Thomas Minder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Thomas Minder

Swiss politician and businessman

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1960

Place of Birth: Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Profession: politician

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Thomas Minder (born 26 December 1960 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland) is a Swiss entrepreneur and politician. He is known in Switzerland for having filed an initiative entitled "against rip-off salaries", created on 31 October 2006 and submitted on 26 February 2008, which proposed that the remuneration of executives in public Swiss companies be more tightly controlled by the shareholders.
The initiative, one of the world's most restrictive on corporate governance, was accepted by 67.9% of the population and all the cantons on 3 March 2013. Minder was elected to the Swiss Council of States for the canton of Schaffhausen in 2011.
He is an independent but sits with the Swiss People's Party. He is the initiator of a Federal law to better protect the concept of "Swissness".