Albert Oeri

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Jakob Albert Oeri (born September 21, 1875 in Schaffhausen ; † December 22, 1950 in Riehen ) was a Swiss historian , journalist , publicist and politician .

Life

Albert Oeri, son of the high school teacher Johann Jakob Oeri, attended schools in Basel and then studied Classical Philology and History in Basel , Göttingen and Berlin . During his student days he joined the Swiss Zofingerverein . In 1899 he received his doctorate from the University of Basel. phil., 1900-1901 he worked as a high school teacher in Gotha . After his return to Basel in 1901 he was an editor for the Allgemeine Schweizer Zeitung and after 1902 for the Basler Nachrichten , in which the Allgemeine Schweizer Zeitung went up. 1902–1911 he headed the domestic and 1911–1925 the foreign editorial team. 1925-1949 he worked as editor-in-chief.

Albert Oeri was also politically active. As a member of the Liberals, he sat in the Grand Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt from 1908 to 1948 ; 1931-1949 he took a seat in the National Council and in 1947 was its age-old president .

After Hitler came to power in Germany, Oeri turned against National Socialism as a journalist and politician and became one of the most important exponents of intellectual national defense and a co-founder of the National Resistance Campaign . He advocated the admission of refugees and the maintenance of freedom of the press . He was therefore also one of the editors-in-chief, for whose elimination in 1940 the entry of the two hundred requested the Federal Council. Albert Oeri was also a member of the Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt commission and president of the Basler Kunstverein .

In 1945 the universities of Bern and Basel awarded him honorary doctorates . A street in Riehen is named after Albert Oeri.

Works

  • De Herodoti fonte Delphico. Basel 1899 (dissertation).
  • The general auditor Jakob Christoph Rolle. Basel 1905 (2nd edition 1936).
  • When should Switzerland join the League of Nations? Basel 1920.
  • Wettstein and Riehen. Festival for the four hundredth anniversary of the unification of Riehen and Basel. Basel 1923.
  • Old front. With a foreword by Emil Dürr . Basel 1933.
  • Problems of accountability. Lecture. Basel 1936.
  • Oeri daily reports. Bern 1946.
  • Concern for Europe. From Versailles to Potsdam 1919–1945. Foreign policy comments. Selected and ed. by Julia Gauss . Basel 1977.
  • Daily reports 1932 to 1945. Published in the Basler Nachrichten. Basel 1999.

literature

  • Edgar Bonjour :  Oeri, Albert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 447 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Udo Fink: Albert Oeri as a publicist and politician between the two world wars. A contribution to the latest Swiss history. Dissertation Zurich 1971.
  • Julia Gauss : Albert Oeri's critical observations on European politics of his time. On the 100th birthday of Albert Oeri, editor-in-chief of Basler Nachrichten, Sept. 21, 1975. Basel 1975.
  • Stefan Hess : From the crisis mood to the festive frenzy. The «Four Centennial Celebration of the Unification of Riehen and Basel» in 1923. Licentiate thesis, University of Basel, 1995.
  • René Teuteberg et al .: Albert Oeri 1875 to 1950. Journalist and politician by calling. Basel 2002.
  • Felix Wassermann: Jacob Burckhardt's great-nephew as a student of classical philology in Göttingen. A letter from Albert Oeris to Burckhardt from 1896. In: Antike und Abendland. Vol. 15 (1968), H. 1, pp. 75-80.
  • Albert Oeri commemorative publication on September 21, 1945. Basel 1945.
  • Albert Oeri , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 02/1951 from January 1, 1951, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  • In memory of Albert Oeri (sound). University public library, Basel 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Oeri: Daily reports 1932 to 1945, published in the Basler Nachrichten . GS-Verlag, Basel 1999, ISBN 3-7185-0175-9 , p. 28.
  2. ↑ Jean-Jacques Lüscher (1884–1955): group picture, meeting of the Basel Art Credit Commission, 1930. Retrieved October 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ In this function he was e.g. B. Vice-President of the OC at the anniversary exhibition for Arnold Böcklin in 1927.
personal data
SURNAME Oeri, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oeri, Jakob Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian, journalist, publicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1950
Place of death Riehen