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Günter Vogt
Günter Vogt (born 17 August 1961) is a politician from Liechtenstein who served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 2017 to 2025. Career Vogt was born on 17 August 1961 in Chur as the son of Adolf Vogt and Bernadette Schwarz as one of four children, including Heinz Vogt. He attended primary school in Balzers, and then secondary school in Vaduz. From 1977 to 1981 he conducted a toolmaker apprenticeship at Hoval AG in Vaduz. He studied mechanical engineering in Vaduz, where he graduated with a diploma in 1990. From 1981 to 1991 he worked in various jobs as a toolmaker and project engineer at Balzers AG, and also at Timeler Engineering in Greenacre, New South Wales from 1982 to 1984. From 1991 to 2012 he was the managing director and chairman of the board of directors at ITW Ingenieurunternehmung AG in Balzers. From 2014 to 2020 he was the managing director and chairman of the board of directors at ACT Anzeige- & Informationstechnik AG in Maienfeld. Since 2020, he has been a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chur
'' Chur (locally) or ; ; ; ; ; ; or ; , and . is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, town of the Switzerland, Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, canton of the Grisons and lies in the Alpine Rhine, Grisonian Rhine Valley, where the Rhine turns towards the north, in the northern part of the canton. The city, on the right bank of the Rhine, is reputedly the oldest town in Switzerland. The official language of Chur is German language, German,In this context ‘German’ is used as an umbrella term for any variety of German. A person is allowed to communicate with the authorities using any kind of German, in written or oral form. However the authorities always use Swiss Standard German (the Swiss variety of Standard German) in documents and any written form. In spoken interaction ''Hochdeutsch'' (Swiss Standard German or what the particular speaker considers as High German) or any other dialectal variant can be used. but the main spoken language is the local variant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Free Trade Association
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a regional trade organization and free trade area consisting of four List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe, European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The organization operates in parallel with the European Union (EU), and all four member states participate in the European single market and are part of the Schengen Area. They are not, however, party to the European Union Customs Union. EFTA was historically one of the two dominant western European trade blocs, but is now much smaller and closely associated with its historical competitor, the European Union. It was established on 3 May 1960 to serve as an alternative trade bloc for those European states that were unable or unwilling to join the then European Economic Community (EEC), the main predecessor of the EU. The Stockholm Convention (1960), to establish the EFTA, was signed on 4 January 1960 in the Swedish capital by seven countrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Landtag Of Liechtenstein (2017–2021)
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriotic Union (Liechtenstein) Members Of The Landtag Of Liechtenstein
Patriotic Union is a name held by political parties in some countries: *Patriotic Union (Chile) () *Patriotic Union (Colombia) () *Patriotic Union (), the former name of Patriotic Force – Prodromos Emfietzoglou * Patriotic Union (Kurdistan) () *Patriotic Union (Liechtenstein) The Patriotic Union (, VU) is a liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative political party in Liechtenstein. The VU is one of the two major List of political parties in Liechtenstein, political parties in Liechtenstein, along with the Monarchism, ... () * Patriotic Union (Lithuania) () * Patriotic Union (Panama) () * Patriotic Union (Spain) () Other organizations with the phrase "Patriotic Union" in their name include: * Free Patriotic Union (), Tunisia * Patriotic Union for Democracy and Progress, Congo * Patriotic Union, German far-right group {{disambig, political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liechtenstein Engineers
Liechtenstein (, ; ; ), officially the Principality of Liechtenstein ( ), is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in the Central European Alps, between Austria in the east and north and Switzerland in the west and south. Liechtenstein is a semi-constitutional monarchy headed by the prince of Liechtenstein of the House of Liechtenstein, currently led by Hans-Adam II. It is Europe's fourth-smallest country, with an area of just over and a population of 40,023. It is the world's smallest country to border two countries, and is one of the few countries with no debt. Liechtenstein is divided into 11 municipalities. Its capital is Vaduz, and its largest municipality is Schaan. It is a member of the United Nations, the European Free Trade Association, and the Council of Europe. It is not a member state of the European Union, but it participates in both the Schengen Area and the European Economic Area. It has a customs union and a monetary union with Switzerland, with its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Balzers
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Births
Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hansjörg Büchel
Hansjörg (or ''Hansjoerg'') may refer to: Hansjörg *Hansjörg Aemisegger (1952–2025), Swiss racing cyclist *Hansjörg Aschenwald (born 1965), Austrian Nordic combined skier * Hansjörg Dittus, German physicist whose fields of expertise are gravitational physics, metrology, inertial sensors *Hansjörg Felmy (1931–2007), German actor *Hansjörg Göritz (born 1959), German architect *Hansjörg Hirschbühl (born 1937), Swiss bobsledder who competed in the early 1950s *Hansjörg Jäkle (born 1971), German former ski jumper who competed from 1993 to 2002 *Hansjörg Knauthe (born 1944), East German former biathlete, who competed at the Olympics *Hansjörg Kunze (born 1959), German track and field athlete * Hansjörg Lunger (born 1964), Italian ski mountaineer * Giovanni Giorgio Moroder, also known as ''Hansjörg Moroder'' (born 1940), Italian music producer and DJ, the " Father of Disco" *Hansjörg Pauli (1931–2007), Swiss musicologist, writer, and music critic *Hansjörg Raffl (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Liechtenstein Local Elections
The 2019 Liechtenstein local elections were held on 24 March and 14 April to elect the municipal councils and the mayors of the eleven municipalities of Liechtenstein. Electoral system The municipal councils (German: ''Gemeinderat'') are composed of an even number of councillors plus the mayor (German: ''Gemeindevorsteher''). The number of councillors is determined by population count: 6 or 8 councillors for population 1,500, 8 or 10 councillors for population between 1,500 and 3,000, and 10 or 12 councillors for population over 3,000. Councillors were elected in single multi-member districts, consisting of the municipality's territory, using an open list proportional representation system. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The mayors were elected in a two-round system. As three of the municipalities saw none of the candidates achieving a majority in the first round, a second round was held four weeks later, where the candidate with a plurality were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Balzers
Balzers () is a municipality and village located in southern Liechtenstein. In 2024, the village had a population of 4,806. The main part of the village is situated along the east bank of the Rhine. History and culture Historically, the present-day form of the village consists of two different villages, the actual Balzers in the east and Mäls in the west. Not visible to the unaware, the division still persists in the local village culture, where it manifests in half-serious local competition. Some customs, such as the "Funken", a springtime ritual with pre-Christian origins involving a huge bonfire, are still being practised by each separately. The location was first mentioned in 842 as ''Palazoles''. The name originates from Latin ''palatiola'', meaning small palace. Balzers is the home of the Gutenberg Castle, which was built around 1200 on a rocky hill between Balzers and Mäls. Administration Balzers is locally administered by the mayor and a 10-person municipal counc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liechtensteiner Vaterland
''Liechtensteiner Vaterland'' (; lit. "Liechtenstein Fatherland") is the largest daily newspaper in Liechtenstein. Published by Vaduzer Medienhaus AG, it is the official newspaper of the Patriotic Union party. History In January 1936, Christian-Social People's Party and Liechtenstein Homeland Service merged to form the Patriotic Union. As a result, the parties respective newspapers, the '' Liechtensteiner Nachrichten'' and ''Stimme für heimische Wirtschaft, Kultur und Volkstum'' merged to form the ''Liechtensteiner Vaterland'' with Carl Freiherr von Vogelsang as the first editor in chief. The newspaper came under controversy in January 1937 when Vogelsang publicly denounced Jews living in Liechtenstein and sent numerous letters detailing them to officials in Nazi Germany. As a result, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein Josef Hoop ordered the offices of the Vaterland to be searched for any letters to be confiscated and Vogelsang promptly left the country. Editing was then ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
