Ueli Maurer
| Ueli Maurer | |
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| Head of the Department of Finance | |
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Assumed office 1 January 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf |
| President of Switzerland | |
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In office 1 January 2013 – 31 December 2013 |
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| Vice President | Didier Burkhalter |
| Preceded by | Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf |
| Succeeded by | Didier Burkhalter |
| Vice President of Switzerland | |
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In office 1 January 2012 – 31 December 2012 |
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| President | Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf |
| Preceded by | Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf |
| Succeeded by | Didier Burkhalter |
| Head of the Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports | |
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In office 1 January 2009 – 31 December 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Samuel Schmid |
| Succeeded by | Guy Parmelin |
| Member of the Swiss Federal Council | |
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Assumed office 1 January 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Samuel Schmid |
| Chairman of the Swiss People's Party | |
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In office 1996–2008 |
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| Preceded by | Hans Uhlmann |
| Succeeded by | Toni Brunner |
| Personal details | |
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1 December 1950 Wetzikon, Switzerland |
| Political party | Swiss People's Party |
| Children | 6 |
| Religion | Swiss Reformed |
Ulrich "Ueli" Maurer (born 1 December 1950 in Wetzikon) is a member of the Swiss Federal Council. Formerly head of the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports (the Swiss defence minister), Maurer has been the head of the Federal Department of Finance (the Swiss finance minister) since January 1, 2016.
As a leading figure in the right-wing populist Swiss People's Party, he was elected by the Swiss Federal Assembly to succeed Federal Councillor Samuel Schmid in the Swiss Federal Council election of 10 December 2008 and took office on 1 January 2009.
Maurer has served as Vice-President of the Swiss Confederation for the year 2012, as President of the Swiss Confederation for the year 2013, and was reelected Federal Councillor in the Swiss Federal Council election of 8 December 2015.
Maurer grew up as the son of a poor farmer in the Zürcher Oberland. After a commercial apprenticeship, Maurer received a federal accountant's diploma. He was director of the Zürich Farmers' Association from 1994 to 2008, and was president of the Swiss Vegetable Farmers' Association and the Farmers' Machinery Association (Maschinenring) until his election to the Federal Council.
Currently resident in Hinwil in the canton of Zürich, Maurer is married and has six children. He has served in the Swiss Army with the rank of major, commanding a bicycle infantry battalion.
From 1978 to 1986, Maurer was a member of the municipal government of Hinwil. He was elected to the cantonal parliament of Zürich in 1983, which he presided over in 1991. In that year, he lost an election to the cantonal government against Moritz Leuenberger, as his opponents derided Maurer's campaign as inept and himself as a naïve devotee of party strongman Christoph Blocher. In the same year's national election, though, Maurer was elected to the National Council.
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