Klaus Urner

Klaus Urner (born August 19, 1942 in Zurich or Stein am Rhein ; legal resident in Zurich) is a Swiss historian who founded the Archive for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich and managed it until the end of August 2007. Urner became Jean-François Bergier's assistant in 1973 and honorary professor of history at ETH Zurich in 1993. He has done pioneering work in securing the estates of private individuals, organizations and companies (particularly on economic history and contemporary Jewish history ) as well as in the field ofOral history .

Works

• The Germans in Switzerland: From the Beginning of Colonies to the Outbreak of the First World War. Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-7193-0517-1 .
• The Swiss Hitler Assassin: Three Studies on Resistance and its Limits: Systemic Resistance / Individual perpetrators and their environment / Maurice Bavaud and Marcel Gebohay. Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7193-0634-8 .
• "Switzerland still has to be swallowed!" Hitler's plans of action against Switzerland: Two studies on the threat to Switzerland in World War II. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-85823-303-X . Revised and updated new edition: Pendo, Zurich / Munich 1998, ISBN 3-85842-516-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Urner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Web presence of the archive for contemporary history
• The archivist with the tape , NZZ on Sunday , August 26, 2007
• The pioneer leaves , St. Galler Tagblatt , August 29, 2007
• From the attic to the research center (PDF; 954 kB), Tages-Anzeiger , 23 August 2007
• Four decades of a “House for Contemporary History” , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 31, 2007 (PDF; 521 kB)
• The Lord of Contemporary History , Tachles , August 24, 2007 (PDF; 788 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vademecum of History (2000) and Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar (2003).
2. ^ The archivist with the tape , NZZ on Sunday , August 26, 2007, accessed on October 26, 2012.
3. ^ Foundation Archive for Contemporary History. ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Internet excerpt, Commercial Register of the Canton of Zurich, accessed on October 26, 2012. 
4. ^ The pioneer goes , St. Galler Tagblatt , August 29, 2007, accessed on October 26, 2012.