Pirmin Bischof

Pirmin Bischof
Member of the Council of States of Switzerland
ConstituencySoleure
Incumbent
Assumed office
11 December 2011
Member of the National Council
In office
3 December 2007 – 11 December 2011
Personal details
Born (1959-02-24) 24 February 1959 (age 67)
Solothurn
PartyThe Centre
EducationUniversity of Bern
Harvard Law School (LLM)
OccupationLawyer

Pirmin Bischof (born 24 February 1959) is a Swiss politician who is a member of the Council of States of Switzerland.

Biography

He was elected in 2007 to the National Council and re e-elected in 2011, and later elected to the Council of States in 2015.

Political career

He has been a member of the executive of the city of Solothurn since May 1997. From April 2005 to November 2007, he also sat in the parliament of the canton of Solothurn.

In the 2011 federal elections, he was re-elected to the National Council, before being elected in the second round of voting as the representative of the canton of Solothurn to the Council of States. He was re-elected in the first round in 2023.

References

  1. ↑ https://hcswitzerland.clubs.harvard.edu/article.html?aid=232
  2. 1 2 3 "Ratsmitglied ansehen". Federal Assembly. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  3. ↑ "Ständerat Kanton Solothurn - Pirmin Bischof gewählt, FDP-Kandidat Ankli enttäuscht". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). Retrieved 2025-10-02.