Viola Amherd

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Viola Amherd (2018)

Viola Patricia Amherd (born June 7, 1962 in Brig-Glis , Canton of Valais ; resident in Brig-Glis, Zwischenbergen and Naters ) is a Swiss politician ( CVP ). From 2001 to 2012 she was president of the municipality of Brig-Glis, from 2005 to 2018 she was a national councilor . In 2018 she was elected to the Federal Council, where she has been Head of Department of the DDPS since January 1, 2019 and thus Switzerland's first female defense minister .

Life

Viola Amherd attended primary and secondary school in Brig-Glis from 1969 to 1978. From 1978 to 1982 she was at the college in Brig , where she passed the Matura type B in 1982. From 1982 to 1987 she studied law at the University of Freiburg . In 1987 she received a licentiate in both rights there.

From 1988 to 1990 Amherd completed an internship as a lawyer and notary in Brig-Glis. In 1990 she received a notary's diploma from the Canton of Valais and in 1991 a lawyer’s diploma and admission to the bar from the Canton of Valais. From 1991 to 2018, Amherd worked as a freelance lawyer and notary with an office in Brig-Glis and from 1994 to 2006 part-time judge of the Federal Personnel Appeals Commission.

Amherd is single and lives in Bern and Brig-Glis.

politics

From 1993 to 1996 Amherd was a member of the Brig-Glis City Council (executive), from 1997 to 2000 Vice-President of the City of Brig-Glis and from 2001 to 2012 President. In 2005 she replaced Jean-Michel Cina in the National Council. She was a member of the Commission for Transport and Telecommunications, a member of the Commission for Legal Issues, a member of the Office of the National Council and, since 2011, Vice-President of the CVP parliamentary group . At CVP Oberwallis she is a member of the executive committee.

On October 24, she announced her candidacy for the replacement of Doris Leuthard on December 5, 2018. In the course of previous speculations about a Federal Council candidacy , the Walliser Bote reported on October 9, 2018 that Amherd was involved in civil law proceedings over a rent dispute. The parties reached an out-of-court settlement in 2020. On November 16, Amherd was nominated as a Federal Council candidate by the CVP alongside Heidi Z'graggen . On December 5, 2018, she was elected to the Federal Council alongside Karin Keller-Sutter ( FDP ) with 148 votes in the first ballot . On December 10, 2018, the Federal Council announced that Amherd will head the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) from January 1, 2019. Amherd is the first woman to head the Swiss Ministry of Defense.

Amherd is considered socially liberal, for example because she fought for a deadline solution in Valais and because she advocates quotas for women . At the same time, as a representative of the interests of the mountain cantons, she has the support of the conservatives.

literature

Web links

Commons : Viola Amherd  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ lic. iur. Viola Patricia Amherd. (December 27, 2019)
  2. ↑ Valais CVP National Councilor Viola Amherd joins the race | Lucerne newspaper . In: Lucerne newspaper . ( luzernerzeitung.ch [accessed on October 29, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Successor to Doris Leuthard - These are the favorites for the CVP seat in the Federal Council . In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) . September 27, 2018 ( srf.ch [accessed October 25, 2018]).
  4. ↑ David Biner: Lost? In: Walliser Bote of October 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ Viola Amherd pays to have peace , Tages-Anzeiger, February 13, 2020
  6. ↑ Raphaela Birrer, Markus Häfliger, Christoph Lenz: Amherd and Z'graggen triumphed so devastatingly . In: Tages-Anzeiger . ISSN  1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on November 17, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Replacement elections to the Federal Council - the results at a glance. December 5, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018 .
  8. ^ New offices - surprisingly large departmental castling in the Federal Council. In: srf.ch. December 10, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b Joël Widmer: The double Amherd. Portrait from in the weekly newspaper dated No. 45 of November 8, 2018, accessed December 5, 2018.
predecessor Office successor
Doris Leuthard Member of the Swiss Federal Council
2019– 		-
personal data
SURNAME Amherd, viola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amherd, Viola Patricia (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (CVP)
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Brig-Glis , Canton of Valais