Max Binder | |
Office: | Councillor of State of Valais |
Term Start: | 25 November 1991 |
Term End: | 29 November 2015 |
Office2: | President of the National Council of Switzerland |
Term Start2: | 1 November 2003 |
Term End2: | 29 November 2004 |
Predecessor2: | Yves Christen |
Successor2: | Jean-Philippe Maitre |
Birth Date: | 26 November 1947 |
Birth Place: | Illnau-Effretikon, Switzerland |
Party: | Swiss People's Party |
Profession: | farmer |
Max Binder (born 26 November 1947) is a Swiss politician. He was a member of the National Council from the Canton of Zurich from 1991 to 2015 and served as the President (speaker) of the National Council from 2003 to 2004. A farmer by profession, he was member of the parliament of the canton of Zurich from 1985 to 1990. Since 1990, he is a municipal councilor in Illnau-Effretikon in charge of the Health Department.
He was elected to the National Council in 1991 as a candidate of the Swiss People's Party and re-elected 11 times. He paid visits to India as deputy Speaker (1993) and Bulgaria and Canada as Speaker (2004).