Kurt Bächtold

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Kurt Bächtold (Photo Wessendorf, Schaffhausen)

Kurt Bächtold (born November 13, 1918 in Merishausen ; † October 30, 2009 in Schaffhausen ) was a Swiss journalist , local historian and politician ( FDP ).

biography

The son of a secondary school teacher studied history and classical philology at the University of Zurich from 1939 to 1946 and did his doctorate . From 1947 to 1968 he worked as an editor for the Schaffhauser Nachrichten . As a journalist, he campaigned heavily against the construction of the Rheinau power plant, which he described in articles as a “cultural disgrace”. Between 1957 and 1961 he was also President of the Schaffhausen Historical Society. From 1968 to 1983 he was head of the Schaffhausen City Library. In this function he was in charge of the cataloging and scientific processing of the estates of the brothers Johannes von Müller and Johann Georg Müller . He was the author of numerous publications on the history of the city and the history of the Klettgau .

politics

He began his political career 1948–1952 as a member of the Grand City Council of Schaffhausen. In 1961 he was elected a member of the Council of States as a candidate for the Free Democratic Party (FDP) . There he represented the interests of the canton of Schaffhausen until 1979 and was particularly involved in the areas of nature conservation , homeland security as well as state and educational policy . He was also active in the field of foreign policy and from January 1972 to May 1974 first deputy member and then until September 1978 member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe . From 1975 to 1979 he was Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

In 1973/1974 he was President of the Council of States and thus, after Gustav Schoch , Albert Ammann , Beat Heinrich Bolli and Kurt Schoch, the fifth President of the Council of States from the canton of Schaffhausen. It was not until 2013/2014 that Hannes Germann was again held by a Schaffhausen resident.

After leaving the Council of States, he was President of the Federal Nature and Heritage Protection Commission from 1980 to 1988. In 1989 he became an honorary citizen of the Wilchingen community and in 1990 an honorary member of the historical association.

Works (selection)

  • World history in the 20th century. Schaffhausen 1959. 173 pp.
  • Contributions from the administration of the city-state of Schaffhausen from the Reformation to the Revolution. Schaffhausen 1947.
  • 500 years shooting society of the city of Schaffhausen. Schaffhausen 1953. 89 pp.
  • Johannes von Müller. Small fonts. Schaffhausen 1954. 242 p. (Co-authors Ernst Steinemann, Peter Vogelsanger, Karl Schib , Albert Steinegger)
  • Photographic narration. Schaffhausen, Rhine to Untersee. 1955.
  • 150 years of the Schaffhausen Cantonal Officers' Society, 1807–1957. Anniversary font. Schaffhausen 1957.
  • 100 years of Scaphusia 1858–1958. Schaffhausen 1958.
  • 150 years of the Cantonal Building Insurance Schaffhausen 1809–1959. Schaffhausen 1959.
  • When storms of war raged around the canton of Schaffhausen. Schaffhausen 1965.
  • Schaffhauser photo book. Encounter with city and landscape. 1970.
  • From the history of viticulture in Eastern Switzerland. Writings on wine history, 34.
  • With Walter Ulrich Guyan and Jürg Zimmermann: To All Saints' Day in Schaffhausen. Zurich 1975.
  • Beets. Land of white roads. Photo book of a Schaffhausen landscape. Schaffhausen 1976.
  • Swiss cantons - Schaffhausen. Neuchâtel 1978.
  • Schaffhausen in grandmother's time. Schaffhausen 1980.
  • With Fritz Curt Weber and Emil Wiesli: parks in the city of Schaffhausen. Schaffhausen 1981.
  • Ruth Blum . Biography. Schaffhausen 1981.
  • With Hermann Wanner: Economic history of the canton of Schaffhausen. Schaffhausen 1983.
  • Hermann Hesse - Hans Sturzenegger. Correspondence 1905–1943. Peter Meili, Schaffhausen 1984, ISBN 3-85805-106-3
  • Dialect poet Albert Bächtold 1891–1981. Schaffhausen 1986, ISBN 3-85805-041-5 .
  • The history of the Büttenhardt community. 1988.
  • History of Wilchingen. Wilchingen 1988.
  • Photographic stories from Schaffhausen, Rhine to Untersee. Schaffhausen 1989.
  • The history of the outskirts of Beggingen. Committed in 1991.
  • Osterfingen - The history of the wine-growing village. Osterfingen 1994.
  • With Tina Grütter: Werner Schaad, drawings and pictures from the Parisian era / Das Spätwerk. Schaffhausen 1999.
  • With Christina Bürgin, Armin Eberle, Eduard Joos, Stefan Sigrist: Schaffhausen canton history of the 19th and 20th centuries / Volume 3: Society - Everyday life - Culture - Settlement - Religion - Literature - Register. Schaffhausen 2002.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ President of the Historical Association ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 693 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.historischerverein-sh.ch
  2. ↑ The new means of transport on the Upper Rhine in 1862: On rails through the Klettgau (PDF; 519 kB)
  3. ↑ Website of the Council of Europe ( Memento of the original from November 7th, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / assembly.coe.int
personal data
SURNAME Bächtold, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, local historian and politician (FDP)
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Merishausen
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 2009
Place of death Schaffhausen