Urs Kälin (politician)

Urs Kälin (born September 24, 1959 in Altdorf UR ; legal resident in Einsiedeln ) is a Swiss historian and politician ( SP ).

Life

Urs Kälin grew up in Andermatt and Altdorf UR . He attended the Altdorf Primary School and the Uri Cantonal Middle School , which he completed in 1979 with the Matura Type C. He then studied general history, modern German literature and political science at the University of Zurich . After the Licentiate (1984), he received his doctorate in 1991 under Professor Rudolf Braun (historian) with a thesis on the Urner upper classes in the 18th and 19th centuries. After graduating, Urs Kälin worked as a secondary school teacher, on the inventory of historical traffic routes in Switzerland and between 1992 and 1996 as a research assistant at the Swiss University Conference in Bern. Since 1996 he has been deputy director of the Swiss Social Archives in Zurich. Urs Kälin is the author of numerous scientific publications, in particular on the social history of the Old Confederation and the history of the labor movement and work. Urs Kälin is married and has three grown children.

Political career

Kälin was politicized in the anti-nuclear movement in the late 1970s . He then got involved with the Uri committee for real community service and between 1985 and 1992 on the board of the Uri section of the Swiss Transport Club . Kälin has been a member of the Swiss Social Democratic Party since 1991 . From 2001 to 2010 he was president of the SP Altdorf section and from 1998 to 2010 a member of the management of the Uri cantonal party. From 1998 to 2010 Kälin was a member of the Cantonal Matura Commission. In November 2009 he was elected to the Altdorf municipal council, from 2013 to 2014 he was the municipality's vice-president. Urs Kälin has been mayor of the capital of the canton of Uri since 2015 . In June 2019, the SP nominated Uri Kälin as a candidate for the National Council .

Works (selection)

• The Uri magistrate families. Rule, economic situation and lifestyle of a rural upper class 1700–1850 , Zurich 1991, ISBN 978-3-905278-86-6
• Structural change in the rural community democracy. On the situation of the Uri magistrate families in the 18th and early 19th centuries , in: Schweiz im Wandel: Studies on modern social history: Festschrift for Rudolf Braun on his 60th birthday. Edited by Sebastian Brändli, David Gugerli, Rudolf Jaun and Ulrich Pfister, Basel 1990, pp. 171–190, ISBN 978-3-7190-1058-4
• Foreign services from a social perspective: Central Swiss military entrepreneurship in the 18th century , in: Gente ferocissima. Service and society in Switzerland (15th – 19th centuries), Festschrift for Alain Dubois, ed. by N. Furrer u. a., Zurich 1997, ISBN 978-3-905312-19-5
• Central Swiss resistance to the Helvetic Republic: ideology or calculation? In: Resistance and Protests at the Time of the Helvetic, ed. by A. Binnenkade u. a., Lucerne 1998; Pp. 101-111, ISBN 978-3-905313-30-7
• ,Living means fighting'. Pictures on the history of the socialist youth workers in Zurich , 1926–1940, Zurich 2001, ISBN 978-3-0340-0528-9
• In the lane. 100 years of the Social Democratic Party of the Canton of Uri , Altdorf 2007
• (with Rebekka Wyler and Stefan Keller :) One hundred years Volkshaus Zurich. Movement, place, history . Edited by U. Kälin u. a., Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-03919-149-9
• Canon and Imperial Knights. On the rise of Central Swiss elites into the German nobility , in: Der Geschichtsfreund, Volume 170 (2017), pages 93–111, ISBN 978-3-85761-321-0
• Schwyz, a special case? In: 100 years of SP Canton Schwyz 1918–2018, Pfäffikon 2018, pp. 23–27

Web links

• Urs Kälin's website
• Urs Kälin on the website of the Altdorf community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Florian Arnold: Urs Kälin wants to become an SP National Councilor. April 4, 2019, accessed August 16, 2019 .