Erwin Bishop

Erwin Bishop

Erwin Bischof (born October 16, 1940 in Zug ; † February 3, 2015 ) was a Swiss management consultant, politician ( FDP.The Liberals ) and publicist.

Life

Bischof completed a commercial apprenticeship in Zug from 1956 to 1959 and passed his Matura in 1963 . From 1963 to 1969 he studied modern history and German at the universities of Bern , Bonn and Geneva . In 1969 he received his doctorate in philosophy with a dissertation on Rhenish separatism .

From 1969 to 1970 Bishop was assistant to Walther Hofer at the Historical Institute in Bern. He then served as a diplomat in Bern , Warsaw and Geneva until 1980 . From 1973 to 1975, Bishop was Deputy Executive Secretary of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in Geneva and Helsinki . From 1975 to 1980 he worked as a press spokesman in the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Ministry) in Bern.

Since 1980, Bischof has been an independent management consultant in the areas of public relations and political communication; He was also a co-founder of the free weekly newspaper Bernerbär in 1984 . From 1984 to 1986 he was municipal councilor of Bolligen and from 1986 to 1991 a member of the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern . In 1993, Bischof founded the "interforum" association, which organizes symposiums and seminars for business circles throughout Switzerland. Mikhail Gorbachev took part in the opening event in Bern .

Bishop was married, had two grown sons and was a citizen of Eggersriet .

Fonts

• Rhenish separatism 1918–1924. Hans Adam Dorten's efforts towards the Rhine state. Lang, Bern 1969.
• Honecker's handshake. Relations between Switzerland and the GDR 1960–1990: Democracy or dictatorship. With contributions by Elisabeth Kopp , Emil Steinberger and Peter and Christa Gross-Feurich . Interforum, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-0330233-8-3 .
• Traitors and failures. How Stasi spies infiltrated Switzerland during the Cold War. Interforum, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-9524099-1-6 .
• Thomas Mann and Rotary. How the German poet fought against the barbarism of National Socialism. Interforum, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-9524099-0-9 .

literature

• Abendland , No. 280 March 2013, page 3.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historian, publicist and politician Erwin Bischof dies ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2015 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.  

Web links

• Urs Tremp: Fighter in the Cold War. Obituary in: NZZ on Sunday 15 February 2015
• www.bischof.ch in the web archive ( Memento from March 15, 2016 in the Internet archive )