Pius Segmüller
Pius Segmüller ( born March 8, 1952 in St. Gallen) from 1998 to 2002, the 32nd Commandant of the Pontifical Swiss Guard. From 2007 to 2011 he sat on the National Council for the CVP.
Life
Segmüller grew up in Emmen near Lucerne and attended high school in St. Clement Ebikon. The high school he graduated from the Canton of Lucerne School. Trained in Zurich secondary teachers first worked in the Canton of Uri as a teacher, then became training officer of the rescue troops in the Military Department VBS, congress manager at the pharmaceutical company Sandoz ( now Novartis ), Deputy Head of the Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief of the canton of Bern and finally police officer of the City Police St. Gallen. For his great relief operation during landslide in 1991 in Randa he received from the Valais community honorary citizenship.
In the Swiss Guard Segmüller was appointed after the death of the previous commander Alois Estermann as his successor. He taught in Switzerland an information and recruitment site a, appointed a media officer and intensified the education and training of the guards. The rigorous selection process and the intensification of management training - for example by a beige solid instructor in the Swiss army - are among the most important innovations Segmüllers. In 2002 he resigned for family reasons and was replaced by Elmar Mäder. Then Segmüller was until 2006 the commander of the municipal police Lucerne. Next Segmüller is security adviser to the World Football Association.
In the 2007 elections, he was elected for the Christian Democratic Party in the canton of Lucerne in the National Council. In 2011, he was not confirmed.
Segmüller lives in Lucerne, is married and has two children.
Honors
- 2000: Commander with Star of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great
- 2002: Commander with Star of the Pontifical Order of Pius