Hermann Eisenhut

Hermann Eisenhut (born June 29, 1902 in Basel , † 2004 in Uhwiesen ) was a leading Swiss frontist .

Life

Soon after his birth, the family moved from Basel to Feuerthalen , Canton Zurich, so that Hermann Eisenhut attended the canton school in neighboring Schaffhausen . He studied in Zurich , Geneva and in various German cities jurisprudence and concluded with a doctorate from. He took a position at the Schaffhausen Higher Court and worked for a major bank and the municipal power station. Then he was elected to the office of orphan secretary as an FDP representative. In the elections in autumn 1936, Eisenhut, who had meanwhile become one of the leading frontists, had to give way to a Social Democrat for political reasons.

Since the foundation of the Neue Front , Hermann Eisenhut had been in a leading position, for example as long-time Gauführer deputy, and from the spring of 1933 acted in particular as editor of the " Grenzbote " and later the " Front ". In addition, Eisenhut is said to have worked as a stagiaire on the editorial staff of the Bodensee-Rundschau in Konstanz , Germany, and in the spring of 1940 he was warned for his articles for the first time by the Press and Radio Message Department (APF) . In 1940 he was also included in an investigation into the frontist officers.

Hermann Eisenhut was arrested for the first time in the autumn of 1942 and a second time in the summer of 1943 for illegal political intelligence . He was also expelled from the Swiss Army in autumn 1943 .

After his release from prison in February 1944, Hermann Eisenhut tried in vain to obtain an exit permit to Germany. Even after the war he evidently met his old comrades from time to time. Eisenhut died in 2004 at an old age in Uhwiesen .

swell

• Federal Archives, Hermann Eisenhut personal dossier, E 4320 (B) 1971-78-7 / C.2.1502
• StadtA SH, files Pol. Police, C II 06/03/60
• StadtA SH, Bringolf estate, D IV 01.08 / 23-001
• Conversations with contemporary witnesses Dr. Matthias Wipf with Oskar Brunner (Police, March 6, 1998) as well as Elisabeth and Dr. Hedwig Schudel (May 5, 1998)

literature

• Matthias Wipf: The «Grenzbote» - a Swiss front-line newspaper between 1933 and 1939 . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , No. 118/2000, pp. 185–214 ( digitized version ), in particular pp. 187–191
• Matthias Wipf: “Grenzbote” and “Front” - right-wing extremist Swiss newspapers in World War II . In: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , No. 119/2001, pp. 271–301 ( digitized version )
• Walter Wolf: Fascism in Switzerland. The history of the front movement in German-speaking Switzerland 1930-1945 . Dissertation, Zurich, 1969.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Eisenhut in the catalog of the German National Library