Veronica Schaller

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Veronica Schaller (1992)

Veronica Schaller (* 1955 ) is a Swiss politician ( SP ). From 1992 to 2001 she was a member of the government of the Canton of Basel-Stadt .

Life

Veronica Schaller grew up in Basel. Her father was the Basel government and national councilor Alfred Schaller ( FDP ). Veronica Schaller studied German, history, philosophy and geography at the University of Basel . She was active in the New Left at the time . From 1975 to 1977 she was a member of the Progressive Organizations Basel (POB) . In 1977 she left the POB. In retrospect, she cited the reason for leaving the POB, in which the discussion culture was "without the slightest consideration for personal sensitivities". From 1977 to 1984 she was actively involved in the Organization for the Cause of Women (OFRA)which was founded by women from the progressive organizations. She was later described by OFRA as one of the defining figures for the organization's politics. During her engagement for OFRA she was editor of the OFRA magazine "Emanzipation". She was also secretary of the Basel section of OFRA from 1981 to 1982 and a member of the national board for several years. After completing her studies, she joined the SP in 1984 and accepted a position as trade union secretary at the VPOD Basel, which she held until her election to the government council in 1992.

Political career

Schaller was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt in 1988. In 1992 she was the first woman to be elected to the Basel government council in the second ballot. She ousted her party colleague, the previous Remo Gysin . She took over the sanitary department (today: health department), which was not what she wanted. After the resignation of Stefan Cornaz ( FDP ) and the election of Carlo Conti ( CVP ), she moved to the education department in 2000. In 1998 she became regional president. While she had already been confirmed in the first ballot in the general renewal elections in 1996, she missed re-election to the government council in the second ballot in November 2000. The reasons given by contemporary observers and herself were the labor dispute in the central laundry facility in Basel (ZEBA AG), which was in need of renovation, in which the former union member had to implement restructuring measures such as extensive wage cuts, which cost her votes in the left-wing camp. In the middle-class camp, her approach to the appointment of a new director at the Kunstmuseum Basel caused criticism. Schaller decided against the candidate selected by a selection committee, who came from the Basel bourgeoisie and was also the sister of one of her government colleagues, and appointed a candidate from outside Basel. On the occasion of her non-re-election as well as of the other Swiss executive politicians, the question was also discussed whether gender-specific reasons could have played a role.

Later career

From 2003 to 2004, Schaller was Vice Director of the Federal Office for Refugees (today part of the State Secretariat for Migration ). From 2005 to 2008 she was the rector of the Inselspital training center . From 2008 until her retirement in 2019, she was the head of Kultur Stadt Bern, the cultural funding agency of the city of Bern. She then became a member of the Board of Directors of the Basel Theater and President of the Curaviva Basel-Stadt nursing home association.

literature

  • Esther Girsberger : Veronica Schaller. In: Esther Girsberger: Deselected. Women in power live dangerously. Xanthippe, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-9522868-2-6 , pp. 60–73. (Interview with Veronica Schaller)
  • Yolanda Cadalbert Schmid: Perfectionism and great political commitment - Veronica Schaller . In: Emanzipation: feminist magazine for critical women 16 (1990), pp. 20-21.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Esther Girsberger: Veronica Schaller. In: Esther Girsberger: Deselected. Women in power live dangerously. Xanthippe, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-9522868-2-6 , pp. 60–73, here p. 62; Walter Schäfer: Not quite synchronous in rhythm and tone. In: day week. January 3, 2013, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  2. ^ Esther Girsberger: Veronica Schaller. In: Esther Girsberger: Deselected. Women in power live dangerously. Xanthippe, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-9522868-2-6 , pp. 60–73, here p. 62; Yolanda Cadalbert Schmid: Perfectionism and great political commitment - Veronica Schaller . In: Emanzipation: feminist magazine for critical women 16 (1990), pp. 20–21, here p. 21 ( available online ).
  3. ^ Esther Girsberger: Veronica Schaller. In: Esther Girsberger: Deselected. Women in power live dangerously. Xanthippe, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-9522868-2-6 , pp. 60–73, here p. 62.
  4. ^ Yolanda Cadalbert Schmid: Perfectionism and great political commitment - Veronica Schaller . In: Emanzipation: feminist magazine for critical women 16 (1990), pp. 20–21, here p. 21 ( available online ).
  5. ^ Yolanda Cadalbert Schmid: Perfectionism and great political commitment - Veronica Schaller . In: Emanzipation: feminist magazine for critical women 16 (1990), pp. 20–21, here p. 20 ( available online ).
  6. ^ Yolanda Cadalbert Schmid: Perfectionism and great political commitment - Veronica Schaller . In: Emanzipation: feminist magazine for critical women 16 (1990), pp. 20–21, here p. 21 ( available online ).
  7. ^ Yolanda Cadalbert Schmid: Perfectionism and great political commitment - Veronica Schaller . In: Emanzipation: feminist magazine for critical women 16 (1990), pp. 20–21, here p. 20 ( available online ).
  8. ^ Yolanda Cadalbert Schmid: Perfectionism and great political commitment - Veronica Schaller . In: Emanzipation: feminist magazine for critical women 16 (1990), pp. 20–21, here p. 20 ( available online ); Esther Girsberger: Veronica Schaller. In: Esther Girsberger: Deselected. Women in power live dangerously. Xanthippe, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-9522868-2-6 , pp. 60–73, here p. 62.
  9. ^ Esther Girsberger: Veronica Schaller. In: Esther Girsberger: Deselected. Women in power live dangerously. Xanthippe, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-9522868-2-6 , pp. 60–73, here p. 62.
  10. ↑ Christof Wamister: Fresh wind in the government - complex majority in Parliament . In: Christoph Merian Foundation (ed.): Basler Stadtbuch 1992. Basel 1993, pp. 77–81, here p. 81, ( available online ).
  11. ↑ Veronica Schaller: My years as Basel's first member of the government. In: Association history of the Basler Sozialdemokratie (ed.): 125 years Basler Sozialdemokratie. A reader. Schwabe, Muttenz / Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-033-05470-7 , pp. 243–245, here p. 243.
  12. ↑ Christoph Merian Foundation (Ed.): March 21, 2000. In: Basler Chronik. Retrieved October 22, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Christoph Merian Foundation (Ed.): 07.01.1998. In: Basler Chronik. Retrieved October 22, 2019 .
  14. ^ Roland Schlumpf: Changed majorities in cantonal politics . In: Christoph Merian Foundation (Ed.): Basler Stadtbuch 1996 . Basel 1997, pp. 60–64, here p. 62, ( available online ); Vanda Dürig, Thomas Kamber: Recapturing the bourgeois majority . In: Christoph Merian Foundation (Ed.): Basler Stadtbuch 2000 . Basel 2001, pp. 82–84, here pp. 83–84 ( available online ).
  15. ^ Vanda Dürig, Thomas Kamber: The recapture of the bourgeois majority . In: Christoph Merian Foundation (Ed.): Basler Stadtbuch 2000 . Basel 2001, pp. 82–84, here pp. 83–84 ( available online ); Esther Girsberger: Veronica Schaller. In: Esther Girsberger: Deselected. Women in power live dangerously. Xanthippe, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-9522868-2-6 , pp. 60–73, here p. 69.
  16. ^ Vanda Dürig, Thomas Kamber: The recapture of the bourgeois majority . In: Christoph Merian Foundation (Ed.): Basler Stadtbuch 2000 . Basel 2001, pp. 82–84, here p. 84 ( available online ); Esther Girsberger: Veronica Schaller. In: Esther Girsberger: Deselected. Women in power live dangerously. Xanthippe, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-9522868-2-6 , pp. 60–73, here pp. 70–71; see also Alexander Jegge: The controversial election of the new head of the public art collection . In: Basler Stadtbuch 2000 . Basel 2001, pp. 190–193 ( available online ).
  17. ↑ See e.g. B. Esther Girsberger: Veronica Schaller. In: Esther Girsberger: Deselected. Women in power live dangerously. Xanthippe, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-9522868-2-6 , pp. 60–73.
  18. ↑ Andrea Fopp: 170,000 francs per year: Left-wing ex-government councilors need a pension more than bourgeois ones. In: day week . February 28, 2018, accessed October 22, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Regula Fuchs: “I could have saved myself that” . In: The Bund . January 25, 2019, p. 27 .
  20. ↑ Regula Fuchs: “I could have saved myself that” . In: The Bund . January 25, 2019, p. 27 . Curaviva Basel-Stadt: Veronica Schaller is the new President of CURAVIVA Basel-Stadt. September 20, 2019. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schaller, Veronica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH 1955