Walter Thurnherr

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Walter Thurnherr in the official Federal Council photo 2017.

Walter Thurnherr (born July 11, 1963 in Muri , Canton Aargau ; resident in Diepoldsau ) is a Swiss diplomat and senior civil servant. The member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP) took up the post of Federal Chancellor of the Swiss Confederation on January 1, 2016 .

biography

Thurnherr grew up in Wohlen in the canton of Aargau and graduated from the canton school in Aarau , which he left in 1982 with the Matura. From 1983 to 1987 he studied theoretical physics at the ETH Zurich . From 1987 to 1989 he worked at the Mathematical Seminar and the Physiological Institute at the University of Bern .

After completing his studies, he entered the diplomatic service, initially as an attaché to the Swiss embassy in Moscow . From 1991 to 1995 he worked in the Political Secretariat of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), from 1995 to 1997 envoy at the embassy in Moscow. At the same time, he was Switzerland's representative in the Minsk Group from 1995 to 1997 and assistant to the UN Secretary General's envoy for Georgia from 1993 to 1997 .

From 1997 to 1999, Thurnherr was a personal assistant to Federal Councilor Flavio Cotti . In 2000 he was promoted to head of the then Political Department VI of the FDFA, which was responsible for all crises and consular protection cases abroad. From 2002 he was Secretary General of the FDFA for a year before moving to the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (FDEA) in 2003, where he performed the same function. He was also Secretary General from 2011 in the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC). On December 9, 2015, he was elected Chancellor by the Federal Assembly with 230 votes and thus succeeded Corina Casanova . In the 2019 Federal Council election, his office as Federal Chancellor was confirmed with 219 votes.

He is married and has two children.

Web links

Commons : Walter Thurnherr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d CV of Walter Thurnherr on the CVP website, accessed December 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Marcel Amrein: The logical chancellor. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 14, 2015, accessed December 14, 2015 .
  3. ^ Frank Sieber, Claudia Baer: Federal Council election: Parliament confirms the previous government and denies the Greens entry into the Federal Council. In: nzz.ch. December 11, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Thurnherr, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss diplomat and civil servant (CVP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Muri AG