Willy player

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Willy Spieler (born August 6, 1937 in Glarus ; † February 25, 2016 ) was a Swiss religious socialist , publicist and politician ( SP ).

Life

Player grew up in a doctor's household in Glarus . He later attended the Engelberg Abbey School and then the Lucerne Cantonal School , where he passed the Matura. He then studied law and philosophy at the Universities of Zurich and Leuven . His grandfather Ferdinand Spieler was a co-founder of the Catholic Conservative People's Party in the canton of Glarus and the first councilor of his party. Player also worked during his studies in the Catholic Swiss Student Association , which he presided over in 1961/62. With the political theology of the Second Vatican Council he broke away from bourgeois Catholicism and in 1965 joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. In 1975/76 he was the main founder of the liberation theological Christians for socialism in Switzerland. With them he came closer and closer to the ideas of the religious socialism founded by Leonhard Ragaz . From 1977 to 2007 he headed the religious-socialist magazine Neue Wegen , which Ragaz co-founded in 1906 , in which he also published numerous articles of his own. Under his leadership, the New Ways became a widely respected forum for a socio-ethical policy. From 1982 to 1990 he was a member of the Küsnacht municipal council , where he was head of the welfare and guardianship system. In 1991 he was elected to the Zurich Cantonal Council; from 1996 until his resignation in 2001 he presided over the social democratic group. Player was heavily involved in the development of the Social Democratic Party's new party program, which was adopted in 2010 and which took up a number of impulses from him in its emphasis on economic democracy . His partner was the child psychotherapist Yvonne Häberli (+13 August 2018 Zurich). Player died of cancer in February 2016 at the age of 78 .

Publications (selection)

  • Church and participation. The contribution of the Catholic social doctrine to the constitutional political discussion about the co-determination of employees in Switzerland . Edited by the National Commission Justitia et Pax. Paulus-Druckerei, Friborg 1976, OCLC 604444508
  • Sign of time. Against the stream - analyzes and positions . Edition Exodus, Friborg 1991, ISBN 3-905575-62-0 .
  • with Ruedi Brassel-Moser : Leonhard Ragaz, interventions in current events, the kingdom of God and politics . Edition Exodus, Lucerne 1995.
  • with Stefan Howald , Brassel-Moser: For the freedom of the word. New ways through a century as reflected in the magazine of religious socialism . Theological Publishing House Zurich, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-290-17415-6 .
  • Priority of labor over capital . In: Ruth Gurny, Ueli Tecklenburg (ed.): Work without bondage ( A thinking network book from Edition 8 ). Edition 8, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-85990-189-6 , pp. 18–35.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b obituaries. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 27, 2016, p. 20.
  2. ↑ Neue Ways No. 10, 2018, 112th year, obituary, p. 28, "For Yvonne": "She was a strong woman, a fighter with radical views (p. 28)."
  3. ↑ Ruedi Baumann: SP politician Willy Spieler is dead. Obituary in: Tages-Anzeiger from February 27, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Player, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss social-ethical journalist, editor and politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Glarus
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 2016