Benedict Pfister
Benedikt ("Beni") Samuel Pfister (born September 3, 1978 ) is a Swiss historian .
Life
The son of theologian Xaver Pfister studied history, Swiss history and media studies at the University of Basel and Munich . After completing his licentiate degree at the University of Basel in 2005, he worked as a freelance historian, including the author of anniversary publications for the Basel-Stadt trade association and the Basel and Metal Union. Today he works in a project agency and is public relations officer for the Swiss Red Cross in Basel. In this position, he was the project manager and co-author of the book “The Basler and the Red Cross - 125 Years of the SRK Basel” in 2013 . Pfister also wrote publications on the history of the Mammut Sports Group , ice hockey in Switzerland and the history of the Catholics in Basel in the 20th century. He is on the board of “JuAr Basel” (formerly Basler Freizeitaktion BFA ), the most important organization in Basel's youth work .
In 2014 he co-founded the Basel sports bar "Didi Offensiv", which he has been running as a partner ever since.
Fonts (selection)
- Defying the Nazis: The Ulm high school graduates under National Socialism , Saarbrücken: VDM , 2008, ISBN 978-3-639-09654-5 (revised master's thesis).
- Anniversary publication 175 years of the Basel-Stadt trade association , Basel: Basel-Stadt trade association, 2009.
- Metallunion Basel and the surrounding area - successful together. Typical metal construction: solid, elegant, innovative for 125 years , Basel 2011.
- Author of the historical introduction: 150 years stories , ed. from Mammut Sports Group AG, Zurich: AS Verlag , 2011, ISBN 978-3-909111-87-9 .
- Project manager and co-author: The Basler and the Red Cross. 125 SRK , Basel: Swiss Red Cross Basel-Stadt, 2013, ISBN 978-3-033-03875-2 .
- The Catholics discover Basel. The way out of the milieu into society , Basel: Christoph-Merian-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-85616-617-5 .
- with Thomas Brückner: How much Switzerland is there in the symbol of the Red Cross? A search for traces, in: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde 115 (2015), pp. 193–206.
Web links
- Publications by and about Benedikt Pfister in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Benedikt Pfister in the catalog of the German National Library
- Benedikt Pfister on the website of the Swiss Red Cross Basel
- Benedikt Pfister on the website of Christoph Merian Verlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.xaverpfister.ch .
- ↑ didioffensiv | Family business. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ The book is one of five reading recommendations by the Religion editorial team of Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), selected from the new publications of 2014 ( online , accessed on April 30, 2014).
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SURNAME | Pfister, Benedict |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pfister, Benedikt Samuel (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd September 1978 |