Eduard Zellweger

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Eduard Zellweger (born December 29, 1901 in Luino ; † July 8, 1975 in Zurich , reformed , resident in Zurich and Trogen ) was a Swiss lawyer , lawyer , politician (SP) and diplomat .

Life

Eduard Zellweger was born on December 29, 1901 in Luino as the son of the border guard chief Leopold Zellweger. Zellweger, who spent his childhood in Lugano and Chur , first attended grammar schools in Chur and Bern , before he began studying law at the universities of Geneva and Bern in 1920 , which he obtained in 1924 with the academic degree of Dr. iur. completed.

Subsequently, he completed his first professional position until 1929 as head of the Swiss Abroad Secretariat of the New Helvetic Society. He then worked as a lawyer in Zurich from 1930 to 1945, 1950 to 1955 and from 1963. In addition, he was judge of cassation from 1940 to 1945, then as envoy to Yugoslavia until 1949 , from 1956 to 1959 as constitutional advisor to the royal government of Libya , from 1960 to 1961 as personal representative of the UN Secretary-General in Laos and from 1962 to 1963 employed as legal advisor in Kenya . He also taught from 1950 to 1962 as a private lecturer in international law at the University of Zurich . He also acted as co-founder and foreign policy editor of the nation in 1933 and as president of the Neue Schauspielhaus AG from 1967 to 1972 .

Eduard Zellweger was one of the co-founders of the Young Liberal Movement, from which he was excluded in 1935. In 1939 he joined the Social Democratic Party, which he represented in the National Council from 1943 to 1945 and 1955 to 1956 and in the Council of States from 1963 to 1967 .

In 1945 Eduard Zellweger married Margrit, the daughter of the draftsman at SBB Johann Joseph Lustenberger. He died on July 8, 1975 at the age of 73 in Zurich.

Act

Eduard Zellweger appeared as a staunch opponent of the fronts and of National Socialism . He supported the crisis initiative and the guideline movement and defended victims of the Nazi regime and the frontists in political trials , such as the kidnapped journalist Berthold Jacob and Swiss communists. Zellweger was one of the first two social democratic envoys. In Belgrade in 1946 he reestablished the diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union , which had been interrupted since 1923 . In politics he was particularly involved in foreign policy issues. Zellweger was a specialist in international and press law as well as constitutional law in the countries of Eastern Europe.

Works (selection)

  • The right of Switzerland to reparation for war damage, 1929
  • War burdens and war damage: Comments on the expert opinion prepared by Federal Judges Merz and Fazy on the reparation of Swiss war damage, 1932
  • The State's Responsibility for the Press under International Law: With Special Consideration of Swiss Practice, 1949

See also

literature

  • Tages-Anzeiger from 9./10. July 1975
  • Zürichsee-Zeitung of July 10, 1975
  • Jost Nikolaus Willi: The Jacob - Wesemann case (1935/1936): A contribution to the history of Switzerland in the interwar period , Frankfurt 1972
  • Fritz Heberlein: Zeitgenossen, Zurich 1974, pp. 184–189

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personal data
SURNAME Zellweger, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer, lawyer, politician (SP) and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Luino
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1975
Place of death Zurich