Jürgen Beck (politician)

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Jürgen Beck
Member of the Landtag of Liechtenstein for Oberland
In office
5 February 2017 – 7 February 2021
In office
13 March 2005 – 3 February 2013
Personal details
Born (1961-07-22) 22 July 1961 (age 63)
Chur, Switzerland
Political partyThe Independents (from 2013)
Other political
affiliations		Patriotic Union (until 2013)
Children3

Jürgen Beck (born 22 July 1961) is a politician from Liechtenstein who served in the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 2005 to 2013 and again from 2017 to 2021.

Life

Beck was born on 22 July 1961 in Chur as the son of Max Beck and Hilda Vedana. He attended secondary school in Vaduz, and then conducted a commercial apprenticeship at Hilti in Schaan. Since 1990 he has been the manager and co-owner of a transport and waste company in Vaduz, of which was founded by his father. As of 2021, he has been a member of the board of the Liechtenstein transport industry since 1998 and since 2005 he has been the vice president of the Buch waste disposal association. He was a member of the audit committee for passenger and road transport companies.[1]

From 1999 to 2007 he was a member of the Vaduz municipal council as a member of the Patriotic Union. He was a member of the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 2005 to 2013 as a member of the Patriotic Union. During this time, he was the head of the Liechtenstein delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Union from 2009 to 2013.[1]

In 2013 he left the party and joined The Independents. He was then elected to the Landtag as a member of the party in 2017.[1] When Erich Hasler was expelled from The Independents in August 2018, Beck was the only Landtag member belonging to the party to side with Harry Quaderer.[2] The rest (Herbert Elkuch and Thomas Rehak) left the party in response to Hasler's expulsion.[2][3] He did not seek re-election in the 2021 Liechtenstein general election.[4]

Beck married Barbara Miller (born 17 December 1961) on 4 June 1988 and they have three children together. He lives in Vaduz.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Beck, Jürgen". Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein (in German). 31 May 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Rehak und Elkuch kehren DU den Rücken". Liechtensteiner Vaterland (in German). 17 August 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
  3. ^ Marxer, Wilfred (10 March 2020). "Democrats for Liechtenstein (DpL)". Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein (in German). Retrieved 21 February 2024.
  4. ^ "DU-Abgeordnete Quaderer und Beck kandidieren nicht mehr". Liechtensteiner Vaterland (in German). 5 October 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2025.