Karl Sartorius

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Karl Sartorius (born September 11, 1890 in Pratteln , † February 10, 1965 in Basel ) was a Swiss newspaper publisher and lawyer . From 1923 to 1958 he was editor of the Basler Nachrichten .

Life

Sartorius was the son of pastor Karl Sartorius and Amélie nee Staehelin. He attended grammar school in Burg (today grammar school at Münsterplatz ), then studied law in Basel , Heidelberg and Leipzig and was awarded a doctorate in 1914 at the University of Basel with a dissertation on copyright in newspapers and magazines. iur. PhD .

From 1915 to 1918 he was secretary of the education department of the canton of Basel-Stadt .

From 1918 he was the editorial secretary of Basler Nachrichten under his father-in-law, the editor-in-chief Pastor Otto Zellweger, director and publisher from 1923 to 1958, and from 1935 to 1958 also delegate to the board of directors . After resigning from this position at the end of 1958, he remained a member of the Board of Directors until his death .

From 1927 until his death in 1965 he was Otto Zellweger's successor on the board of directors of the Swiss Dispatch Agency (from 1944 member of the committee and vice-president). From 1929 he was a member of the central board, from 1938 to 1955 President and from 1955 to 1956 still a member of the central board and the executive committee of the Swiss Association of Newspaper Publishers (today Association of Swiss Media ). When he resigned as president, he was made an honorary member. From 1948 to 1965 he was Vice President of the Fédération Internationale des Editeurs de Journaux (now WAN-IFRA ). Sartorius was particularly committed to freedom of the press .

From 1938 to 1955, Sartorius was also President of the Mixed Press Political Commission, a joint body of newspaper publishers and journalists. During the Second World War it performed the task of a press council, recognized and consulted by the authorities, but completely independent. This independence enabled her to act as an intermediary between the Federal Council and, at times, the army command and the newspapers.

Sartorius was first lieutenant in the Swiss Army and adjutant to Battalion 179 during the Second World War. He was a member of the parish council of the Münster parish, president of the Münster parish association of the positive, president of the Basel Bach Choir and a member of the board of directors of the Basel radio cooperative and its program commission.

During his vacation in the Engadine in 1964, he suffered a serious illness from which he eventually succumbed.

Publications

  • Telecommunications report XI. Presented at the Congress of the Conseil of the Fédération Internationale des Editeurs de Journaux in Milan. Basel 1959.

Private

The deeply religious Christian Sartorius had been married to Marie Anne Zellweger, a daughter of the editor-in-chief of Basler Nachrichten , Otto Zellweger , since 1915 . Her sister was the women's rights activist and church activist Elisabeth Zellweger . The couple had five children, Marianne, Helene, Dorothee, Christine and Karl Andreas Sartorius.

literature

  • † Dr. Karl Sartorius. In: Swiss dispatch agency. Report of the Board of Directors. Fritz Pochon-Jent, Bern 1966, p. 27 f.
  • Dr. Karl Sartorius †. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 11, 1965, morning edition, sheet 3.
  • Memories of Dr. Karl Sartorius. In: Basler Nachrichten . February 15, 1965, p. 5.
  • New election of the president. In: Swiss Association of Newspaper Publishers: Bulletin. No. 359/360, June / July 1955, pp. 230-233.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Gustav Adolf Wanner: Farewell to Dr. Karl Sartorius. In: Basler Nachrichten . February 16, 1965, p. 2.
  2. ↑ Thomas Fuchs: Zellweger, Otto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ A change in the “Basler Nachrichten”. In: Basler Nachrichten. December 31, 1958, Abendblatt, p. 1.
  4. ^ Edmund Richner: On the death of Karl Sartorius. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 11, 1965, evening edition, sheet 3.
  5. ↑ Gustav Adolf Wanner: In memory of Dr. Karl Sartorius. In: Basler Nachrichten. Abendblatt, February 11, 1965, p. 1.
personal data
SURNAME Sartorius, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss newspaper publisher and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Pratteln
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1965
Place of death Basel