Harry Gmür

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Harry Gmür (born May 14, 1908 in Bern , † September 8, 1979 in Zurich ) was a Swiss writer , journalist and communist .

Life

Gmür grew up in an upper-class family. His father Max Gmür was a lawyer and professor at the University of Bern ; his mother came from a well-to-do Fischer family who, through their grocery trade, belonged to one of the richest families in Switzerland. His brother was the legal scholar Rudolf Gmür .

After completing his studies in history and German in Bern , Paris , Munich and Leipzig , he returned to Switzerland in 1933. As a staunch anti-fascist and anti-capitalist , he joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SPS). However, he alienated himself from social democracy and the trade unions in the political debates during the referendum of 1935 . Gmür joined dissident circles and was expelled from the Social Democratic Party in 1942. In 1944 he was one of the co-founders of the Labor Party (PdA), the successor party to the banned Communist Party of Switzerland . From 1945 to 1946 he was editor-in-chief of the new party organ Vorwärts and from 1946 to 1950 PdA representative in the city ​​of Zurich's parliament .

In the 1950s, Gmür initiated, among other things, the founding of the Universum Verlag and the film distributor "Neue Exotik Film". From 1958 he published articles and reports under various pseudonyms (including Stefan Miller), especially in the GDR magazine Weltbühne . He also published some of the articles as secondary exploitation in Switzerland, for example in Vorwärts and in trade union newspapers. Various book publications were also made.

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  1. ↑ Markus Bürgi: Gmür, Harry. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Gmür, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (PdA)
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1979
Place of death Zurich