Emil Friedrich Rimensberger

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Emil Friedrich Rimensberger (born March 9, 1894 in Bischofszell , † November 18, 1962 in Chamby ) was a Swiss trade union official , editor , social attaché and legation councilor .

Life

Rimensberger was born the son of a banker in Bischofszell, Switzerland . After a traineeship at the Bank of Alsace and Lorraine (1913 to 1915), he began his journalistic activities in 1915 for Neue Korrespondenz in Basel and Bern (until 1919). From 1921 to 1940 Rimensberger worked as an interpreter for the International Trade Union Confederation (IGB) in Amsterdam , Berlin and Paris .

Rimensberger worked from 1941 to 1947 as an editor for the trade union Rundschau and the voice of work, and from 1942 to 1946 as an employee of the newspaper Die Nation . In 1943 he was also a representative of the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB) the board of the nation . After the editor-in-chief of the Nation , Peter Surava, was dismissed in the following year , he took over the editing until 1946. In 1944 and 1945 Rimensberger also worked as a freelancer for the Federal Political Department on the preparation of exposés on foreign and trade union policy Switzerland in the post-war period . The planning of a Swiss information service for foreign countries also occupied him in 1945 and 1946.

From 1946 Rimensberger worked first as a press, then as a social attaché in Washington and was promoted to legation councilor in 1955 . In June 1957 he announced his resignation. In the same year he continued his journalistic activities and occasionally worked for Radio Beromünster (until 1959). Rimensberger died in Chamby ( Montreux municipality ) in 1962 . His estate is in the Archives for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich .

Fonts

  • Swiss return home. 1943 Zurich, published by the Gutenberg Book Guild .
  • Personal diaries with a volume of around 12,000 pages.

literature

  • Ursula Akmann-Bodenmann: The Swiss social attachés . A contribution to the history of the diplomatic service after the Second World War. Dissertation University of Zurich, Zurich 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christoph Manasse: Rimensberger, Emil Friedrich. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Documents by and about Rimensberger, Emil Friedrich in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ Rimensberger, Emil F. (PDF; 139 kB) Archive for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich , accessed on February 13, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Rimensberger, Emil Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rimensberger, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss trade union official, editor, social attaché and legation councilor
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bischofszell
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1962
Place of death Chamby