Kaspar Villiger

Kaspar Villiger ( born February 5, 1941 in Pfeffikon, hometown entitled Sins and Pfeffikon ) is a Swiss entrepreneur and politician (FDP or FDP.Die liberals ). From 1989 to 2003 he was a member of the Federal Council. From 2009 to 2012, he was chairman of the Swiss bank UBS.

Education, occupation and Private

Villiger comes from an industrialist family, which produced cigars. He attended primary school in Pfeffikon, the district school in Reinach and the cantonal school in Aarau, where he graduated with Matura Type C. He then studied mechanical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and graduated in 1966 with a diploma. After the death of his father in the same year he became head of the cigar factory Villiger Söhne AG in Pfeffikon. He bought at a bicycle factory in Buttisholz. Villiger was Vice President of the Central Swiss Chamber of Commerce and some years a member of the Committee of the Central Association of Swiss employers' organizations as well as Vice President of the Aargau Industry and Commerce.

Villiger is married and has two children.

Policy

1972 Villiger was elected to the Grand Council of the Canton of Lucerne. On January 25, 1982, he moved to the retired Erwin Muff according to the National Council and was confirmed in 1983. In Parliament he was a 1983-1987 member of the Military Commission. 1987 Villiger was elected to the Senate, where he sat in the public accounts committee and the transport committee.

Kaspar Villiger was elected as the successor of Elisabeth Kopp in the Federal Council on 1 February 1989 and got out of the family business. In the Bundesrat, he stood first in the Military Department. In 1996 he took over the Department of Finance. Villiger was President of the years 1995 and 2002. On December 31, 2003, he handed over his office to the newly elected Hans -Rudolf Merz, after he had given in September announced his retirement.

Villiger 2003 was awarded the Fischhof price, which is awarded by the Foundation against Racism and Anti-Semitism ( GRA ) and the Society for Minorities in Switzerland ( GMS).

Chairman of UBS

On 4 March 2009, the Swiss bank UBS announced to propose to the Annual General Meeting on 15 April 2009 Kaspar Villiger as a new member and Chairman of the Board. On April 15, he was elected to the General Assembly in this office, his other directorships at Nestlé, Swiss Re and NZZ he passed. Only his term as president of the Foundation for the Promotion of the study program Master in Law and Economics at the University of St. Gallen, he kept still. Two days later Villiger presented his book " A nation of will must want - The political culture of Switzerland: future or way out? " With which he symbolically retired from politics. Villiger joined at the General Meeting of May 3, 2012 to not seek re-election. He came therefore a year earlier than planned return as president.

Works

• Kaspar Villiger and Konrad tribe: Shaping the future instead of anxious manage, NZZ Libro (May 2004), ISBN 978-3-03823-107-3.
• Kaspar Villiger: A nation of will must want NZZ Libro (April 2009) ISBN 978-3-03823-525-5.