Mario king

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Mario König (born November 12, 1947 in Zurich ; † April 6, 2019 ) was a Swiss historian .

Life

Mario König, son of the German sociologist René König , who fled the Nazi regime to Switzerland , studied general history, economic and social history at the University of Zurich from 1969 . After graduating, he worked at the Research Center for Social and Economic History in Zurich. In 1980 he did his doctorate in Zurich on the social situation and organization of employees in Switzerland during the First World War and shortly afterwards. Since 1986 he has worked as a freelance worker on various research projects, publications and exhibitions as well as in the editorial department of the historical magazine « traverse - magazine for history / Revue d'histoire». He was a research assistant at the Independent Expert Commission Switzerland - Second World War (ICE) (author of the Interhandel study, ICE publications, Volume 2) and a member of the final report editorial group. His research focuses on the social, economic and cultural history of Switzerland and Germany in the 20th century. König succumbed to cancer in April 2019.

Fonts (selection)

  • The employees between the bourgeoisie and the labor movement. Social situation and organization of commercial employees in Switzerland, 1914–1920. Limmat , Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-85791-079-8 (= abbreviated dissertation , University of Zurich, 1980).
  • (with Hannes Siegrist and Rudolf Vetterli) Wait and move up. Employees in Switzerland, 1870–1950. Chronos , Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-905278-01-4 .
  • (with Franz Lamprecht) Eglisau . History of the bridge city on the Rhine. Chronos, Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-905311-01-1 .
  • (with Erich Gysling and Michael T. Ganz) 1945 - Switzerland in the year of peace . Silva, Zurich 1995
  • (with Manfred Hettling , Martin Schaffner , Andreas Suter and Jakob Tanner ) A little history of Switzerland. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-518-12079-4 .
  • Interhandel : The Swiss holding company of IG Farben and its metamorphoses - an affair about property and interests (1910–1999) (= publications of the ICE. Volume 2). Chronos, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-03-400602-0 ( abstract ).
  • (with Hans Ulrich Wipf and Adrian Knoepfli) Saurer. From a small business in Eastern Switzerland to an international technology group. hier + now, publishing house for culture and history, Baden 2003, ISBN 3-906419-55-X .
  • (with Markus Bürgi) Harry Gmür - citizen, communist, journalist: biography, reports, political comments. Chronos, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-03-400920-1 .
  • On my own behalf. The University of Basel on the way to autonomy and new sponsorship 1985–2010 (= sources and research on the history and regional studies of the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Volume 89). Verlag des Kantons Basel-Landschaft, Liestal 2010, ISBN 978-3-85673-282-0 .
  • (with Rea Brändle ): Huggenberger. A writer's career. Publishing house of the Historical Association of the Canton of Thurgau, Frauenfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-9522896-8-6 . (= Thurgau's contributions to history; 148/149)
  • (Editor with Georg Kreis ) Chemistry and Pharma in Basel . 2 vols. Basel 2016. ISBN 978-3-85616-816-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum of the historical sciences. F. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, p. 439.
  2. ↑ obituary portal.ch. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ https://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Soziologische_Klassiker/_K%C3%B6nig,_Rene
  4. ↑ Details on the history and content on a website of the Canton of Thurgau and the Cultural Foundation of the Canton of Thurgau, accessed on June 21, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME King, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2019