Kurt Egloff was not so easy from the rest. Also in those times, in which, in the Zurich city Council really thick air, you saw him go friendly grüssend through the old town. He remained close to the people, even if he had to in the media and in Parliament, harsh criticism plug.
Kurt Egloff is on 12. January, a day before his 87. Birthday, died. The teacher has already been chosen as the 34-Year-old to the municipal President of the small limmattaler municipality of Aesch and then became the district Council, then a member of the Parliament and the managing Director of the cantonal trade Association.
thanks to him, science was a subject in schools
in 1982, he was elected to the city Council at that time was still dominated by a bourgeois. He took over the office of education and was now in his Element, making him also the political opponent of respect paid.
So he led, barely in office, computer science as an optional subject against the resistance of many parents. Under his Leadership, student clubs – environmental education and addiction prevention created teaching material. In his death the Zurich city Council writes, the Zurich school system would have played under him a pioneer role.
Abrupt end of a career
Egloffs political career ended abruptly. In 1989, he was fined, together with the then city President Thomas Wagner (FDP) due to a violation of official Secrecy. It was a new construction zone regulations, in the case of Ursula Koch (SP), the spring guide had. Wagner and Egloff had issued internal files to External. Egloff is no longer joined to the elections.
Already in as a city Councilman Kurt Egloff had made for the Development of competitive and recreational sports. After that, he worked as a self-employed consultant in advance in the area of sports sponsorship. He was active as a Board member of the home owner Association of the Canton of Zurich. His son, SVP national councillor Hans Egloff, took him there in 1997.
“He remained sociable”
“Kurt Egloff was the last of us, has managed the election to the city Council,” says the longtime President of the Swiss people’s party cantonal party Fredy army on the question of the importance of Egloffs for the SVP . Bitter the not quite voluntary resignation does not have it. “Kurt remained sociable and smoked, like me, love to cosy round a cigar.”
His ability to attract sponsors for a cause, benefiting also of the SVP. He was twice a member of the election Board in the case of Mauro Tuenas city Council candidacies. “The party was very dear to him, he supports you with great dedication,” says Tuena. “A big thank you to Kurt Egloff.”
The funeral service will be held on Wednesday, 30.January, at 14.30 in the Fraumünster. (Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 23.01.2019, 07:33 PM
