A reliable Schaffer in the Background he had been, wrote the Tages-Anzeiger in February 1994 on the CVP-councillor Wolfgang Nigg, the former chief of the health and economic office, as the Zurich health and environment Department until 1996 was called.
Nigg, who held the office from 1986 to 1998, was not a man of big words, a rather “unremarkable and rarely in the spotlight”. The Interior does not have Nigg made anyway, even if it “was said to have outbursts, a tendency to Temper”. The former professional militarists saw the more nuanced: “As easy as a choleric, I would not call me again, I’m up quickly once I’m down too quickly,” he said at the time, the Tages-Anzeiger. From 1984 to 1985, Nigg was President of the Zurich Kantonsrats.
Now the city Council Wolfgang Nigg is Old-in the night of may 19. on the 20. February at the age of 84 years in the city hospital Triemli “to his patience and Confidence suffered Parkinson’s disease with the family asleep,” as it writes in the obituary.
The city Council in 1994 (from top left clockwise) Hans Wehrli (FDP), Willy Küng (CVP), Thomas Wagner (FDP), Josef Estermann (SP), Wolfgang Nigg (CVP), Robert Neukomm (SP), Monika Stocker (Green party), Ursula Koch (SP) and Kathrin Martelli (FDP). Image: Keystone
The “down-to-earth” man from the Central part of Switzerland, “had the threads in Hand”, was a compromise and a decision-taker. Dealing with the many academics in his squad caused him no problems, said the only “non-academic” in the city Council once the Tages-Anzeiger.
During his tenure, contributed to the Nigg with the development of a mission statement for the Spitex, the opening of different centers and the anchoring of the hospital and external health and health care in the municipality of procedure, a Central contribution to outpatient care, writes the Zurich city Council in its message.
Under his pre-reign of the waste disposal system, in particular the introduction of fee-based “Züri-Sacks” and the separate collection of waste had been placed in addition, an advanced ecological Basis. Wolfgang Nigg engaged as a social policy for the socially Weaker and took care of in his function, especially to the concerns of the sick and the elderly. With the promotion of geriatric medicine and nursing was a concern.
During his tenure in Zurich, heroin assisted treatment was introduced. And with a consistent Four-pillars policy, which is today enshrined in the national narcotics act, was overcome, the open drug scene in 1995. As a real politician, he, the city Council was approached, the challenges of his time in a pragmatic way, with great dedication and keen interest for city-wide concern.
“Wolfgang Nigg was with his energetic, competent and people the middle way of working is not only a valued councillor colleague, but also in the population of a popular personality.” His achievements would also apply today as key contributions to the positive development of the quality of life in Zurich.
Until the middle of January, Wolfgang Niggs SVP-Old-city Council colleague, school office, prostate, Kurt Egloff, died.
The funeral will take place on the cemetery Manegg on Wednesday, 13. March, 14 o’clock, instead of, the subsequent abdication of 15 PM in the St. Francis Church in Wollishofen. (Tages-Anzeiger)
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