Jürg Stahl
Member of the National Council
In office
6 December 1999 – 2 June 2019
Personal details
Born (1968-01-16) 16 January 1968
Winterthur, Switzerland
Political partySwiss People's Party
ProfessionPharmacist

Jürg Stahl (born 16 January 1968, in Winterthur) is a Swiss politician of the Swiss People's Party. He was a member of the National Council for the canton of Zürich from 1999 to 2019 and served as the president of the National Council from 2016 to 2017.[1]

Biography

Stahl underwent advanced training as a pharmacist in Neuchâtel and graduated in 1992. He supplemented his education with a diploma in small business management at the University of St. Gallen. Between 1996 and 2004, Stahl ran a pharmacy in Winterthur. In 2004 he was elected as a member of the management board of the health insurance company Group Mutuel.[2]

Stahl's career in politics began as a member of Winterthur's municipal council between 1994 and 2001.[2][3] In 2001, he missed the election to Winterthur's "Stadtrat" (city executive) by a single vote.[3]

Stahl was elected to the National Council in 1999 and reelected in 2003, 2007, 2011, and 2015.[1] In 2016, Stahl was elected to succeed Christa Markwalder as president of the National Council, only days after he had been elected as president of Swiss Olympic (succeeding Jörg Schild).[4][5] In June 2018, he accepted a position with Schweizerischen Drogistenverband, the Swiss druggists association.[6]

He announced in February 2019 that he would not run for another term in the National Council.[7] In 2020, Stahl was elected as the new president of the supervisory body of the Swiss National Science Foundation, replacing interim president Felicitas Pauss.[8]

Stahl served in the Swiss Air Force with the rank of major.[1][2] He is married and has a daughter.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Jürg Stahl". parlament.ch. Retrieved 2019-12-28.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "CV Jürg Stahl" (in German). Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Der Unspektakuläre". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 26 November 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "SVP-Nationalrat Jürg Stahl ist höchster Schweizer". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 28 November 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  5. ↑ "Der Turner probt den Spagat". Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). 25 November 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  6. ↑ "Jürg Stahl ist oberster Schweizer Drogist" (in German). Züriost. 2018-06-15.
  7. ↑ "Jürg Stahl hört auf". Tages Anzeiger (in German). 2019-02-28.
  8. ↑ "Jürg Stahl is the new President of the SNSF Foundation Council". snf.ch. Retrieved 2022-04-27.
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