Marieke Kruit

BurmistrzMayor of Bern (Stadtpräsidentin)

SP (Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz / Social Democratic Party) · Szwajcaria

Język profilu: angielski

Marieke Kruit (born 1968 in Ilanz, Canton Graubünden) is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party (SP). Since 1 January 2025 she has served as Stadtpräsidentin (mayor) of Bern, the city's first female mayor. She grew up as the daughter of Dutch immigrants in Turbach near Gstaad and was naturalised at the age of twelve. After a commercial apprenticeship she worked as a radio and television journalist, then studied psychology at the University of Bern (lic. phil.) and trained as a psychotherapist. She led the day clinic of the Psychiatric Services Thun from 2011 to 2016 and co-headed the psychiatric outpatient clinics of the Spital Region Oberaargau until her election to the city executive. She sat on the Bern city parliament (Stadtrat) from 2013 to 2020 and joined the city executive (Gemeinderat) in 2021 as director of the Department for Civil Engineering, Transport and Urban Greenery (Direktion fuer Tiefbau, Verkehr und Stadtgruen). She was elected mayor in November 2024 after the other candidates withdrew, taking office on 1 January 2025. She has been president of the tenants' association (Mieterinnen- und Mieterverband) of the Canton of Bern. She is married to communications consultant Peter Lauener and lives in Bern.