Eugen Dietschi

This article describes the journalist and politician. His father of the same name, who was a printer and castle historian, is under Eugen Dietschi-Kunz .

Eugen Dietschi (1958)

Eugen Dietschi (born January 2, 1896 in Olten , † January 17, 1986 in Binningen , entitled to live in Lostorf , Olten and from 1933 in Basel ) was a Swiss journalist and politician ( FDP ).

biography

The son of the printer Eugen Dietschi-Kunz studied economics and history at the Universities of Zurich and Basel and received his doctorate in Basel in 1920. From 1921 to 1967 he was editor of the National-Zeitung .

From 1929 to 1968 he was represented as a radical democratic councilor in the parliament of the canton of Basel-Stadt , of which he was president in 1940. In 1941, he was in the National Council elected, where he had until 1960 a seat, where he 1958-59 National President was. In 1960 he was elected to the Council of States , he resigned in 1967. From 1954 to 1960 he was President of the FDP Switzerland .

In 1939 Dietschi submitted an urgent application to the Basel Great Council for the renovation of the military man monument on the Bruderholz plant. For the time being, however, there were no concrete plans. Then World War II came and the priorities went in other directions. It was not until 1955 that the town hall remembered the monument after an application by Otto Schönmann (1912–1970). A supplementary inscription for active service 1939–1945 was to be added, designed by the graphic artist Numa Rick (1902–1973).

In 1953/54 he was the central president of the Swiss Press Association. Dietschi was a well-known aviation pioneer. As a balloonist he co-founded the Basel airfield Sternenfeld in Birsfelden , as well as the Balair . In 1928 he was also involved in founding the Basel section of the Swiss Aero Club , which he also presided over until 1942. He was also culturally involved and was President of the Basel Orchestra Society from 1953 to 1974.

Eugen Dietschi is the father of the diplomat Peter Dietschi . In the Swiss Army he was a colonel in the anti-aircraft troops .

literature

• Eugen Dietschi , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 18/1986 of April 21, 1986, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

• Hermann Wichers : Dietschi, Eugen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Eugen Dietschi on the website of the Federal Assembly

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Stohler: Wehrmännerdenkmal 1925. Retrieved on August 6, 2019 . 
2. ↑ altbasel.ch: Restoration of the Wehrmännerdenkmal, 1939. Retrieved on August 6, 2019 .