Hans Robert Jenny

Hans Robert Jenny (born March 25, 1912 in Zurich ; † May 7, 1996 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss business journalist and real estate entrepreneur.

Life

Jenny joined the National Front in the 1930s . In 1938 he joined the splinter group of Confederation loyal to the National Socialist worldview , based on the model of the NSDAP , and in 1940 he joined its successor organization, the National Movement of Switzerland (NBS). Degree in economics in Zurich and Berlin , he completed in 1940 with the promotion of Dr. oec. publ. from. Until the end of the Second World War, he worked as a freelance journalist and business commentator for newspapers under the influence of the party publisher of the NSDAP ( Franz-Eher-Verlag ). After the end of the war, he founded a tax consultancy and trustee office, which he expanded over the years into a large administration and real estate company, Verit. From 1954 on, Jenny went on numerous study trips to southern Africa and published his travel impressions in several books and numerous articles. He took a positive position on South African apartheid . In 1968 he and his wife Trudy established the Foundation for Occidental Reflection (STAB), today the Foundation for Occidental Ethics and Culture . He was also a co-founder of the Engadin College, which was created with a similar objective.

Fonts (selection)

• The Swiss coal trade. Kreutler, Zurich 1941 (= dissertation, University of Zurich, 1940).
• Balkan trip in the war. From a journalist's diary. Reprint from: National Issues. May 1942. Self-published, Zurich 1942.
• The European Southeast. Publishing house Nationale Hefte, Zurich 1943.
• Swiss in Europe. In: Young Europe. 1943, No. 6, pp. 27-29.
• Israel. Young state on old ground. Mercator, Munich 1958.
• South West Africa. Land between the extremes. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966.
• South Africa. Country without example. Kümmerly and Frey / BLV, Bern 1976.
• The claim society in the welfare state. The change in needs in Switzerland 1912–1988. Verit administration and real estate company, Zurich 1989.

Archival material

• Federal Police dossier on Jenny: Jenny, Hans Robert, 1912. In: Swiss Federal Archives . E4320B # 1970/25 # 449 * ( info ).
• Estate of Dr. oec. publ. Hans Robert Jenny (1912-1996). In: Archives for Contemporary History (PDF), z. T. not publicly accessible.
• A partial estate of Hans Jenny and his wife Trudy can be found in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien .

literature

• Jürg Frischknecht : Political donations washed in the occidental. "Foundation for Occidental Reflection". For elites and hierarchy. In: The weekly newspaper . April 12, 1985.
• Estate of Hans Robert Jenny. In: Archives for Contemporary History: Annual Report 2004. Zurich 2005, p. 43 f. ( PDF; 1.54 MB ).
• Adrian Zimmermann: "For Western Ethics and Culture". Dr. Jenny's mission is not over yet. In: The weekly newspaper . April 14, 2011, p. 5.

Web links

• Hans Robert Jenny in the Dodis databaseof diplomatic documents of Switzerland