Marcel Regamey

Marcel Regamey ( born August 19, 1905 in Lausanne, † 23 June 1982 Epalinges, hometown entitled in Lausanne and Savigny ) was a Swiss politician ( Ligue vaudoise ).

Regamey studied law at the University of Lausanne and received his doctorate in 1929 to the doctor. In 1932 he passed his bar examinations.

In 1919 he founded the movement Ordre et Tradition ( order and tradition ), which was renamed in 1933 in Ligue vaudoise, and was its president until 1977. He was from 1931 editor of La Nation and represented anti-Semitic and corporatist views. He was regarded as a supporter of an authoritarian conception of the state and was thrilled by the ideas of Charles Maurras. Regamey advocated for federalism and sovereignty of the cantons and signed in 1940, the entry of the Two Hundred. Together with Paul Chaudet he launched the popular initiative " for the return to direct democracy", which was established in 1949 approved by Swiss voters.

Furthermore, Marcel Regamey wrote numerous political, philosophical and theological music and art reviews. He was in 1957 the Board of Directors of the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne, 1960, the Synod of all the Reformed churches in the canton of Vaud and was 1966-1968 President of the Vaud Bar Association. In 1987, the " Fondation Marcel Regamey " was founded.