Hermann Battaglia

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Hermann Battaglia (born May 12, 1937 ), von Scheid GR, is a Swiss freelance journalist, communications specialist and politician ( SP ).

Life

Battaglia is a trained teacher. In 1962 he became a member of the St. Gallen City Council (since 2005 “City Parliament”) and secretary of the socialist planning community established by the Socialist Lake Constance International . After a few years in school he became the sole editor of the St. Gallen SP newspaper Volksstimme in 1967 . On April 1, 1968 he joined the editorial team of Tagwacht and was its editor-in-chief from October 1, 1968 until the end of 1969. 1970‒1972 he was Federal City Editor of the AZ-Ring, 1972‒1973 Federal Building Editor and Deputy Head of the Swiss Dispatch Agency (SDA) and 1973‒1976 Head of Press of the PTT General Directorate. From 1976 to 1979 he was editor-in-chief of Berner Nachrichten and, after the merger of Berner Tagblatt and Berner Nachrichten into Berner Zeitung in 1979, he was planning director / marketing director of the new newspaper for a short time. After a detour to Ringier, he took over the editor-in-chief of the Coop newspaper and ultimately became head of the Coop press in Basel.

1969-1970 he was a member of the SDA Board of Directors. In 1972 he was re-elected to succeed Ueli Götsch , but resigned after joining the SDA in autumn 1972.

From 1987 to 2002 he was press chief of the Reformed Churches in Bern-Jura-Solothurn , after which he was a freelance communications specialist. Since 2008 he has been President of the “Good Ecumenical Commission” and since 2009 President of the Commission for the Ecumenica label of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Switzerland (AGCK).

From 1993 Battaglia was President of the Public Council of SRG German-speaking Switzerland , from 1999 President of the Program Commission of SRG Bern Friborg Wallis (RGB, “Radio and Television Cooperative Bern”) and at the same time a member of the Executive Board, from 2007 delegate of SRG German-speaking Switzerland in RGB. At the end of 2009 he stepped down from the program committee and the RGB board after falling out of the elevator of the Bern radio studio, which caused a broken upper arm, but also out of frustration that the audience council was not taken seriously enough, but remained until 2011 Delegate of SRG German-speaking Switzerland and member of the commission for media policy.

Private

Battaglia is married to Annemarie Eggenberger and has two sons (Flurin, * 1958, Mario, * 1959). He lives in Spiez . One of his role models is former Labor Minister Richard Stafford Cripps , whose creed he refers to in the book "Christian Democracy".

Works (selection)

  • What does the church bring me? Central church administration, Evangelical-Reformed Synodal Association Bern-Jura, Verlag Kirchliche Zentralverwaltung, 1988.
  • What does information mean? Lectures from the 7th meeting of the working group from 6./7. November 1987 in Interlaken, Verlag ev. Arbeitskreis f. Politics, 1987.
  • Leisure album: Drawings, cartoons and caricatures from current and leisure events. With Oskar Weiss, Verlag Berner Zeitung, 1981.
  • Berner Zeitung BZ: a portrait. Verlag Berner Zeitung, 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Persons entered in the commercial register with the name Hermann Battaglia. In: moneyhouse, commercial register and economic information.
  2. ↑ a b c Bettina Büsser: "I don't just cuddle." In: plain text. July 10, 2007.
  3. ↑ Changes to the "Tagwacht" editorial team. In: Tagwacht. October 1, 1968, p. 1.
  4. ↑ "Want to change." In: The time . June 16, 1978.
  5. ↑ Klaus Bonanomi: Living in larger rooms. In: plain text. July 10, 2007.
  6. ^ "This is good ecumenism". In: Working Group of Christian Churches in Switzerland. September 2009.
  7. ↑ With joy and confidence to work. In: Tagwacht. April 1, 1968, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Battaglia, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1937