Xaver Reichmuth

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Xaver Reichmuth (born May 3, 1931 in Schwyz ; † February 26, 2013 there ; authorized to live there ) was a Swiss politician ( CVP ).

biography

Family and work

The Catholic baptized, born Schwyzer Xavier Reichmuth, son of farmer Xavier Reichmuth senior and whose marriage wife Anna born Küttel, completed a after his compulsory education commercial education. Xaver Reichmuth was subsequently employed in the profession he had learned.

Xaver Reichmuth married Adelheid, the daughter of the state treasurer Robert Annen, in 1955. He died in February 2013 two months before he would turn 82 at his home in Schwyz.

Political career

Xaver Reichmuth, who joined the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (CVP Switzerland), acted from 1951 to 1968 as a district runner and district cashier. In the years 1958 to 1962, he held the posts of coffers master and mayors hold of Schwyz. In 1964 there was an election to the Cantonal Council of Schwyz . In 1968 he was elected to the government council, where he headed first the building department, then from 1977 the finance department. Reichmuth, who held the office of Landammann from 1974 to 1976 , resigned in 1984. In 1983 the people elected him to the Council of States , where he chaired the commission for a new federal tax law, in 1991 he resigned.

In Reichmuth's era as head of the building department, the revision of the cantonal building law and the construction of the A3 and A4 national roads fell. During his reign as head of the finance department, the new law on the Schwyz Cantonal Bank came into force. In addition, the cantonal tax law was revised in 1978 and 1982.

Xaver Reichmuth also presided over numerous public and non-profit organizations as well as the organizing committee of the national celebration for the 700th anniversary of the Confederation on August 1, 1991 in Schwyz.

publication

  • National road N 3: section Pfäffikon-Weesen: opening November 30, 1973. 1973

literature

  • Schwyz (Canton). Government Council: The state of Schwyz in the federal state, 1848–1998. Government Council of the Canton of Schwyz, Schwyz 1998, p. 170.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Xaver Reichmuth on the website of the Federal Assembly ( submitted proposals )
personal data
SURNAME Reichmuth, Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (CVP)
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwyz
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 2013
Place of death Schwyz