Paul Schmidhalter

Paul Schmidhalter
Member of the National Council of Switzerland
In office 28 November 1983 – 3 December 1995
Constituency	Canton of Valais
President of the National Council
In office 30 November 1992 – 29 November 1993
Preceded by	Hans-Rudolf Nebiker
Succeeded by	Gret Haller
Personal details
Born	(1931-01-12)12 January 1931 Brig, Switzerland
Died	23 August 2005(2005-08-23) (aged 74) Montana, Switzerland
Political party	Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland

Paul Schmidhalter (1 December 1931 – 23 August 2005) was a Swiss politician. He was a member of the National Council of Switzerland from 1983 to 1995 and served as the President of the National Council from 1992 to 1993. He was a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland.

Biography

Paul Schmidhalter was born in the town of Brig, Switzerland, now part of the municipality of Brig-Glis in the Canton of Valais, on 1 December 1931 to Leopold and Olga Schmidhalter. After he finished high school, he studied engineering at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He operated his own civil engineering practice for a number of years.

In 1973, he was elected to the city council of Brig and the Grand Council of Valais. He held his city council seat until 1983 and his deal in the Grand Council until 1985. In 1983, he was elected to the National Council from Valais. In 1992, he was selected to the council presidency. After his one-year term ended, he continued to serve for two more years. He did not run for re-election in 2005.

Schmidhalter died on 23 August 2005 in the town of Montana, Switzerland from cancer.

External links

• Biography of Paul Schmidhalter on the website of the Swiss Parliament. (German)