Werner Luginbühl

Werner Luginbühl, member of the Council of States for the Canton of Bern

Werner Luginbühl (born January 4, 1958 in Krattigen , resident in Krattigen) is a Swiss politician BDP .

Life

Luginbühl attended schools in Krattigen and Aeschi and then completed an apprenticeship as a heating draftsman. After a higher business diploma and postgraduate management diploma from the University of Freiburg , he was managing director and co-owner of an engineering office from 1983 to 1988 and managing director of the Thun-InnertPort mountain region and the Gürbetal planning association from 1989 to 1993 . From 1994 to 1998 he was party and parliamentary group secretary of the SVP of the canton of Bern. On April 19, 1998 he was elected to the government council, where he took over the judiciary, community and church administration (JGK) and held this office until 2007.

Since 1994 he has been a member of the SVP , which he left in June 2008 in favor of the Civil Democratic Party, which he co-founded.

On October 21, 2007 he was elected as a member of the Council of States for the Canton of Bern . On November 20, 2011, the Berne voters elected him with over 216,000 votes for a further four years. On November 15, 2015, he was re-elected for a further term in the Council of States in the second ballot . At the beginning of 2019, Luginbühl announced that he would no longer run for a further term.

Web links

• Werner Luginbühl on the website of the Federal Assembly
• Werner Luginbühl. Candidacy Senate elections of 23 October 2011. In: electoral platform Smartvote . Politools - Political Research Network, accessed November 1, 2011 . 
• Official homepage of Werner Luginbühl

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luginbühl and Stöckli comfortably re-elected. In: BZ - BernerZeitung online. November 15, 2015, p. 1 , accessed November 15, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Beatrice Simon is a candidate for the Council of States. In: BDP media release. January 11, 2019, p. 1 , accessed May 6, 2019 .