Leon Schlumpf

Leon Schlumpf ( born February 3, 1925 in Felsberg, Grisons, † July 7, 2012 in Chur, home justified in Monchaltorf and Felsberg ) was a Swiss politician (SVP, DP ), lawyer and folk musician. From 1980 to 1987 he was a member of the Federal Council.

Life

Leon Schlumpf studied law at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate there in 1951. He was a lawyer by profession and served as the Grand Council, Governing Council, National Council and Council of States. From 1974 to 1978 he was a prize supervisor Switzerland. He was elected to the Federal Council on 5 December 1979. On December 31, 1987, he resigned. During his tenure, he stood in front of the Swiss Federal Institute of Transport and Energy Department of Economic Affairs. During his tenure, the adoption of the construction of Vereinatunnel fell in a referendum on 22 September, 1985, a project which he advocated.

In 1984, he was President. In this capacity he received in Berne South African President Piet Willem Botha. The reception was controversial because, Switzerland maintained close economic, military and intelligence contacts with South Africa, although this was internationally isolated because of its racist apartheid policies.

Smurf played the piano, organ and hand Schwyzerörgeli and devoted himself to country music. He wrote under the pseudonym Raetus Telena even pieces that he performed with the native to rocky mountain Ländlerkapelle Bernina. A composed by him Polka was released in 2004 on the CD as a Musig früener, played by the Ländlerkapelle Oberalp.

His daughter Eveline Widmer -Schlumpf was elected in 1998 as the first woman in the Grisons cantonal government and in 2007 became the first woman of the SVP in the Bundesrat. After the Swiss People's Party had ruled their Grisons cantonal section 2008, Leon Schlumpf and his daughter became a member of the newly formed Civic Democratic Party.

Leon Schlumpf died on 7 July 2012 at the age of 87 years at the Kantonsspital Graubünden, Chur.