Career
Wetter was a secondary school teacher with a focus on mathematics and also studied to be a teacher of economics and business. From 1926 to 1934 and from 1929 he was a member of the Zurich Canton National Council.
Wetter was a secondary school teacher with a focus on mathematics and also studied to be a teacher of economics and business. From 1926 to 1934 and from 1929 he was a member of the Zurich Canton National Council.
Wetter’s main contribution is considered to be the "financial defense". He committed himself to a war funding program that would make Switzerland stronger by removing the unnecessary expenses, that have burdened the country before. Due to Wetter’s measures, Switzerland gained nearly three million francs in additional revenues or due to reduced spending, but by the end of the Second World War the national debt amounted to 8.5 million francs. Many of those new taxes, including military control tax and the Value Added Tax (otherwise known as VAT), remained after the war.
