Joseph Mannheim

Joseph Mannheim (born January 22, 1904 in Bern , † October 3, 1984 in New York ) was a Swiss journalist.

education

Mannheim closed the schools in 1923 with the Matura , and then worked for some time as a translator in Paris . After his return to Switzerland, he studied law and in 1937 at the University of Bern to Dr. iur. PhD .

Journalistic activity

During the first years of the Second World War he was a correspondent in France . In 1941 he moved to the USA and worked a. a. for Deutschlandfunk and as a UN and New York correspondent for the Tages-Anzeiger . He also reported for the Swiss Dispatch Agency for 50 years .

Mannheim's reports on Beromünster , usually in his native Bern German , informed the Swiss since 1956 about important events and topics that made headlines in the USA and were also of interest to Switzerland. He succeeded Heiner Gautschy , also a well-known Swiss voice from the USA, as a New York correspondent. He sent the reports after the midday news in Switzerland from his apartment in New York via his, for the time, highly modern facility. Mannheim, doyen of Swiss journalists in the USA, was known to his colleagues for his long working days and his ability to deal with topics in a short time, even if he was not very familiar with them. Important events during his tenure were the Kennedy and King murders and the impeachment of Nixon . It also covered important UN events and Security Council meetings in the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1973 Mannheim became a member of the Editorial Board of the Swiss American Review and made its expertise available to this over 100 year old publication at a difficult time. In 1979 he was appointed editor emeritus by the newspaper and, after his retirement in 1981, served the board as an advisor until his death.

death

He died at the age of 81 at his place of residence in Bayside, Queens , New York, just one day after the first woman in Switzerland was elected to the Federal Council, an event that Mannheim would have liked to comment on from an American perspective. He left his wife Marian, whom he married in 1944, a son and a daughter and two grandchildren.

Works

• The criminal record and rehabilitation according to Swiss law. Haupt, Bern 1937 (Diss. Univ. Bern )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Joseph Mannheim, Editor Emeritus, Dies. In Swiss American Review. October 17, 1984, p. 1.
2. ↑ Dr. Joseph Mannheim Honored as SAR "Editor Emeritus". In: Swiss American Review. December 12, 1979, p. 1.