Yann Richter

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Yann Richter in his apartment, 1983

Yann Richter-Du Pasquier (born April 4, 1928 in Hauterive ; † July 20, 2008 Neuchâtel ) was a Swiss politician . From 1978 to 1984 he was President of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (FDP) .

family

Richter's ancestors of the same name came to Neuchâtel from Zurich in 1756 , presumably they originally moved from Prussia to Switzerland. His father André Richter was the owner of a coal import company and belonged to the FDP of the Canton of Neuchâtel (Association Patriotic Radicale Neuchâteloise) . His mother Madeleine Roulet came from a French bourgeois family close to the Liberal Party . Yann Richter's wife Geneviève Richter-Du Pasquier, whom he married in 1968, grew up in the same liberal tradition in Neuchâtel; this marriage had a daughter and two sons.

Political mandates

Richter studied law at the University of Neuchâtel . As FDP member, he was in 1960 for mayor of his birthplace and a year later in the Great Council elected the canton of Neuchâtel. He retained both functions until 1969, and was also the FDP parliamentary leader in the cantonal parliament . In 1972 he was elected Vice President of the FDP Switzerland.

In 1971 Richter became a member of the National Council , to which he was a member for eight years; he presided over the finance commission and the business audit commission (GPK). In 1979 he ran for the Council of States ; in the first ballot he received only four votes less than his former schoolmate and incumbent Councilor René Meylan , SP , who then made the race in the second ballot.

FDP president

Party platform

From 1973 to 1977 Richter was president of the cantonal FDP. The cooperation with the Neuchâtel Liberals was an important concern of his because of the same basic conviction; the only differences lay in family tradition or lifestyle. Even if Richter was familiar with both traditions from his family and always fought the rivalries between radicals and liberals, he did not think of a merger of the two parties at the time, which he then founded in June 2008 with the establishment of the Parti Libéral-Radical Neuchâtelois ( PLRN) was allowed to experience.

Richter presided over the FDP for the whole of Switzerland from April 1978 to April 1984. He considered his important task to be to maintain the broad social anchoring of the FDP and to "bring the different and individual views down to a common denominator" within the liberal spirit. As the FDP president, he sought dialogue with other parties. Under his leadership, the objectives of his party for the legislative period 1979/83 were worked out with an election platform under the motto “More freedom and personal responsibility - less state” . In the 1979 parliamentary elections, the FDP achieved over 24% of the vote. In 1982 the new liberal main program “Principles of modern liberalism ” was drawn up, in which the liberal core ideas were thematized in a topical and Switzerland-related manner. After the parliamentary elections in 1983, the FDP parliamentary group formed the largest delegation in the National Council and the Federal Assembly with 23.3% of the vote - for the first time since 1928 .

economy and society

As a manager, 1983

Richter was involved in numerous social and economic organizations. Since 1959 he has been an innovative co-designer of the traditional Neuchâtel watch industry , whose “inventive spirit” he highly valued. He was Vice Director of the Swiss Watch Chamber ( La Chaux-de-Fonds ) and President a. a. the Neuchâtel Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Chambre neuchâteloise du commerce et de l'industrie) and several Neuchâtel research institutes for the watch industry: Swiss Research Laboratory for Watch Technology (Laboratoire Suisse de Recherche Horlogère) , Swiss Watch Research Association (Association Suisse pour la Recherche Horlogère) , Swiss Foundation for Fine Technical Research (Fondation Suisse pour la Recherche en Microtechnique) .

Richter also presided over the Swiss Inland Navigation Company . Not only as the FDP president, but also as the incoming SRG president, he welcomed the liberalization of the media law and the admission of private and commercial local radio stations in 1983 to compete with the state monopoly media.

In the military commanded judges an infantry - battalion , he was chief of staff to two border brigades and reached the rank of colonel in the general staff of the Swiss Army .

Web links

credentials

  1. ^ Former FDP President Yann Richter has died. In: NZZ Online . July 22, 2008
  2. ↑ In the executive suite - FDP President Yann Richter collects risk capital for research. In: Die Weltwoche . November 29, 1978
  3. ^ Yann Richter: FDP top man without career plans. In: Basler Zeitung . April 14, 1978
  4. ^ Yann Richter - Neuchâtel with Gaieté de coeur. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 21, 1978
  5. ^ Yann Richter, new SRG President. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . January 10, 1983
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Yann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Judge-Du Pasquier, Yann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hauterive
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 2008
Place of death Neuchâtel NE