Party of Farmers, Traders and Independents

The farmers, commercial and civil party (BGB ) was a January Founded on December 23, 1936 as a nation-wide party and 30, 1937 constituted political party in Switzerland. She walked out of the merger of various cantonal peasant parties out whose foundation in the time of the First World War ( 1917 Zurich, Bern, 1918 ) and the 1920s falls.

The Progressive Citizens' Party from the Canton of Basel-Stadt belonged to the Civil Code, in 1957, they broke up but joined the Liberal Democratic Party.

With Rudolf Minger, who had end November 1917 initiated the Bierhübeli in Bern the creation of the Bernese farmers and civil party, the Civil Code from 1929 to 1940 was the first time represented in the Bundesrat. He was elected on 12 December 1929 and stood until his resignation in 1940 the Federal Military Department (then EMD) before. All other BGB- cabinet ministers came as Minger from the canton of Bern: Eduard von Steiger ( 1941-51 ), Markus Feldmann ( 1952-58 ), Friedrich Traugott Wahlen ( 1959-65 ) and Rudolf Gnägi ( 1966-79 ).

BGB was founded in 1971 with the parties of the cantons of Glarus and Grisons, Swiss People's Party. Except in the Canton of Bern, there were at the time of the merger sections in the cantons of Aargau, Basel-Land, Fribourg, Schaffhausen, Ticino, Thurgau, Vaud and Zurich.

Party president

The following politicians were party president of the farmers, commercial and civil party: