Lilian Uchtenhagen

Lilian lamp Hagen comes from a middle-class home, her parents ran in Olten a fashion store. She herself graduated from the trade school, made in 1947 at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, the high school and studied political science at the University of Basel and at the London School of Economics and graduated with a thesis on the limits of the national debt from.

In 1970, she joined the SP in the city of Zurich. Causes for this step it has the invitation of the Rector of the Commercial School, where she has taught, to inform him of the name of the student who has written a pamphlet at their school. She refused to do so despite the threat of termination on the part of the rector.

After the introduction of women's suffrage lamp Hagen was first elected in 1970 in the council of Zurich and in November 1971 as one of the first women in the National Council of Switzerland. 1983 nominated their party they as a candidate for election to the Federal Council, in which they would have been the first female member. The bourgeois parliamentary majority instead chose to not officially nominated Otto Stich to succeed Willy Ritschard. Lilian lamp Hagen started in November 1991 after twenty years in the National Council is not seeking re-election on.

Lilian lamp Hagen was 1981-1997 President of the Board at Coop Zurich LVZ, 1998-2003 President of Swissaid.

She is married to the psychiatrist Ambros lamp Hagen.