Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf

Quick Facts

Full Name	Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Mar 16, 1956(1956-03-16)
Age	68
Birthplace	Felsberg
Country	Switzerland
Birth City	Canton of Graubünden
Horoscope	Pisces

Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf Biography

Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on March 16, 1956 in Felsberg, Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf (born 16 March 1956) is a Swiss politician as well as a lawyer. She was a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from between 2008 and 2015. She was chief of the Federal Department of Finance (the Swiss finance minister). She was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2012.

After a reshuffle of portfolios following the election of two councilors in 2010Widmer-Schlumpf was appointed to replace outgoing Hans-Rudolf-Merz as the director of the Federal Department of Finance which she was in charge since.

After the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) won a record vote of over 29% in the 2015 general elections, Widmer-Schlumpf announced she would not run for re-election to the Federal Council on 28 October 2015. She was succeeded by Guy Parmelin.

Widmer-Schlumpf is married and has three children. She is the daughter of former federal councillor Leon Schlumpf. She is the second federal councillor whose father had held the same office, after Eugène Ruffy, and the sixth woman to be elected to the Swiss Federal Council. Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf is also patron of the project SAFFA 2020, alongside the federal councillors (Bundesrat) Doris Leuthard, Simonetta Sommaruga and the former councillor (aBR) Micheline Calmy-Rey.

In a further unprecedented move in Swiss politics in 2008, on April 2 the leadership of the national party demanded that Widmer-Schlumpf resign of the Federal Council at once and to quit the party. If she refused to leave The SVP required that their Grisons section remove her. Because Swiss parties are legal the federations of cantonal party and cantonal parties, the SVP was not able to expel her directly. her. The Grisons section stood with Widmer- Schlumpf which led to its expulsion by the SVP national organization on June 1st. In response to the expulsion, the ex- SVP Grisons section formed the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland. Its Bern section of which Schmid is a part was also a part of the new party.

Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf Net Worth

Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf is one of the richest Politician from Switzerland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Widmer-Schlumpf earned her bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Zurich in 1981 and then her LLD in the year 1990. She practiced as an attorney from 1987 until 1998. Her appointment to the court district of Trin in 1985, and presided from 1991 until 1997. As an official of the Swiss People’s Party, she was the cantonal legislature of Grisons from 1994 until 1998, and was elected in 1998 to the government of the canton in the role of the very first female president president, as president in 2001 and 2005.

Widmer-Schlumpf has been named an alternative in the race against Christoph Blocher by the Christian Democrat, Social Democrat and Green factions during the Swiss Federal Council elections of 12 December 2007. At the beginning of her campaign, she was awarded 116 votes, as opposed with 111 votes received by Blocher. After the 2nd round she was elected as a federal councillor, receiving an enumeration of 125 votes, the majority of which went to Blocher and 6 votes that were unvalid or empty. She accepted her appointment on the 13th December 2007. She took over Blocher’s former job as the chief of the Department of Justice and Police.

Widmer-Schlumpf was elected Vice President of the Confederation for 2011, alongside President Micheline Calmy-Rey. On 14 December 2011 she was elected President of the Confederation for 2012—the fourth woman to hold the post (after Ruth Dreifuss in 1999, Calmy-Rey in 2007 and 2011 and Doris Leuthard in 2010), and the third woman in a row. Due to a large amount of turnover on the Federal Council, she was the longest-serving member to have not yet served as President.

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Eveline Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Switzerland. Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf celebrates birthday on March 16 of every year.