Tito Tettamanti

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Tito Tettamanti (2013)

Tito Tettamanti (born October 6, 1930 in Lugano ) is a Swiss lawyer , politician , Ticino State Councilor of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP), entrepreneur and capitalist .

biography

Tettamanti is the only child of an authorized signatory. He studied law at the University of Bern , received his doctorate in 1953 and was admitted to the bar in 1955 . He started working as a lawyer in the same year and opened his own lawyer and notary's office in Lugano in 1959. From 1955 to 1959 he was a CVP politician on the Grand Council of the Canton of Ticino. In 1959 he was elected to the State Council and headed the Justice and Police Department. Eighteen months later, he was fined for tax evasion following a scandal over tax evasionthat he had shortened arbitrarily for a building contractor. In the sixties and seventies he worked as a trustee and real estate investor, first in Ticino and later in Canada. In the 1980s he participated in New York as a financial speculator in the restructuring of companies such as United Airlines and Gillette . After the stock market crash of 1987, Tettamanti returned to Switzerland and, as a shareholder in traditional Swiss mechanical engineering companies such as Sulzer AG , Saurer or Rieter, took on the entire Swiss business establishment. In 2005 he made a name for himself with his engagements at Ascom and SIG Holding .

Tettamanti worked as a journalist as a book author and as the main owner of Jean Frey AG , a Swiss publisher . In this role he positions himself as a libertarian visionary who fights against political correctness and for a culture of debate. In columns that he wrote for the Switzerland supplement of the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit from 2013 to 2017 , he praised China's economic policy and sees the reason for unemployment in an education system that does not demand enough of children and young people. As a declared capitalist who advocates economic liberalism , he finds his opponents among “left” journalists. In July 2006, Tettamanti brought Roger Köppel back to Weltwoche and sold him the magazine.

On February 8, 2010 it was announced that Tettamanti, together with the Basel media lawyer Martin Wagner, was taking over the Basler Zeitung Medien . The two bought the shares of the Hagemann publishing family and Publigroupe . For his part, Wagner sold the Basel private radio Radio Basilisk to the Hagemann family on January 21 , which he owned 100 percent. On November 24, 2010, Tettamanti and Wagner sold the entire shares in Basler Zeitung Medien to Crossair founder Moritz Suter . In December 2011, the Basler Zeitung came back into Tettamanti's sphere of influence through the newly founded "MedienVielfalt Holding". He justified his commitment in an interview with the Tages-Anzeiger as a contribution to restoring “real diversity” in the Swiss print media landscape. According to his own statements, he took over the Basler Zeitung from Rahel Blocher, a daughter of Christoph Blocher , who after disputes with Moritz Suter apparently caused him to sell the shares to her in accordance with a non-public agreement. Since the end of June 2014, the Basler Zeitung has been owned by Markus Somm , Christoph Blocher and Rolf Bollmann. They took over the shares from "MedienVielfalt Holding". The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

Tettamanti served as Chairman of the Board of Sterling Strategic Value Limited until 2012 and has been Honorary Chairman of the Board since that year. In January 2017, Sterling Strategic Value Limited became an alternative investment fund under Luxembourg law and was renamed Sterling Strategic Value Fund SA. Tettamanti continues to hold the office of honorary president. He was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of several companies, including ST Group Holding Inc., ST Real Estate Holding Inc. and ST Services Holding Inc., and still holds the position of Honorary Chairman of ST Real Estate Holding Inc., ST Australia Real Estate Inc. and ST USA Real Estate Inc.

Since 2008 Tettamanti has been president of the Fidinam Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports projects in the fields of education, research, health, social and economic development. The Fidinam Foundation is supervised by the Federal Department of Home Affairs. The board of the Fidinam Foundation also consists of Massimo Pedrazzini, Roberto Grassi, Tiziano Moccetti, Alessandra Niedecker and Konrad Hummler. Tettamanti has been President of the Fidinam International Charity Foundation since 2009. In 2018, his fortune was estimated by the Swiss business magazine Bilanz at CHF 950 million.

He is married with three daughters and lives in Lugano after returning from London in 2010.

Publications

  • with Alfonso Tuor: T contro T - Disuguaglianza, Disagio, Democrazia. Edizioni San Giorgio, Muzzano 2019, ISBN 978-88-90507-03-8 .
  • Flash. Armando Dadò Editore, Locarno 2018, ISBN 978-88-8281-506-6 .
  • with Alfonso Tuor: T contro T - Te lo do io il liberismo. Edizioni San Giorgio, Muzzano 2017, ISBN 88-905070-1-2 .
  • The seven sins of capital. Bilanz Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-909167-94-2 .
  • with Alfredo Bernasconi: Manifesto for a Liberal Society. Ammann, Zurich 1996, ISBN 3-250-10296-2 .
  • Which Europe? The Europe of the merchants or the Europe of the bureaucrats? Ammann, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-250-10229-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gret Heer: "No Billag, No Switzerland - what nonsense!" Interview in: SonntagsZeitung on February 25, 2018 (fee required).
  2. ↑ Tito Tettamanti and Martin Wagner buy “Basler Zeitung Medien”. In: persoenlich.com . February 8, 2010.
  3. ↑ Basilisk. The Hagemann family buys radio. In: persoenlich.com. January 21, 2010.
  4. ↑ Suter buys “Basler Zeitung” and ends Blocher's mandate. In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 24, 2010.
  5. ↑ Big change for «Basler Zeitung». In: 10vor10 . November 24, 2010 (video, approx. 8 min).
  6. ^ "Basler Zeitung" goes to Tito Tettamanti. In: NZZ Online . December 14, 2011.
  7. ↑ Daniel Schindler and David Thommen: “I am for liberal music”. In: Tages-Anzeiger . December 15, 2011 (interview with Tito Tettamanti).
  8. ↑ Basler Zeitung has new owners. In: Website of the Basler Zeitung Medien. June 30, 2014.
  9. ^ "Tito Tettamanti: Ticked off". In: Balance . February 27, 2013.
  10. ↑ Who we are. In: Website of the Fidinam Foundation.
  11. ↑ People: Tito Tettamanti. In: Bilanz.ch (as of November 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Tettamanti, Tito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer, politician (CVP), entrepreneur and financier
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Lugano