The scary patriots

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The uncanny patriots is a book from 1979 that lists over 1000 Swiss people and their right-wing to right-wing extremist classifications and activities. The controversially discussed book also became a legal case up to the Swiss Federal Supreme Court . The authors of the book are Jürg Frischknecht , Peter Haffner , Ueli Haldimann and Peter Niggli .

content

With its wealth of material, the book was considered a classic in the representation of the right-wing scene and its interdependencies in Switzerland. In it, the authors considered in particular the Hitler-friendly attitude of Swiss business and academic circles in the 1930s and 1940s.

effect

The book made political waves and had consequences for those affected. For example, pastor Gerd Zikeli lost his job at the Evangelical Reformed parish of Straubenzell St. Gallen West because of his neo-Nazi activities documented in the book , which also resulted in a legal review up to the Swiss Federal Court. The National Councilor Robert Eibel also tried unsuccessfully before the federal court.

The eerie patriots were cited by right-wing circles as evidence that the political left in Switzerland also led fiche over Swiss. The book was used as a source for various personal articles in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland , for example on Peter Dürrenmatt , Robert Eibel, Rudolf Farner , Jean-Jacques Hegg , Ernst Mörgeli , Ernst Cincera and Andreas Sprecher von Bernegg .

Editions of the book

All editions of the book were published by Limmat-Verlag , Zurich.

  • The first edition of the book from 1979 with the ironic subtitle "a current manual" comprised 512 pages. ISBN 3857910186 .
  • In 1984 an 800-page supplement was published, ISBN 385791078X .
  • After five editions a "no longer censored" edition with 794 pages was published, ISBN 3857910771 .

In 1998, Peter Niggli and Jürg Frischknecht published a book about the book entitled Rechts Seilschaften: How the “Scary Patriots” mastered the collapse of communism . ISBN 9783858691651 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From “weird patriots” to “right-wing clans”. ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Basler Zeitung , October 1998, quoted at antifa.ch , accessed on January 9, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.antifa.ch
  2. ↑ Peter Nowak : The foreseeable rise of Mr. Blocher. In: Jungle World , 46/1990.
  3. ↑ neonativity.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Short article about the voting out of Gerd Zikeli on the website of the Evangelical Reformed Church Community Straubenzell, accessed on January 3, 2013.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.straubenzell.ch  
  4. ↑ 44. Excerpt from the judgment of the 2nd Civil Department of May 2, 1985 in the context of Frischknecht and participants against Eibel (appeal) to a court case relating to the book The Unheimlichen Patrioten at the Swiss Federal Court.
  5. ↑ Peter Studer : Who has a «right to be forgotten»? (PDF; 2.6 MB) ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: MEMORIAV Bulletin, No. 15 9/2008, pp. 21-22. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fr.memoriav.ch
  6. ↑ Fichen scandal: how about the Fichierung from the left? ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Erwin Bischof's blog entry on July 16, 2010, accessed on January 3, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bischof.ch
  7. ^ Regula Ludi: Peter Dürrenmatt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 18, 2010 , accessed June 7, 2019 .
  8. ^ Ulrich Stauffacher: Robert Eibel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 27, 2004 , accessed June 7, 2019 .
  9. ^ Markus Bürgi: Rudolf Farner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 5, 2004 , accessed June 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Thomas Huonker: Jean-Jacques Hegg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 29, 2007 , accessed June 7, 2019 .
  11. ^ Roger Sidler: Ernst Mörgeli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 24, 2007 , accessed June 7, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Andrea Weibel: Ernst Cincera. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 13, 2012 , accessed June 7, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Adolf Collenberg: Andreas speaker from Bernegg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 11, 2012 , accessed June 7, 2019 .