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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
Websitebeatjans.ch

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

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. 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 [de] in Paraguay and Haiti between 1987 and 1989[2] and was a member of the board at Pro Natura between 2000 and 2010,[2] when he resigned to assume office as a member of the National Council of Switzerland.[3] Between 2010 until 2015 he was a member of the board at ecos [de].[2]

Political career

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] He remained a member of the Grand Council 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 to 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 to enable a female candidate for the SP.[10] He was again a candidate for the National Council and Eva Herzog for the Council of States. Both candidacies were successful in the October 2019 federal elections.[11]

He was elected vice-president of the SP in 2015, succeeding Jaqueline Fehr,[12] but resigned in 2015 when the party abolished the offices of the president and vice-president and instituted 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

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

References

  1. ^ a b "Beat Jans". The Federal Assembly — The Swiss Parliament. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Beat Jans" (in German). Sozialdemokratische Partei Basel-Stadt. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Neuer SP-Nationalrat Beat Jans bleibt im Grossen Rat". Online Reports (in German). 5 January 2010. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  4. ^ "Beat Jans geht für Rudolf Rechsteiner nach Bern". Aargauer Zeitung (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Wahlen 2011" (in German). Kanton Basel-Stadt. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Wahlen 2015" (in German). Kanton Basel-Stadt. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  7. ^ "Wahlen 2019" (in German). Kanton Basel-Stadt. Archived from the original on 27 October 2020. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  8. ^ "Mitglieder der Kommission für Wirtschaft und Abgaben des Nationalrates (WAK-NR)" (PDF). Nationalrat. 23 November 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-27. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  9. ^ "Polit-Urgestein tritt zurück - Fetz ist zuversichtlich, dass es keinen Frauenstreik mehr braucht". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 20 June 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  10. ^ "Weg frei für Eva Herzog – Beat Jans zieht Ständeratskandidatur zurück". Zeitung für die Region Basel (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  11. ^ "Linker Aufschwung für Basel im Nationalrat ++ Katja Christ neu dabei, Herzog Ständerätin ++ Baselbiet muss in den 2. Wahlgang". Zeitung für die Region Basel (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  12. ^ Schultheiss, Jeremias (5 December 2015). "SP-Delegierte wählen Beat Jans zum Vizepräsidenten". TagesWoche (in Swiss High German). Archived from the original on 2018-11-07. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  13. ^ "SP-Präsidium: Duo Mattea Meyer und Cédric Wermuth folgt auf Christian Levrat" (in German). SP Schweiz. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
  14. ^ "Wahlen 25. Oktober 2020" (in German). Kanton Basel-Stadt. Archived from the original on 28 October 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  15. ^ "Zweiter Wahlgang: Stephanie Eymann, Kaspar Sutter und Esther Keller in den Regierungsrat gewählt, Beat Jans ist neuer Regierungspräsident" (in German). Kanton Basel-Stadt. Archived from the original on 13 December 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  16. ^ "Basler SP-Politikerin Sarah Wyss im Nationalrat vereidigt" (in German). Das Schweizer Parlament. 18 December 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  17. ^ "SP-Nationalrat Beat Jans wagt einen Seiltanz mit seiner Familie". Schweizer Illustrierte (in German). Retrieved 24 October 2020.
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