Ernst Sieber

Pastor Sieber

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Year of Birth

1927

Nationality

CH

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Activist

Ernst Sieber (24 February 1927 – 19 May 2018) was a Swiss pastor and social activist who was one of the most popular and best known personalities associated with the Swiss Reformed Church. He was ordained in the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich.
In 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.

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