Hermann Böschenstein
Hermann Böschenstein (born May 29, 1905 in Bern , † September 23, 1997 ibid) was a Swiss journalist .
Böschenstein studied law at the Universities of Bern and Paris and obtained the advocacy patent for the Canton of Bern in 1929 . From 1925 to 1930 he worked as a parliamentary reporter for the Neue Berner Zeitung . From 1930 to 1933 he was editor of the Swiss medium press . From 1933 to 1935 he was with the Swiss Free Press .
From 1935 to 1937 he was the Berlin correspondent for the Basler Nachrichten . He was expelled by the Nazis for reporting critical of the regime. From 1939 to 1950 he was the federal editor of the National-Zeitung . In an article published on August 24, 1942 with the title "Does Switzerland tolerate this practice?" he criticized the expulsion of a Jewish couple from Belgium and was one of the first to criticize the Swiss refugee policy as a whole. This article sparked a debate and ultimately led to a moderation in the handling of evictions. The journalist Alfred A. Häsler later placed this story at the beginning of his book Das Boot ist voll .
From 1951 to 1953 he was the Bundestag editor for Weltwoche . From 1953 to 1954 he worked for Ringier in London . From 1955 to 1974 he was an editor and employee of various newspapers in Bern, including the federal government and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .
In 1972 Böschenstein received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern.
He wrote several biographies of Swiss federal councilors.
He was the father of the Germanist Bernhard Böschenstein .
Works (selection)
- Federal Councilor Carl Schenk : An image of the life of man and politician in his time. A. Züst, Bümpliz 1946
- Jakob Stämpfli's last years of life. Herbert Lang, Bern 1951
- Threatened homeland: Switzerland in the Second World War. Contributions u. a. Alfred Ernst , Ernst Bircher. Main, 2nd rev. Bern 1965 edition (1st edition 1963)
- Federal Councilor Schulthess : War and crises. Haupt, Bern 1966
- Before our eyes: records of the decade 1935-1945. Stämpfli, Bern 1978
- Federal Councilor Obrecht , 1882-1940. Vogt-Schild, Solothurn 1981
- Eduard Will (1854-1927): pioneer of the electricity industry, founder of Bernische Kraftwerke AG, national councilor and supreme corps commander. Association for Economic History Studies, Zurich 1981 (Swiss pioneers in business and technology, 34)
- Between diplomacy and society. The Swiss envoy in the Weimar Republic (1922-1932) Hermann Rüfenacht . Stämpfli, Bern 1992
Web links
- Roger Blum : Böschenstein, Hermann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Hermann Böschenstein in the archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives
- Publications by and about Hermann Böschenstein (1905–1997) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Hermann Böschenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ No place in this boat . In: derbund.ch/ . ( derbund.ch [accessed on August 10, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böschenstein, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 23, 1997 |
| Place of death | Bern |