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| Personal details |
| Name |
Altherr |
| First name |
Hans |
| Date of birth |
29 april 1950 |
| Origin of |
Trogen |
| Address |
in Nideren 2, 9043 Trogen |
| Civil status |
Divorced, partner: Andrea Kind |
| Children |
3 grown-up children (1977, 1979, 1983) |
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| Education and career |
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Primary and secondary schools in Rorschach SG |
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Baccalaureate (type B) at the Cantonal school in Trogen AR |
| 1969-1974 |
Studied law at the universities of Geneva and und Zurich, lic. iur. |
| 1979 |
Doctoral thesis on the Commercial Court of canton St. Gallen afterward |
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Private practice as an attorney in St. Gallen and Trogen; for ca. 14 years; juvenile prosecutor in Appenzell A.Rh. (part-time) |
| since 1988 |
Owner of Weiss AG, Walzenhausen
(www.weiss-diamant.com ) |
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| Political activities |
| 1976-1993 |
Communal Council in Trogen (President for 11 years) |
| 1979-1993 |
Member and from 1984 President of the management committee of Heiden regional hospital |
| 1981-1987 |
and 1988-1993 President of the Communal Council |
| 1987-2009 |
President of the school for healthcare and nursing at the Children’s Hospital in St. Gallen |
| 1989-1998 |
Cantonal Parliament of Appenzell Ausserrhoden |
| 1993-2000 |
President of the management committee of the Communal Nursing Homes Association for Heiden and Trogen |
| 1998-2005 |
Cantonal Council of Appenzell Ausserrhoden (Head of Economic Affairs and from 2003 Culture) |
| 1999-2003 |
President of the Intergovernmental Conference of the cantons of eastern Switzerland |
| 2000-2003 |
President of the Cantonal Council of Appenzell Ausserrhoden |
| 2001-2002 |
President of the Intergovernmental Committee of the International Conference of Lake Constance |
| since 2004 |
Council of States (Member of the Finance Committee and the Finance Delegation, the Committee for Social Security and Health and the Defence Committee, Substitute Member of the Drafting Committee, President of the Security Policy Committee (2008-2009), President the Finance Delegation (2010), Vice President of the Council (2011) |
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| Political Party |
FDP.The Liberals |
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| Further acitivities |
Since 2010 President of the Supervisory Board of the UAS of St. Gallen (part-time). |
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| Languages |
German (Mother tongue), French, [English] |