Since 2017 is the national Council of Nik Gugger ( EVP , ZH). Very known the Winterthur has become since then. You know Gugger in India – particularly in the 34-million Federal state of Kerala. The reason: Gugger has not forgotten his country of birth. He is engaged there for years social and education policy.
in November 2017, an adoptive child was from the deep South West of India “Member of Parliament” in Switzerland, made all the way up to Kashmir headlines. “The Indians like it dramatic and pointed, with regard to media reports about the country and its people,” says Gugger. “It’s a bit of Bollywood.”
About the nurse in Switzerland
And so from the life story of the “poor Indian boy” by his mother, a destitute widow, abandoned in the hospital was a spectacular Story. However, a lot has been omitted. Is not mentioned, for example, that a widow brings a son to the world – a taboo in the Indian society. And so India’s media reports, rather, how the mother’s sister asked the sick in the hospital after the birth, to find the best possible place for your son, a son, and you are not financially able to provide.
This nurse was a German who knew a Swiss named Fritz Gugger. This was in the vicinity of the hospital for the evangelische Hilfswerk in Switzerland apprentices. Gugger and his wife took the newborn up for Adoption, which lasted two years. Finally, the gugger’s moved to third now, at the end of 1973 back in Switzerland.
Gugger with his family in 2003. Photo: Keystone
In the Bern Uetendorf the father took up a position in the deaf centre, and later headed the home for the aged. The social commitment of the parents rubbed off on Nik. “We celebrated Christmas in the old people’s home, we ate and drank with the Elderly, many of them were abandoned by their own families alone.” As a youth, Nik has been involved in the Cevi, the Christian Association of Young men. Now it was time for Gugger: Help, help, help behind – the marginal, the Dependent, the Alone.
After a Töffunfall he completed the apprenticeship as a machine mechanic in the operation of the SVP national Council Hansruedi Wandfluh. Then, the step into the profession was followed by life with the training to social workers and social managers. Indian media exaggerated the gugger’s life here, too. They reported that he was very grown up poor, the adoptive child had worked his way up from driver and friedshofs gardener to the parliamentarians. The strokes, two part-time jobs, which Gugger as a Student, earned his money.
That a foreign Ambassador pays tribute to a Swiss national Council, officially, is probably unique in the Federal government in Bern.
And now, last weekend, was followed by the highlight of the appreciation from The Indian Ambassador in Switzerland, Sibi George, gave in to his Berne residence a reception to honor gugger’s. The occasion was the awarding of the honorary doctor title of the University in Orissa – one of India’s best universities – for gugger’s commitment to the education and support of destitute children and students. Ambassador George said: “By Nik gugger’s social commitment, he makes only his parents, brothers and sisters, his wife and kids to be proud of, but also the country of his birth and his Ambassador.” That a foreign Ambassador pays tribute to a Swiss national Council, officially, is probably unique in the Federal government in Bern.
gugger’s ties with India remains. As a Fundraiser and Ambassador for the students from the poorest backgrounds Gugger travels again in October after the Orissa. Accompany him to the Zurich Council of States and the criminal law Professor Daniel Jositsch (SP), hold on to the Uni Lectures and Panels to attend. (Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 08.05.2019, 20:15 Uhr
