Willi Ritschard was a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party (SP). He is remembered as the first and to date only working class member of the Federal Council,the Swiss government. Prior to that,he was also a member of the cantonal government of Solothurn and a member of the National Council.
Grenchen is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.
The Solothurn Madonna is an oil-on-panel painting created in 1522 by the German-Swiss artist Hans Holbein the Younger in Basel. The painting depicts the Virgin Mary and Christ enthroned,flanked by Martin of Tours,shown as a bishop giving alms to a beggar,and Ursus of Solothurn,depicted as a soldier in armour. Notably,Holbein used his wife,Elsbeth,as the model for the Madonna,and the baby is believed to have been modelled after Holbein and Elsbeth's infant son Philipp.
Biel/Bienne Bözingenfeld/Champ railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Biel/Bienne,in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is an intermediate stop on the Basel–Biel/Bienne and Jura Foot lines,although trains traveling south on the Basel–Biel/Bienne line from Grenchen Nord do not stop here.
The Kantonales Kulturzentrum Palais Besenval was a state cultural center in the Swiss town of Solothurn that existed from 1990 to 2000. It was located in the Palais Besenval at Kronengasse 1 and served mainly as a Kunsthalle.
Beat Jans is a Swiss environmental scientist and politician who serves as a member of the Federal Council,after being elected in 2023 to succeed Alain Berset,assuming office on 1 January 2024. A member of the Social Democratic Party,he previously served on the National Council from 2010 to 2020,and president of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt from 2021 to 2023.
Marionna Schlatter is a Swiss politician of the Green Party of Switzerland,and a former member of the Cantonal Council of Zurich and current member of the National Council.
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a current member of the Federal Council. She was elected on 7 December 2022,the first elected member from the Canton of Jura.
Yule Forenorth Kilcher was a Swiss-born American homesteader who was a member of the Alaska state senate from 1963 to 1966.
Andreas Reize is a Swiss organist and conductor,with a focus on opera and choral conducting. He was appointed Thomaskantor on 11 September 2021,becoming the 18th director of music to take charge of the world famous Thomanerchor at Leipzig in succession to Johann Sebastian Bach.
Brigitte Häberli-Koller is a Swiss politician of the party The Centre. She is a former member of the National Council and a current of the Council of States of which she served as its president from 2022 to 2023.
Sandra Locher Benguerel is an educator and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Since 2019,she is a member of the National Council,the lower house of the Swiss Parliament.
The 2019 Zürich cantonal elections were held on 24 March 2019,to elect the seven members of the cantonal Executive Council and the 180 members of the Cantonal Council. All five incumbents running were re-elected to the Executive Council,as well as green candidate Martin Neukom and Swiss People's Party candidate Natalie Rickli.
The 2023 Zürich cantonal elections were held on 12 February 2023 to elect the seven members of the cantonal Executive Council and the 180 members of the Cantonal Council.
Franziska Roth is a pedagogue and politician of the Social Democrat Party of Switzerland (SP). Since 2019,she is a current member of the National Council,the lower house of the Swiss Parliament.
Eric Nussbaumer is a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and member of the National Council,the lower chamber of the Swiss Parliament. He is the current President of the National Council.
Simon Michel is a Swiss businessman and politician who currently serves on the National Council (Switzerland) for The Liberals since 2023. Previously he served on the Cantonal Council of Solothurn between 2017 and 2024. Since 2014,he is the CEO of Ypsomed Holding,a medical device company,founded by his father Willy Michel who was an estimated net worth of $3.3 billion.
Anita Hugi is a Swiss author,producer,journalist,editor,filmmaker and festival director. She was editor in charge of the documentary film program Sternstunde Kunst of SRF from 2006 to 2016,program director of the Festival International du Film sur l'Art (FIFA) in Montreal (Canada) from 2016 to 2018 and director of the Solothurn Film Festival from August 2019 to August 2021 Since September 2023,she has been Head of the Film Department at the Geneva School of Art and Design.
Remy Wyssmann is a Swiss businessman,attorney,notary public and politician who currently serves on the National Council (Switzerland) for the Swiss People's Party since 2023. He previously served on the Cantonal Council of Solothurn between 2017 and 2023.
