .

From 1999 to 2004 he was the Swiss ambassador to Iran . In Iran, Switzerland represents the interests of the USA , which broke off direct diplomatic contact with the country after the hostage-taking of Tehran (from 1979 to 81). Here he acted as an active mediator between Iran and the USA and the different cultures, but was unable to assert himself against the Bush administration with his plans to start direct negotiations between the USA and Iran (see Swiss Memorandum ).

From October 1, 2007 to October 2008, Guldimann was Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo. Guldimann was supposed to take over the post of ambassador to Israel in 2007 , but this was prevented at the last minute after internal disputes in the Swiss Foreign Ministry.

Guldimann was ambassador in Berlin from May 2010 to May 2015 . At the end of February 2014, he was sent as a special envoy to the Ukraine by the OSCE Chairman and Swiss Federal President Didier Burkhalter in addition to his ambassadorial duties in Berlin .

politics

Guldimann has been a member of the Swiss Social Democratic Party since 1982 . He was elected to the National Council for the Canton of Zurich in the 2015 Swiss parliamentary elections on October 18 . Guldimann and his family still live in Berlin. He stated that he would particularly represent the interests of the Swiss abroad. He resigned in March 2018; Fabian Molina took over his seat .

science

From 1989 he was a lecturer for foreign policy at the Universities of Zurich , Freiburg University and Bern . From the latter he received an honorary professorship in 1995.

In order to scientifically process his practical work and findings, he taught at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main from 2005 to 2007 , and held other teaching positions at the University of Bern and at the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin.

additional

Tim Guldimann is married to the German Spiegel journalist Christiane Hoffmann and has two children. Apart from Berlin, Guldimann is at home in the village of Ramosch in the Lower Engadine, where the family owns a house.

Awards

• 1997: Human Rights Prize, International Society for Human Rights , Swiss Section
• 2006: Moses Mendelssohn Prize of the Senate of Berlin "to promote tolerance towards those who think differently and between peoples and religions"
• 2013: Buchmensch 2013 of the Swiss Booksellers and Publishers Association

Publications

• Latin America, the development of underdevelopment. CH Beck, Munich 1975.
  (Guldimann addresses the fact that the countries of Latin America, which were preferred objects of colonialism and imperialism since their conquest by the Europeans because of their natural wealth, belong to the underdeveloped countries. He presents the development of underdevelopment on the basis of historical and systematic Analyzes. Following the Latin American dependence theory, he makes it clear that the underdevelopment of Latin America is a political and not an economic problem.)
• The borders of the welfare state, using the example of Sweden and the Federal Republic. CH Beck, Munich 1976.
• Starnberg Studies II - Social Policy as Social Control. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1978. (together with Marianne Rodenstein, Ulrich Rödel and Frank Stille)
  (This book from the series of Starnberger Studies summarizes works that develop hypotheses about the function of state social policy on the basis of the evaluation of secondary literature The essay by Tim Guldimann deals with the historical development of state social policy in England, France and Sweden. Social policy in these countries in the 19th century was geared towards the autonomous and collective efforts of the workers, to protect oneself against the consequences of reproductive risks, to split off from the illegalized strike funds and to bring them under state control. The establishment of comprehensive social security systems in the first third of the 19th century can be interpreted as social policy “from above”. The control character can be proven. D he fear of the endangerment of the military strength of the nation states by the poor health of potential soldiers and the efforts of the state to curb spending on poor relief are two important influencing factors in the development of state social policy in the first phase up to 1930, examined by Guldimann.)
• State Organized Labor Market and Adjustment of the Unemployed: The Case of Sweden. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1979. (Dissertation)
• Morality and Rule in the Soviet Union. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984.
• Europe platform for a social, ecological and democratic Europe. Together with Switzerland. Position paper of the SP Switzerland. Central Secretariat of the SP Switzerland, Bern 1995.
• Departure Switzerland! Back to our strengths. A conversation. Nagel & Kimche at Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2015. (Together with Christoph Reichmuth and José Ribeaud.)

Web links

Commons : Tim Guldimann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of Tim Guldimann - timguldimann.ch / former website of Tim Guldiman - guldimann.eu (today redirected to timguldimann.ch)
• Tim Guldimann ( memento of October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo
• Enver Robelli: The diplomat with the drum. In: Tages-Anzeiger of March 7, 2014
• Show «Schawinski». Roger Schawinski in conversation with Tim Guldimann. Video in: SRF 1 from September 8, 2014, accessed on February 18, 2018. ( Online )
• Res Strehle : "Here too there was a clash of religions" - Interview with former Federal Councilor Moritz Leuenberger and Ambassador Tim Guldimann. In: Tages-Anzeiger of November 17, 2014, accessed on February 18, 2018.
• Documents by and about Tim Guldimann in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bettina Mutter: Calmy-Rey does not want Guldimann in Israel ( memento from February 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), in: Tages-Anzeiger , November 2, 2007
2. ^ Website of the Swiss Embassy in Berlin
3. ↑ Personal envoy of the OSCE chairperson on Ukraine: Ambassador Tim Guldimann , OSCE
4. ↑ Tim Guldimann as the first Swiss Abroad elected to the National Council , swissinfo , October 19, 2015
5. ↑ Henry Habegger: Tim Guldimann: Ambassador wants to join the National Council for SP - he often travels by plane for election campaigns . Aargauer Zeitung , updated May 17, 2015.
6. ↑ Arthur Rutishauser spoke to Tim Guldimann: “I cannot do politics in Switzerland”: Guldimann resigns . In: Tages-Anzeiger . February 18, 2018, ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed February 19, 2018]).
7. ↑ Fabian Molina. Retrieved March 15, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Tim Guldimann's website > Biography
9. ↑ The ambassador speaks in empty phrases, his wife about politics . In: Tages-Anzeiger , September 13, 2013.
10. ↑ Roger Köppel: "We are doctors, not grave diggers".

predecessor	Office	successor
Rudolf Weiersmüller	Swiss ambassador to Iran 1999–2004	Philippe Welti
Christian Blickenstorfer	Swiss ambassador to Germany 2010–2015	Christine Schraner Burgener