Arthur Frey (politician)

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Arthur Frey (born August 19, 1897 in Winterberg , Lindau ; † November 7, 1955 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss politician.

Life

Arthur Frey was the son of the primary school teacher Rudolf Frey, who came from a peasant family and died early, so that Arthur Frey lacked the financial means to study theology.

He attended commercial college in La Neuveville and enrolled at the University of Zurich to economics to study; He finished his studies in 1922 with his habilitation The Swiss meat price policy during the World War 1914–1918 .

As a member of the Thurgau Democratic Party , he became editor of the Thurgauer Tagblatt in Weinfelden in 1922 . In 1931 he started working for the Swiss Evangelical Press Service in Zurich , of which he was director from 1933 to 1955. From 1941 he was chairman of the board of directors of the Evangelische Buchhandlung Zollikon.

Arthur Frey had been married to Martha (née Maag) since 1924, and they had five children together, whose names are known:

  • Rudolf Frey;
  • Huldrych Walter Frey.

Church political activity

Arthur Frey was involved at the interface between church and politics and sat from 1943 to 1955 in the Evangelical Reformed Church Synod of the Canton of Zurich and from 1947 to 1955 in the Cantonal Council . He was shaped by the community principle of Huldrych Zwingli and Karl Barth, with whom he was close friends and who taught the relationship between church and state, but at the same time maintaining the freedom of church proclamation. By intensively-developed by Karl Barth's publications, he continued his self-taught for theologians . He was also shaped by his close friendship with the pastor Gottlob Wieser (1888–1973).

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he pointed out the exemplary importance of the church struggle taking place in Germany . His brochure The Right State , in which he rejected the Nazi state as an injustice regime, was banned by the Swiss censors on August 28, 1941 because he was not prepared to eradicate the concrete references to foreign power on pages 37-40 , although Alphons Koechlin , President of the Federation of Swiss Evangelical Churches, advocated publication.

Arthur Frey represented a pronounced anti-Catholicism , his brochures Catholicism in the Attack of 1948 and Jesuit Morality and Jesuit Orders in the Judgment of the Popes of 1955 were particularly polemical .

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Swiss meat price policy during the World War 1914–1918 . 1922.
  • The struggle of the Evangelical Church in Germany . Zollikon: Verlag der Evangelische Buchhandlung, 1937.
  • The right state . Zollikon-Zurich: Evangelischer Verlag, 1941.
  • Active Protestantism . Zollikon 1943.
  • Adolf Landolt ; Arthur Frey: Political Catholicism in Switzerland . Zollikon 1945.
  • Catholicism on the attack . Zollikon 1948.
  • Albert Bereczky; Arthur Frey: The Hungarian Christianity in the new Hungarian state . Zollikon-Zurich: Evangelischer Verlag AG, 1948.
  • Max Fischer; Arthur Frey: Contemporary reflections on the Jesuit question . Zollikon / Zurich: Evangelischer Verlag AG., 1953.
  • Jesuit Morality and the Jesuit Order in the Judgment of the Popes . Zurich 1955.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Jehle: From Johannes auf Patmos to Karl Barth: Theological works from two decades . Theological Publishing House Zurich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-290-17832-1 , p. 135 f . ( google.de [accessed on December 13, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Wieser, thank God. Retrieved December 13, 2019 .
  3. ^ Victor Conzemius , Martin Greschat , Hermann Kocher: The time after 1945 as a topic of contemporary church history: Papers at the international conference in Hünigen / Bern (Switzerland) 1985: with a bibliography by Andreas Lindt . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988, ISBN 978-3-525-55409-8 , pp. 66 ( google.de [accessed December 13, 2019]).
  4. ↑ HB: What is the German church struggle about? In : The Bern Week in Words and Pictures , Vol. 27, 1937, Part 1 . Part 2.
  5. ^ Eberhard Busch : The Karl Barth Files: Censorship and Surveillance in the Name of Swiss Neutrality 1938-1945 . S. 445. Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-290-17458-3 ( google.de [accessed on December 13, 2019]).
  6. ^ Eberhard Busch: The Karl Barth Files: Censorship and Surveillance in the Name of Swiss Neutrality 1938-1945 . S. 204. Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-290-17458-3 ( google.de [accessed on December 13, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Christiane Tietz : Karl Barth: A life in contradiction, chapter church struggle and refugee aid . CH Beck, 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72524-1 ( google.de [accessed December 13, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Frey, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterberg , Lindau
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1955
Place of death Zollikon