Werner Vetterli

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Werner Vetterli

Werner Vetterli (born July 28, 1929 in Stäfa ; † June 14, 2008 in Zurich ) was a Swiss athlete , sports reporter , television presenter and politician .

Vetterli was born the son of an SBB employee and a farmer's daughter and grew up in Stäfa. He trained as a primary school teacher.

Vetterli was one of the most successful Swiss modern pentathletes in the 1950s . In 1954 he was runner-up in the individual world championship in Budapest. In the team competition, he won the silver medal with Hansueli Glogg and Erhard Minder in the same year and the bronze medal a year later. At the height of his career, however, he had to give up his participation in the 1956 Summer Olympics because of the boycott of Switzerland ; at the games of 1952 and 1960 he could not get a medal.

In 1956 Vetterli began to work for Radio DRS , from 1965 onwards for Swiss television as a reporter, presenter and producer of politics, traffic and sports programs. His cross-country direct reports in particular are unforgettable. From 1969 to 1976 he moderated the Swiss wanted man calls in the television program Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved . He was followed by Konrad Toenz . Vetterli was also the presenter on the programs Tonight in ... and Antenne .

After his television career, Vetterli became politically active: first as a candidate for the Council of States , he was a member of the National Council for the SVP from 1991 to 1999 .

Vetterli was married and had two children. Most recently he lived in Uitikon .

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SURNAME Vetterli, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss athlete, television presenter and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Stäfa
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2008
Place of death Zurich