Ernst Sieber
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Ernst Sieber in 2007
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| Born |
24 February 1927 Horgen |
| Residence | Zürich-Seebach |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Alma mater | University of Zürich |
| Occupation | Swiss pastor, social worker, writer and former politician |
| Years active | since 1957 |
| Notable work | Founder of the Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber foundation and relief organisation |
| Spouse(s) | Sonja Sieber-Vasalli |
| Awards | Ernst Sieber#Awards |
| Website | Official website (German) |
Ernst Sieber (born 24 February 1927 in Horgen, citizen of Zürich) is one of the most popular and best known personalities associated with the Reformed church in Switzerland. In winter 1963 he initiated the basis for the relief organisation Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber, founded in 1988 for disadvantaged people, to help to alleviate the hardships around addiction, disease, violence and homelessness. Sieber wrote books about his work as social worker to finance the foundation. From 1991 to 1995 he represented the citizens of the Canton of Zürich as member of the Evangelische Volkspartei (EVP) political party in the Nationalrat, the lower Swiss parliament's house.
Born as son of Katharina Josepha née Hess and Hans, Ernst Sieber raised in the municipality of Horgen on Zürichsee lake shore. Sieber calls himself a dreamy child, I preferred to go fishing with my brother than to go to school, but also he said on occasion of an interview in February 2015: The sense of justice and for the most vulnerable people in society has always been in me. First he worked as farmhand in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and graduated from the former Zürich agricultural school Strickhof at the present Irchelpark in 1947. In 1950 he gained the Maturität diploma on the second-chance education. He decided to study theology and ordinated at the Theological Faculty of the University of Zürich in 1956.
As a vicar, community and prison chaplain and priest Sieber engaged for the people on the margins of our society. After his tenure between 1956 and 1967 in Uitikon-Waldegg, in 1967 he became the parish priest in Zürich-Altstetten where he worked until his retirement as pastor in 1992.
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