Erich Hess (politician)
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Erich Hess | |
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.jpg) Erich Hess (2023) | |
| Member of the National Council (Switzerland) | |
| Assumed office 30 November 2015 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Erich Johann Hess 25 March 1981 |
| Party | Swiss People's Party |
| Domestic partner | Lilya Conte |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Switzerland |
| Branch/service | Swiss Armed Forces |
| Years of service | 1999–current |
| Rank | Wachtmeister |
Erich Johann Hess[1] (/hɛss/ born 25 March 1981) is a Swiss businessman, truck driver and politician. Hess serves as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) for the Swiss People's Party since 2015.[2] He served as councillor in the city council of Bern between 2005 and 2010 and is currently serving a second term. He is also a former member of the Grand Council of Bern between 2010 and 2016 and between 2018 and 2020, where he was a member on the audit and justice committees.[3]
Further, Hess is vice president of the Swiss People's Party of Bern, executive director of the Swiss People's Party of Bern (Cantonal) and Honorary President of the Young SVP.
Hess was born 25 March 1981 in Bern, Switzerland. He completed an apprenticeship as a truck driver and has not received any further formal education. He was often referred to represent the working class in the Swiss legislative.[4]
Career
He initially worked for about a decade as truck driver, a position he stills continue to hold to this day. In 2016, Swiss newspaper Blick made public that Hess is not only a 'regular working class guy' and ventured out into real estate activities[5][6][7] and started to refer to himself as businessman on the parliament's official website.
Hess currently is associated as controlling shareholder of several real estate companies in the Canton of Bern. Some of these ventures are together with fellow politician Thomas Fuchs, in whose ancestral home Hess is a tenant. He is a limited partner in Bern West Immobilien KMG,[8] the only board member of Erich Hess Immobilien AG,[9] sole owner of Immobiliengesellschaft Moserstrasse 24 AG,[10] sole owner of Optinovum Immobilien AG,[11] Optiviva Immobilien AG[12] and several other consulting and trading companies.