Susanne Vincenz-Stauffacher
ParteivorsitzCo-President of FDP.The Liberals; National Councillor for St. Gallen
FDP.Die Liberalen (FDP/PLR) · Schweiz
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Susanne Vincenz-Stauffacher (born 21 January 1967 in Wattwil, canton St. Gallen) is a Swiss attorney and politician of the FDP/PLR. A self-employed lawyer and notary in St. Gallen since 1993, she has served as a National Councillor for canton St. Gallen since 2019, having previously sat in the Cantonal Council of St. Gallen from 2018 to 2020. She presided over the FDP.Die Liberalen Frauen Schweiz (FDP Women Switzerland) from 2020 to 2025, during which she championed the popular initiative for individual taxation. In October 2025 she was elected co-president of the FDP.Die Liberalen alongside Benjamin Mühlemann, succeeding Thierry Burkart.
Wahlergebnisse
Member of the National Council (Nationalrätin)
Member of the National Council (Nationalrätin)2023-10-22
Re-elected (reported approx. 30,199 votes)
Canton of St. Gallen
Member of the National Council (Nationalrätin)
Member of the National Council (Nationalrätin)2019-10-20
Elected (newly elected; reported approx. 22,951 votes)
Canton of St. Gallen
Member of the Cantonal Council of St. Gallen (Kantonsrätin)
Member of the Cantonal Council of St. Gallen (Kantonsrätin)2018
Elected (served 2018-2020; entered as a substitute member, left upon election to the National Council)
Canton of St. Gallen (St. Gallen constituency)
Beruflicher Werdegang
Co-president (Co-Präsidentin)
18. Okt. 2025FDP.Die Liberalen Schweiz (national party)
Elected co-president of the national FDP together with Benjamin Mühlemann, succeeding Thierry Burkart; first co-presidency in the party's history.
President (Präsidentin)
2020 – 2025FDP.Die Liberalen Frauen Schweiz (FDP Women Switzerland)
Led the women's organisation of the FDP, succeeding Doris Fiala; drove the popular initiative for individual taxation.
Member of the National Council (Nationalrätin), FDP-Liberale Fraktion
2. Dez. 2019Federal Assembly of Switzerland
National Councillor for canton St. Gallen. Member of the Committee for the Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy (UREK-N), the Court Commission (Gerichtskommission), the Pardons Commission (Begnadigungskommission), deputy on the Immunity Commission, and member of the delegation for relations with the Liechtenstein parliament.
Ombudswoman for Age and Disability (Ombudsfrau Alter und Behinderung)
2013Canton of St. Gallen (since 2018 also Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Appenzell Innerrhoden)
Ombudswoman for the elderly and people with disabilities, initially for canton St. Gallen and from 2018 also for cantons AR and AI.
Vice-president of the appeals commission (Rekurskommission) and chair of the division for special-needs education professions
2008 – 2015EDK/GDK (Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education / of Health)
Vice-president of the joint appeals commission of the EDK and GDK; chaired the division for special-needs (heilpädagogische) professions.
Quelle:vincenz-stauffacher.chMember of the bar examination commission (Anwaltsprüfungskommission)
2003 – 2011Canton of St. Gallen
Member of the cantonal commission examining candidates for admission to the bar.
Quelle:vincenz-stauffacher.chLay/expert judge (Fachrichterin)
2003 – 2016Insurance Court (Versicherungsgericht) of the Canton of St. Gallen
Served as expert judge at the cantonal insurance court.
Self-employed attorney (Rechtsanwältin), own law firm
1993Law firm Vincenz, St. Gallen (formerly Vincenz & Dornier)
Founded her own law practice in St. Gallen; also serves as a notary public. Specialises notably in family law and works as a Collaborative Lawyer (SVCL, qualification completed 2013).
Legal trainee (Praktikum)
1991 – 1993Hofmann und Partner, Rapperswil
Legal traineeship preceding admission to the bar.
Quelle:vincenz-stauffacher.ch
Ausbildung
University of St. Gallen (HSG)
1990Licentiate in law (lic. iur.) · Law / Jurisprudence
Quelle:en.wikipedia.orgCanton of St. Gallen (bar admission)
1992Admission to the bar (Anwaltspatent) · Law
Quelle:en.wikipedia.orgSVCL (Swiss association for collaborative law)
2013Collaborative Lawyer SVCL · Collaborative law
Quelle:en.wikipedia.org
Wichtige Gesetze
Popular initiative for individual taxation (Volksinitiative 'Für eine zivilstandsunabhängige Individualbesteuerung' / 'Steuergerechtigkeits-Initiative')
Popular initiative2021
Launched by the FDP Women on 8 March 2021, the initiative requires that every person be taxed individually regardless of civil status, abolishing the so-called 'marriage penalty'. The committee submitted around 113,000 signatures. Vincenz-Stauffacher was the driving figure; the dossier (with an indirect counter-proposal) was treated by Parliament and a federal popular vote on individual taxation was set for 8 March 2026.