Alfred Cattani

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Alfred Cattani (born April 30, 1923 in Zurich ; † December 20, 2009 there ; entitled to live in Bironico ) was a Swiss journalist and historian .

biography

Cattani grew up in Seefeld in Zurich . After the teacher training college, he took a degree in history at the University of Zurich and in 1950 with a dissertation on Switzerland in the political thinking of Mazzini doctorate . During his studies, he was already doing aid missions in a shattered Germany , was a volunteer with the Swiss arts section and tutor on an estate in Denmark . He then worked as an editor at the Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich , where he summarized daily events abroad, in Switzerland and in Zürich on one page, thereby training himself intensively in the journalistic trade.

From 1957 he was in Bonn Germany - correspondent for Radio Beromünster and the Tages-Anzeiger . In 1960 he joined the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as a service editor in the international section and was deputy correspondent in Paris , Moscow , the GDR and the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . From 1969 he was coordinator, from 1979 also head of the Zurich department, from the 1980s until his retirement at the end of 1989 he was also deputy editor-in-chief .

From 1976 to 1989 he was a member of the board of directors of the Swiss Dispatch Agency (from 1981 member of the committee).

Works (selection)

  • Switzerland in Mazzini's political thinking. Report house, Zurich 1951 (cf. Diss. Univ. Zurich 1950).
  • The Zurich reporting house. A cultural image in the mirror of the Thursday news 1730–1754. Report house, Zurich 1956.
  • Zurich tax collection 1357. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. March 23, 1957.
  • Light and shadow. 150 years of history of the Zurich canton police. Zurich canton police, Zurich 1958.
  • Israel, one year after the Six Day War (= NZZ-Schriften currently. Volume 8). Book publisher Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1968.
  • Zurich around 1780. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 12./13. January 1980.
  • A political death sentence in old Zurich. The execution of Pastor Johann Heinrich Waser. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 24./25. May 1980, p. 49.
  • with Rainer Diederichs, Dolf Kaiser: Zeit und Zeitung. 200 years of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Zurich Central Library, Zurich 1980.
  • Minorities in Switzerland. Tolerance on the test bench. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1984.
  • Zurich in World War II. Six years between fear and hope. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1989.
  • Albert Meyer . Editor-in-chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from 1915 to 1930. Federal Councilor from 1930 to 1938 (= personality and newspaper. Vol. V). Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1992.
  • Triumph and tragedy on the Gotthard. Alfred Escher's boldest enterprise. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. February 17, 1994, sheet 2.
  • Hitler's shadow over Europe. NZZ-Buchverlag, Zurich 1995.
  • Paul Usteri, 1768-1831. His fight for press freedom. Kranich, Zollikon 1997.
  • The Swiss railways for the Swiss people. The hotly contested creation of the SBB. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. June 16, 1997 (special supplement).
  • Shadow of World War II. Nazi gold and Shoah money, victims as prosecutors. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1997.
  • Swiss refugee policy 1933–1945 (= Pro Libertate series, no. 12). Swiss Association Pro Libertate, 1999.
  • The Rordorf family. A family saga. 650 years of being a citizen of the city. Regio-Familienforscher, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1999, pp. 183-186.
  • Hermann Hesse and his Zurich friends. 2002.
  • A revolutionary in conflict. In: Küsnachter annual magazine. 46th vol., 2006, pp. 33-42.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Bütler : Historian and newspaper man. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . December 24, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Cattani, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2009
Place of death Zurich