Jeanneret's death coincides with the 75th anniversary of Swiss Solidarity, which he had helped to make popular with numerous collections, Christian Lüscher, a longtime friend and former work colleague of Jeanneret, told the Keystone-SDA news agency. The Swiss media had therefore often referred to Jeanneret as "Mister Swiss Solidarity".

Jeanneret was born in Bern on March 18, 1947. He later studied German literature, journalism and theater studies at the university there.

He began his career at SRG as a presenter of "Children's News" on Swiss television. Later, he moved to radio, where he became best known as editor and presenter of the program "Rendez-vous". For years he headed this background program of today's SRF radio.

Jeanneret published several books and was a lecturer at the Swiss School of Journalism MAZ. He was married and lived in Bern. (SDA)

This was announced by Swiss Solidarity on Thursday, according to SDA. It will probably be more of a retirement, the Bernese is quoted in a media release. "And in the future, I would like to do more of what I feel like doing," the 63-year-old said. In the future, Jeanneret will take on a few more mandates for Swiss Solidarity.
 
The former radio journalist marked a key phase in Swiss Solidarity's development over the past 19 years, during which more than a billion Swiss francs in donations were collected. As early as summer 2009, Priska Spörri took over as Head of Communications and long-time employee Andreas Rüfenacht assumed the role of Delegate for German-speaking and Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland.
 
The radio program "Glückskette aktuell" on Swiss Radio DRS 1 will be realized by Ladina Spiess in the new year. The radio journalist is thus devoting part of her work entirely to reporting on the foundation.