Beat Jans

Beat Jans (born,12 July 1964, Basel) is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party (SP) and Member of the National Council of Switzerland.[1]

Beat Jans
Member of Grand Council of Basel-Stadt
In office
2001–2011
ConstituencyBasel-Stadt
Vice-president of SP
In office
2015–2020
Member of the National Council of Switzerland
In office
2010–2020
Personal details
Born12 July 1964
Basel
CitizenshipSwiss
Political partySP
Alma materETH Zurich
Websitehttps://beatjans.ch

Education

He completed his apprenticeship as a farmer in 1985 and followed up on his studies at the Technical college for tropical agriculture from where he graduated as an Agricultural Technician in 1987.[2] He graduated in Environmental Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in 1994.[2]

Professional career

He was involved in the development projects of the Swiss Helvetas in Paraguay and Haitï between 1987 and 1989[2] and was a member of the board at Pro Natura between 2000 and 2010,[2] from which he resigned at the time, he assumed office as a member of the National Council of Switzerland.[3] Between 2010 until 2015 he was a member of the board at ecos.[2]

Political career

Beat Jans joined the SP in 1998 and became a member of the Grand Council of Basel Stadt in 2001.[2] In the Grand Council he was a member of the Commission of Economics and Taxes.[2] In He remained a member of the Grand Council of Basel Stadt also after he joined the National Council of Switzerland in 2010[3] succeeding Ruedi Rechsteiner[4] and only resigned in 2011.[1] He was re-elected into the National Council in the Federal Elections in 2011,[5] 2015[6] and 2019.[7] In the National Council he was also member of the Commission of Economics and Taxes.[8] As it became clear, that Anita Fetz would not stand for another term in the Council of States for Basel-Stadt,[9] he put himself forward as a candidate, but later withdrew his candidacy to enable a female candidate for the SP.[10] Following he was again a candidate for the National Council and Eva Herzog for the Council of States. Both candidacies were successful in the Federal Elections of October 2019.[11]

He was elected Vice-President of the SP in 2015, succeeding Jaqueline Fehr.[12] He resigned from the Vice-Presidency of the SP in 2015, who abolished the offices of the President and vice-President and following instated a Co-Presidency of Mattea Meyer and Cédric Wermuth.[13]

He was elected into the Executive Council of Basel Stadt on the 25 October 2020[14] and as its president in November 2020.[15] Sarah Wyss of the SP succeeded him, after he resigned as a member of the National council in December 2020.[16]

Personal life

Beat Jans is married and is the father of two daughters.[17]

References
  1. "Ratsmitglied ansehen". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  2. "Beat Jans". SP Basel-Stadt (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  3. http://www.cs2.ch, CS2-Creative Solutions GmbH- 4450 Sissach-. "Neuer SP-Nationalrat Beat Jans bleibt im Grossen Rat". www.onlinereports.ch (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  4. "Beat Jans geht für Rudolf Rechsteiner nach Bern". Aargauer Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  5. "Wahlen 2011". www.staatskanzlei.bs.ch (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  6. "Wahlen 2015". www.staatskanzlei.bs.ch (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  7. "Wahlen 2019". www.staatskanzlei.bs.ch (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  8. "Mitglieder der Kommission für Wirtschaft und Abgaben des Nationalrates (WAK-NR)" (PDF). infosperber.ch. 23 November 2016.
  9. "Polit-Urgestein tritt zurück - Fetz ist zuversichtlich, dass es keinen Frauenstreik mehr braucht". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2019-06-20. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  10. "Weg frei für Eva Herzog – Beat Jans zieht Ständeratskandidatur zurück". bz - Zeitung für die Region Basel (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  11. "Linker Aufschwung für Basel im Nationalrat ++ Katja Christ neu dabei, Herzog Ständerätin ++ Baselbiet muss in den 2. Wahlgang". bz - Zeitung für die Region Basel (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  12. Schultheiss, Jeremias (2015-12-05). "SP-Delegierte wählen Beat Jans zum Vizepräsidenten". TagesWoche (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  13. "SP-Präsidium: Duo Mattea Meyer und Cédric Wermuth folgt auf Christian Levrat". SP Schweiz (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  14. "Wahlen 25. Oktober 2020". www.staatskanzlei.bs.ch (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-25.
  15. "Zweiter Wahlgang: Stephanie Eymann, Kaspar Sutter und Esther Keller in den Regierungsrat gewählt, Beat Jans ist neuer Regierungspräsident". www.staatskanzlei.bs.ch (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  16. "Basler SP-Politikerin Sarah Wyss im Nationalrat vereidigt". www.parlament.ch. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
  17. "SP-Nationalrat Beat Jans wagt einen Seiltanz mit seiner Familie". Schweizer Illustrierte (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-24.
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