Ursula Mauch

Ursula Mauch (1987)

Ursula Mauch (born March 29, 1935 in Oftringen ; entitled to live in Teufenthal and Hasle near Burgdorf ) is a Swiss politician ( SP ). She was the first national councilor of the canton of Aargau and the first president of a parliamentary group in the Swiss Federal Assembly .

family

Ursula Mauch is married to the engineer Samuel Mauch (* 1935) and has three children. She has lived in Oberlunkhofen in Aargau since 1964 . Her daughter Corine Mauch (* 1960) was elected mayor of Zurich in 2009 . The industrialist Hans Widmer , who among other things managed and restructured Oerlikon-Bührle and Schweiter Technologies , is her brother.

Education and professional activity

After graduating from business school in Neuchâtel , Ursula Mauch studied chemistry at the Technikum Winterthur from 1954 to 1957 . This was followed by a stay of several years in the United States (1959–1964). From 1970 to 1987 she worked as a chemistry and physics teacher at the Aarau vocational school .

Together with her husband, she founded the INFRAS research and consulting office in 1976.

politics

In 1967 she was one of the founders of the left-leaning team 67 , which campaigned for environmental and energy policy issues. As a representative of Team 67, she ran for the Council of States without success in 1971 - immediately after the introduction of women's suffrage - but was elected to the Grand Council , the Aargau cantonal parliament , in 1974. In 1976 she joined the SP, for which she politicized in the Grand Council until 1980.

In 1979 she was elected to the National Council for the SP, to which she belonged until her resignation in 1995. She was the first Aargau woman in the National Council - and remained the only one for 16 years. It was not until 1995 that further women from Aargau followed with the election of Christine Egerszegi , Doris Stump and Agnes Weber to the National Council. Mauch was the first woman to run for the Aargau government council in 1985 (general renewal). In the second ballot, she lost to the liberal Victor Rickenbach , which meant that the SP could not defend its second seat in the executive.

From 1987 she was the first woman in Switzerland to preside over a parliamentary group , the SP parliamentary group . In the years of her political activity, the political focus was on the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986, the Fichenskandal 1989, the opening of the Iron Curtain in the same year, the Rio Conference and the EEA vote in 1992 or the Federal Council election in 1993 . In the latter, she was traded as a Federal Council candidate, but did not make herself available.

Ursula Mauch was particularly committed to environmental, energy, educational and European issues. She was considered “across all Federal Council parties as a competent, straightforward politician capable of reaching a consensus”. She justified her resignation in 1995 by saying that she would like to “devote more time to the family-owned consultancy company”.

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From 1998 to 2007 she was President of the Board of Trustees of the Künstlerhaus Boswil .

Web links

• Ursula Mauch in the archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives
• Sarah Brian Scherer: Ursula Mauch. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Ursula Mauch on the website of the Federal Assembly
• These Aargau women were pioneers for women in politics , in: Aargauer Zeitung of February 6, 2011 (accessed on November 5, 2015).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ What is just doing ?: Hans Widmer, in: Bilanz dated December 21, 2007 ( online edition )
2. ↑ 25 years INFRAS , press release of December 6, 2001 (accessed on November 5, 2015).
3. ^ Team 67, Ursula Mauch in the Council of States , election poster ( digital copy of the poster collection of the Swiss National Library ).
4. ^ Database of council members since 1848 , accessed on November 11, 2015.
5. ↑ Année politique suisse ( https://anneepolitique.swiss/APS/de/APS_1985/APS1985_I_1_e.html ).
6. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung No. 52 of March 4, 1993 ( digitized version) and Wohler Anzeiger No. 26 of April 2, 1996.
7. ↑ Wohler Anzeiger No. 26, April 2, 1996.
8. ↑ Aargauer Zeitung of February 1, 1997.
9. ↑ Annual report 2007  ( 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. of the Künstlerhaus Boswil.