SRG.R: Oscar Knapp becomes new President
The future president of the regional association SRG.R is Oscar Knapp. He will succeed Duri Bezzola in January 2013.
The candidate proposed by the regional board, Franco Tramèr, failed. He only received 35 votes. Oscar Knapp was elected with 56 votes at the SRG.R General Assembly in Scuol on Saturday, as reported by SRG.R according to SDA.
Oscar Knapp is an economist and has represented Switzerland as an ambassador in various countries, most recently in Austria and Brazil. Today he is a member of the Directorate of the State Secretariat for International Financial Matters SIF. As Chairman of the Regional Company, he will also be a member of the Board of Directors of SRG.
SRG.R Price
SRG.R already awarded the SRG.R Prize on Friday. This goes to the Graubünden
Extreme sportsman Ernst Bromeis. Bromeis wanted to swim the Rhine from its source to its mouth in Rotterdam at the beginning of May, but had to give up two weeks after starting. Bromeis made it as far as Breisach in southern Baden, but had already covered several sections by kayak beforehand. The plan to swim across the Rhine was part of an advertising campaign by Switzerland Tourism.
