Ursula Koch – Ursula Koch participated at the first live stream broadcast from the Federal Palace of Switzerland ("Bundeshaus") in late 1999. Since 2000, she is no more charged in a political office, and in November 2000 Ursula Koch married her long-time life partner. Ursula Koch Ursula Koch (1 July 1941 in Zürich, citizen of Zürich) is a former Swiss politician, and was the first women president of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Born and raised in Zürich, Ursula Koch attended "Sekundarschule" in the municipality of Stäfa on "Zürichsee" lake shore. Thereafter she worked as a domestic helper in Lausanne,
Ursula Hegi Ursula Hegi Ursula Hegi (born May 23, 1946) is a German-born American writer. She is currently an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. She was born Ursula Koch in 1946 in Düsseldorf, Germany, a city that was heavily bombed during World War II. Her perception growing up was that the war was avoided as a topic of discussion despite its evidence everywhere, and The Holocaust was a particularly taboo topic. This had a strong effect on her later writing and her feelings about her German identity. She left West Germany in 1964, at the age of 18.