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Annemarie Huber-Hotz

Swiss politician (1948–2019)

Field	Value
name	Annemarie Huber-Hotz
image	Annemarie Huber-Hotz in Rapperswil.jpg
office	14th Chancellor of Switzerland
president	Adolf Ogi
Moritz Leuenberger
Kaspar Villiger
Pascal Couchepin
Joseph Deiss
Samuel Schmid
Moritz Leuenberger
Micheline Calmy-Rey
deputy	Oswald Sigg
Corina Casanova
term_start	1 January 2000
term_end	31 December 2007
predecessor	François Couchepin
successor	Corina Casanova
birth_date
birth_place	Baar, Switzerland
death_date
death_place	Fribourg, Switzerland
children	3
party	Free Democratic Party
alma_mater	University of Bern
Uppsala University
Graduate Institute of International Studies

Moritz Leuenberger Kaspar Villiger Pascal Couchepin Joseph Deiss Samuel Schmid Moritz Leuenberger Micheline Calmy-Rey Corina Casanova Uppsala University Graduate Institute of International Studies Annemarie Huber-Hotz (16 August 1948 – 1 August 2019) was a Swiss politician who served as the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2000 and 2007. She was nominated by the FDP for the office, and elected to it on 15 December 1999. In 2011, she became President of the Swiss Red Cross and ex officio vice-president of the IFRC.

Biography

Born in Baar, Zug, Huber-Hotz attended primary and secondary school in Baar, and the Gymnasium of Zug. She then studied sociology, ethnology and political science at the Universities of Bern, Uppsala (Sweden) and at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and participated in various professional activities. She undertook advanced studies at ETH in Zürich in spatial planning.

She held the following positions:

1976-1977: Studied spatial planning in Zug canton
1978-1981: Worked for the General Secretariat of the Swiss Parliament, in the press service
1981-1992: Worked for the secretariat of the Swiss Council of States
1989-1992: Director of the scientific parliamentary service
1992-1999: General Secretary of the Swiss Parliament
2000-2007: Federal Chancellor
2011- 2019: President, Swiss Red Cross

The Federal Chancellery, with about 180 workers, performs administrative functions relating to the co-ordination of the Swiss Federal government and the work of the Swiss Federal Council. The Chancellor is assisted by Vice-Chancellors and attends meetings of the Federal Council but does not vote. Huber-Hotz did not stand for reelection in December 2007 (after the general election), and was succeeded by Corina Casanova on 1 January 2008.

Huber-Hotz was married and had three children. She spoke English, French and Swedish in addition to German and Swiss German. Huber-Hotz died on 1 August 2019 at the age of 70 from a heart attack.

References

[https://www.redcross.ch/de/rotkreuzrat Rotkreuzrat] {{webarchive. link. (November 29, 2014 , Swiss Red Cross website.)
[http://www.academiaengelberg.ch/annemarie_huberhotz__1.php5 Annemarie Huber-Hotz] {{Webarchive. link. (2011-07-06 . Academia Englelberg Foundation. Retrieved 2010-12-11.)
"Alt Bundeskanzlerin Annemarie Huber-Hotz ist unerwartet verstorben".
(Aug 2, 2019). "Die ehemalige Schweizer Bundeskanzlerin Annemarie Huber-Hotz ist gestorben".

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