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Vice president of the Swiss Confederation (2009–2009); Vice president of the Swiss Confederation (2008–2008); Member of the Swiss Federal Council (2004–2010); Member of the Swiss Council of States (1997–2003)."},{"q":"Where did Hans-Rudolf Merz study?","a":"Hans-Rudolf Merz was educated at University of St. Gallen."}],"related":[{"name":"Adolf Deucher","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adolf-deucher"},{"name":"Adrien Lachenal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/adrien-lachenal"},{"name":"Johann Schneider-Ammann","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/johann-schneider-ammann"},{"name":"Jonas Furrer","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/jonas-furrer"},{"name":"Philipp Etter","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/philipp-etter"},{"name":"Johann Jakob Scherer","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/johann-jakob-scherer"},{"name":"Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/eveline-widmer-schlumpf"},{"name":"Kaspar Villiger","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/kaspar-villiger"},{"name":"Moritz Leuenberger","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/moritz-leuenberger"},{"name":"Pascal Couchepin","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pascal-couchepin"},{"name":"Doris Leuthard","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/doris-leuthard"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/hans-rudolf-merz-7b37be655b.jpg","width":500,"height":666,"license":"Attribution","credit":"Swiss Federal Council","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans-Rudolf_Merz_-_2008.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Hans-Rudolf Merz","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Rudolf_Merz","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q122275","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122275","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Hans-Rudolf Merz - 2008.jpg by Swiss Federal Council (Attribution)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans-Rudolf_Merz_-_2008.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Hans-Rudolf Merz, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. 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