Ernst Schürch

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Ernst Schürch (born June 3, 1875 in Grosshöchstetten ; † January 26, 1960 in Bern ; legal resident in Rohrbach ) was a Swiss journalist . Schürch was best known as the long - time editor -in- chief of the Bern daily newspaper Der Bund and through his uncompromising attitude towards the Third Reich .

Life

Schürch was born into the farming family of Johannes Schürch and Elisabeth, born Ellenberger. He graduated from schools in Burgdorf with a high school diploma and then began studying history and linguistics in Bern and Lausanne . He then worked as a private tutor in England and as a teacher at the Trogen Cantonal School and then completed a second degree in law , after which he obtained the advocacy certificate in 1906 .

In 1906 he became president of the court in Wangen a. A. , from 1908 to 1911 he was public prosecutor for the Bernese Seeland in Biel and from 1911 to 1912 for the Bernese Mittelland in Bern. In 1912 he joined the editorial office of the Bund and was its editor-in-chief from 1925 until his retirement in September 1941 . As a member of the FDP from 1914 to 1918 and 1922 to 1933, he was Bern's Grand Councilor and from 1920 to 1925 Bern City Council (both legislative branches ). In 1944 the University of Bern honored him with the title of Dr. H. c.

During the Second World War , the German press attaché in Switzerland, Georg Trump, tried from July 9, 1940 on the publishers of the daily newspapers Der Bund , Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Basler Nachrichten , which were already banned in Germany , to get their editors-in-chief Ernst Schürch, Willy , who were clearly critical of Germany Bretscher and Albert Oeri were deposed. However, with little success: Bretscher and Oeri remained in office; Schürch was advised to resign by the Bund publisher Fritz Pochon, but he stayed in his post until he retired the following year. The request to discipline the editors-in-chief was also represented by the signatories of the entry of the two hundred .

Schürch represented a social liberalism and was instrumental in rebuilding the Bernese liberalism after the crisis from 1919 to 1922. He also campaigned for the promotion of dialect.

Private

Schürch was married to Vera Evelina Pozzy since 1906. One of her three sons was the FDP politician Gerhart Schürch (1910-1994), the Bern city, large and council and 1971-1979 National Council was and in 1940 as a colonel and General Staff Officer of the so-called " officer conspiracy for unconditional resistance belonged." The other two sons were named Werner and Hans Ulrich.

Works

  • Twelve questions about the League of Nations. Pochon-Jent & Bühler, Bern 1919.
  • From the new World. With the Swiss press mission in America. A. Francke, Bern 1919.
  • From a young republic. Impressions from a trip to Czechoslovakia. Pochon-Jent & Bühler, Bern 1920.
  • Canada. Light and shadow images. Pochon-Jent & Bühler, Bern 1923.
  • Socialism in theory and practice (= writings of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland; No. 13). Pochon-Jent, Bern 1928.
  • Problems and dangers in our democracy (= writings of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland; No. 21). Pochon-Jent, Bern 1930.
  • The Bernese compulsory correction from the standpoint of the press (= reprint from: Journal of the Bernischer Juristen-Verein ). Bern 1933.
  • Freedom and the fronts. After the presentation of May 13, 1933 before the central executive committee of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland in Olten (= writings of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland; No. 25). Pochon-Jent, Bern 1933.
  • Hitler Germany and we German Swiss. Confederation, Bern 1934.
  • Jakob Schaffner's homeland show. Pochon-Jent, Bern 1938.
  • Comments on the day. Haupt, Bern 1941.
  • A child travels into the world (= Gute Schriften. Vol. 204). Good writings, Bern 1942.
  • Linguistic memories. Haupt, Bern 1943.
  • Have a worry about the Schwyzerdütsch. A. Francke, Bern 1944.
  • When freedom was in question. Memories from the storm time of the Swiss press. Lang, Bern 1946.
  • From the Swiss maze. In: Neue Schweizer Rundschau. Vol. 14, H. 10, 1946, pp. 587-603.
  • Wolf without space. From German refugee camps. Bund, Bern 1949.
  • Paul Georg Kasser, 1876–1945. s. l. e. a. (after 1945).
  • Shaping along the way of life (= Gute Schriften. Vol. 91). Good writings, Bern 1949.
  • Johann Hirters public work. In: Hans Hirter: Johann Daniel Hirter, 1855–1926. Bern 1955.

literature

  • Dr. hc Ernst Schürch. In: Deutschschweizerischer Sprachverein: Sprachspiegel. Vol. 11, No. 4, 1955, p. 97.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alfred Cattani : Threatened Switzerland in July 1940. To a book about "Aktion Trump". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. December 23, 1972, p. 9.
  2. ↑ Dr. hc Ernst Schürch †. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . January 26, 1960, evening edition, p. 9 (obituary).
  3. ^ Georg Kreis : July 1940. The Trump action. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1973, ISBN 3-7190-0618-2 .
  4. ↑ Andreas Tobler: Why a Trump was expelled from Switzerland. In: Tages-Anzeiger . 22nd March 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Schürch, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Grosshöchstetten
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1960
Place of death Bern