Ulrich Schlüer
Ulrich Schlüer | |
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| Member of the National Council | |
| In office 2 March 2009 – 4 December 2011 | |
| Constituency | Zürich |
| In office 4 December 1995 – 2 December 2007 | |
| Constituency | Zürich |
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| Born | 17 October 1944 University of Zürich |
Ulrich Schlüer (born 17 October 1944) is a right wing
Biography
Schlüer studied History and German language at the
Schlüer acted as secretary to Swiss right-wing politician James Schwarzenbach, and in 1979 founded the nationalist-conservative Schweizerzeit newspaper.
He was the mayor of
In 2007, Schlüer's parliamentary immunity was suspended due to a lawsuit pressed by a journalist whom Schlüer had attacked in a Schweizerzeit article. In September 2007, Schlüer figured in an interview in The Independent, in which he commented on UN special rapporteur on racism Doudou Diène, who had expressed concern over the "racist and xenophobic dynamic" in the campaign pursued by Schlüer's party that
- "He's from Senegal where they have a lot of problems of their own which need to be solved. I don't know why he comes here instead of getting on with that."[1]
From 2007 to 2009, Schlüer spearheaded a
He once sought to establish a Swiss branch of the German anti-Islam activist Udo Ulfkotte's Pax Europa organisation,[3] and in 2007 he was scheduled to hold a speech at a "Stop the Islamisation of Europe" rally in Cologne.[4]
References
- ^ "Rightwing politician claims minarets are a political symbol". swissinfo. 6 October 2009.
- ^ "A minaret too far for Europe". Mail & Guardian. 15 October 2007.
- ^ "Aus der Internationalen der Antiislamisten". berneroberlaender.ch (in German). 26 July 2011.
- ^ "Factsheet: Swiss People's Party (Schweizerische Volkspartei, SVP)". Bridge Initiative. Georgetown University. 22 December 2020.
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