Friedrich Salzmann

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Friedrich Salzmann (born August 31, 1915 in Hamadan , Iran ; † November 29, 1990 in Bern ) was a Swiss radio presenter , author and politician ( LdU ).

Life

Salzmann was the son of the export merchant Walter Salzmann and his wife Charlotte, nee. Haase. At the age of three he suffered from so-called polio , as a result of which he had to rely on greaves and crutches for his entire life. In his childhood and youth he attended schools in Berlin , Montreux , Zurich and Paris . He then completed a commercial apprenticeship in Zurich. In 1937, Salzmann became a newspaper correspondent in Paris. He took part in the 1939 World's Fair as a representative of the anti-fascist youth associations in Switzerland. In 1939 he returned to Switzerland, where he then worked as a federal civil servant.

In 1943 Salzmann found a job as an employee of the weekly newspaper Freies Volk , which was committed to the theories of the natural economic order of Silvio Gesell . He was one of the founders of the Liberal Socialist Party , which emerged in 1946 from a split in the Swiss Free Land Free Money Federation and in which he and Werner Schmid held a leading position. In 1957 he became head of the department for domestic politics and economics at the Swiss radio DRS . He gained fame through his liberal and cosmopolitan series With Critical Stylus .

From 1971 to 1978, Salzmann was the Bernese National Councilor for the National Ring of Independents .

Awards

Fonts

  • Silvio Gesell, Friedrich Salzmann: To the survivors. Silvio Gesell's thoughts. Verlag Freiwirtschaftlicher Schriften, 1945
  • The German educational experiment. Pestalozzi Fellenberg House, Bern 1946
  • Citizens for the Laws: Representation of the educating state . Free People's Publishing Cooperative, Bern 1949.
  • Does the "free economy" have to fail because of human nature? Vita Verlag, Bad Nauheim, Berlin, Bern 1953
  • Beyond the politics of interests . Cooperative publishing house free-trade writings, Bern 1953
  • Adventure in Persia. Viernheim publishing house, 1956
  • Our future between East and West , presentation. Austrian Free Economic Union, Linz 1956
  • For a less cheap anti-communism , radio lecture, Viktoria-Verlag, Bern 1960
  • Friedrich Salzmann, Max Weber, Max Wullschleger: Active Democracy, three lectures held at the University of Basel , on the 9th, 16th and 16th. November 23, 1960. Viktoria-Verlag, Bern 1961
  • Social Justice as an Answer to Communism: On the Threshold of a New Millennium . Pallas-Verlag, Bern 1962
  • Small state - what now? : Federal Future between East and West , Verlag Haupt, Bern 1963
  • 50 years of free economy . Liberal Socialist Party of Switzerland, Bern 1965
  • Helvetic renewal . Liberal Socialist Party of Switzerland, Bern 1965
  • Live with freedom . Swiss Eastern Institute , 1967
  • The responsibility of the writer in his and in this world . Verlag Schweizerisches Ost-Institut, 1968
  • ABC of economics . Liberal Socialist Party of Switzerland, Bern 1969
  • The new man . Verlag Schweizerisches Ost-Institut, 1976
  • Friedrich Salzmann, Hans Barth-Hochuli: Thoughts on a future worth living . Liberal Socialist Party of Switzerland, Kloten 1985

literature

  • Andreas Müller: Friedrich Salzmann, August 31, 1915 - November 29, 1990: Journalist, radio presenter, writer, National Councilor: a biography . Reinach, Piazzetta-Verlag, 2013. 184 pp. ISBN 9783952346983
  • Peter Siegrist: journalist, politician and philosopher. The Aargau historian Andreas Müller has published a book about the almost forgotten Friedrich Salzmann . In: Aargauer Zeitung , December 14, 2013 issue. P. 21 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Siegrist: journalist, politician and philosopher. The Aargau historian Andreas Müller presents a book about the almost forgotten Friedrich Salzmann ( Aargauer Zeitung of December 14, 2013) ( Memento of April 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), viewed on April 26, 2016
  2. ^ Jean-Jacques Bouquet: Liberal Socialist Party. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 4, 2009. Retrieved April 26, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Salzmann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss radio presenter and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamadan
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1990
Place of death Bern