Gregor Spuhler

Gregor Spuhler (born 1963 in Laufenburg AG ) is a Swiss historian .

Life

Gregor Spuhler studied history and German in Basel and Göttingen . After a research project on the history of Frauenfeld , from 1997 to 2001 he was one of the project managers at the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War and co-author of the Bergier reports it published , including the controversial refugee report . After that he was assistant for modern general history at the history seminar of the University of Basel until 2007 and then took over the management of the archive for contemporary history (AfZ) at the ETH Zurich .

Spuhler wrote numerous local articles in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Fonts (selection)

• Saved - broken. The life of the Jewish refugee Rolf Merzbacher between persecution, psychiatry and reparation. Chronos, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0340-1064-1 .
• with Sibylle Brändli, Barbara Lüthi (Ed.): Make a fall, become a fall. Knowledge production and patient experience in medicine and psychiatry in the 19th and 20th centuries. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38864-9 .
• with Barbara Bonhage, Peter Gautschi, Jan Hodel: looking and asking. Switzerland and the era of National Socialism in the light of current issues. Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-03713-058-X .
• Making amends without injustice. Coming to terms with the era of National Socialism in Switzerland. In: Contemporary History. Vol. 31, H. 4 (2004), pp. 242-258.
• Co-author: Switzerland, National Socialism and the Second World War. Final report of the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War. Pendo, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85842-601-6 .
• with U. Jud, P. Melichar, D. Wildmann: "Aryanizations" in Austria and their references to Switzerland. Chronos, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-0340-0620-9 . (Independent expert commission Switzerland - Second World War / Commission Indépendante d'Experts Suisse - Seconde Guerre Mondiale 20)
• with Jean-François Bergier , Valérie Boillat: Switzerland and the refugees at the time of National Socialism. Independent expert comm. Switzerland - Second World War, Bern 1999, ISBN 3-908661-04-8 .
• with Beat Gnädinger: Frauenfeld. History of a city in the 19th and 20th centuries. Huber, Frauenfeld 1996, ISBN 3-7193-1115-5 .
• Ed. And contributions: Polyphonic memory: Contributions to oral history. Chronos, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-905311-45-3 . (Ed. By Working Group on Oral History)

Web links

• Gregor Spuhler , at the University of Basel
• Gregor Spuhler , Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War