Peter Spuhler

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Peter Spuhler
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in 2007
Member of the National Council (Switzerland)
In office
6 December 1999 –31 December 2012
Children3
Residence Warth-Weiningen, Switzerland
Education University of St. Gallen
Occupation Entrepreneur
Military service
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Branch/serviceFlag placeholder.svg Special Forces Command (Switzerland)
Rank CHE OF2 Hptm.svg Captain
Unit Grenadier

Peter Christoph Spuhler (born 9 January 1959) is a Swiss industrialist and politician of the Swiss People's Party, where from 1999 to 2012 he served as a member of the Swiss National Council for the canton of Thurgau. [1] Spuhler was CEO of the family firm Stadler Rail from 1989 to 2017 and again on an ad interim basis from 2020 until 2023. [2] As of April 2019, he held a 40% shareholding in Stadler. [3]

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Early and Personal life

Peter Spuhler was born in Seville, Spain. After completing his compulsory and tertiary education in Zurich, as well as compulsory military service, he studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen from 1980 to 1986. In his youth he played ice hockey for the Grasshopper Club Zürich.

Spuhler is married to Daniela Spuhler-Hoffmann and has one child with her. He also has two children from a previous marriage. [4] His assets were estimated by the Swiss business magazine Bilanz at 2.25 billion Swiss francs in 2017. [5]

Business career

Stadler Rail

After marrying into the Stadler family, [6] Spuhler took up his position in 1987 at Stadler Fahrzeuge AG, which was then managed by Irma Stadler, the widow of company founder Ernst Stadler. [7] Two years later, he took over the company with its 18 employees and a turnover of approx. 4.5 million Swiss francs, according to his statement with a bank loan from the Thurgauer Kantonalbank for around 5 million Swiss francs. [8] He restructured it and, with the Stadler GTW, opted for a new vehicle that was more suitable for modern local transport. In order to continue to be successful in rail vehicle construction, Spuhler bought the Werk Altenrhein from Schindler Waggon AG in 1997. The new holding structure favored expansion into Germany and Eastern Europe. On 1 April 2018, Spuhler handed over the management of the Stadler Rail Group to Thomas Ahlburg. Since then, he has concentrated on the Stadler Rail Group as President of the Board of Directors. [9] As of May 2020, due to differences in the strategic and organisational development of Stadler Rail AG, he took over the position of Group CEO ad interim [10] until 2023, when Markus Bernsteiner took over as the new CEO. [11]

Other roles

Spuhler is a member of the board of directors of the Aebi-Schmidt Group and holds other seats on the board of directors of two other companies: Gleisag (Rorschach) and Walo Bertschinger AG (Zurich). Since April 2019, he has been a member of Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG and also sits on the supervisory board of Robert Bosch GmbH. [12] He is also a member of the Mittelthurgau Employers' Association in Weinfelden, the IG Freiheit, the Thurgau Chamber of Industry and Commerce (Weinfelden) and the Information Service for Public Transport (Bern). Spuhler is also involved in the Tele D Foundation (Diessenhofen) and is Vice President of the Betriebs AG of the ZSC Lions. From 1999 until 2012, Spuhler sat as a member of the National Council of Switzerland, representing the Canton of Thurgau for the Swiss People's Party (SVP/UDC), and also sat on the Swiss government's parliamentary committee for economy and taxation. Unlike the vast majority of the SVP/UDC caucus, Spuhler is supportive of the freedom of movement of workers between Switzerland and the EU, [13] and in particular lent his support to the Bilateral Agreements I from 1999. [14]

In November 2020, Spuhler was appointed as Switzerland's honorary consul to Russia, [15] but declined the office. [16]

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References

  1. ↑ "parlament.ch - Peter Spuhler" . Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Spuhler tritt als Chef von Stadler Rail zurück". Tages-Anzeiger (in German). 20 September 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Stadler Rail lists on SIX Swiss Exchange Railway Gazette International 12 April 2019
  4. ↑ Jet-Cetera. In: Tages-Anzeiger. 31 October 2015, S. 18.
  5. ↑ Peter Spuhler. In: Bilanz. seen on 2 Mai 2018.
  6. ↑ Interview with Irma Stadler on 9 October 2012.
  7. ↑ https://www.toponline.ch/radio-top/detail/news/irma-stadler-im-alter-von-96-jahren-verstorben-00146065/
  8. ↑ SRF, Blinddate
  9. ↑ Peter Spuhler übergibt die Funktion des Group CEO an Thomas Ahlburg. Medienmitteilung vom 20. September 2017 (PDF).
  10. ↑ "Chefwechsel bei Stadler Rail: Peter Spuhler zurück als CEO" (in German). Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  11. ↑ https://www.railjournal.com/financial/stadler-appoints-new-ceo-as-order-intake-soars/
  12. ↑ "Personelle Veränderungen in der Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG und in der Robert Bosch GmbH". Robert Bosch GmbH. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  13. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvwIMHUBYz4
  14. ↑ https://www.eda.admin.ch/europa/en/home/europapolitik/ueberblick/bilaterale-1.html
  15. ↑ https://www.bluewin.ch/de/news/schweiz/russland-ernennt-peter-spuhler-zum-konsul-456914.html
  16. ↑ https://www.handelszeitung.ch/unternehmen/peter-spuhler-nimmt-amt-als-russischer-honorarkonsul-nicht-an
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