Hans Ulrich Jost

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Hans Ulrich Jost, photographed by Erling Mandelmann (1988)

Hans Ulrich Jost (born July 29, 1940 in Biel ) is a Swiss historian , university professor, author and editor.

Life

Jost studied history and sociology at the universities of Zurich and Bern . He worked as an assistant and lecturer at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern, where he received his doctorate in 1970. From 1981 to 2005 he was a full professor of modern general and Swiss history at the University of Lausanne . Since 2005 he has been President of the Editions Project Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland (DDS), of which he has been a member since the 1980s.

Jost was an officer in the Swiss Army and a fighter jet pilot. He took part in the student movement in 1968 . Jost sees himself as a left-wing and critical historian who seeks to overcome historical myths, particularly those relating to Switzerland's role in World War II .

Jost interprets the national strike as another key historical moment to which he has repeatedly devoted publications . He also took part in the final podium of the National Strike Congress in November 2017 and published an article on this in the magazine WIDERSPRUCH 71/18.

Fonts (selection)

  • Left-wing radicalism in German-speaking Switzerland 1914–1918. Stämpfli, Bern 1973 (dissertation, University of Bern, 1970).
  • The old communists. Left-wing radicalism and socialism in Switzerland 1919–1921. Huber, Frauenfeld 1977.
  • Threat and Narrow (1914–1945). In: History of Switzerland and the Swiss. Vol. 3, Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1983, pp. 101-190.
  • The reactionary avant-garde. The birth of the new right in Switzerland around 1900. Chronos, Zurich 1992.
  • About numbers and power. Statisticians, statistics and political authorities in Switzerland, 18th to 20th centuries. Federal Statistical Office, Bern 1995.
  • Politics and economics in war. Switzerland 1938–1948. Chronos, Zurich 1998.
  • Europe and Switzerland 1945–1950. Council of Europe, supranationality and Swiss independence. Chronos, Zurich 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. 3rd edition (1998/1999), p. 411.
  2. ↑ a b authors. In: Traverse . Vol. 14 (2007), H. 1, pp. 189-190, here p. 190 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Hans Ulrich Jost: The political land damage of the right turn. In: Red Review . Vol. 85 (2007), H. 1, pp. 2-5, here p. 5 ( online ).
  4. ↑ 100 years of state strike: causes, areas of conflict, consequences . http://generalstreik.ch/tagung-zum-landesstreik/
  5. ↑ Hans Ulrich Jost, To prevent the welfare state - How right-wing bourgeois forces instrumentalize the general strike of 1918 , WIDERSPRUCH 71/18, pp. 129-138
personal data
SURNAME Jost, Hans Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Biel / Bienne