Markus Heiniger

Markus Heiniger (* 1954 ) is a Swiss historian and journalist .

Life

Heiniger studied history in Zurich and was editor of the Friedenszeitung . Today he works as a program manager in Political Department IV of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA).

He no longer works as a historian. Nevertheless, as a historian, he wrote a book that caused a sensation in Switzerland and sparked a wide variety of discourses (see chapter “Thirteen Reasons ...”).

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Peace Council from August 5th to 7th, 2005, he gave a lecture entitled: 1945: Lessons from the war - A departure for peace? .

He used to work as a secretary within the Peace Council.

Thirteen reasons ...

According to the Swiss weekly newspaper , Markus Heiniger has summarized and re-discussed the central findings of the scientific analysis of the period between 1933 and 1945 in his book "Why Switzerland Was Not Conquered During World War II".

The Tages-Anzeiger takes the book (alongside the work Federal Budget, Currency and War Economy as an example of a New View by Jakob Tanner ) as a reversal of the theory that Switzerland was only "lucky" to have emerged from the fascist era unscathed. He and Tanner looked less at the military factor than at “Switzerland's economic cooperation with Nazi Germany”.

The book "Thirteen Reasons ..." has been included as a reference in the "Historisch Lexikon der Schweiz" on the subject of "Critical Tones 1975 ~ 1995".

Fonts

Markus Heiniger: Thirteen reasons. Why Switzerland was not conquered in World War II. Limmat, Zurich 1989, ISBN 3-85791-155-7 .
Acting for a world. Helvetas and its international cooperation from A to Z. For the Helvetas organization , Zurich 1995.

Web links

Interview with Markus Heiniger , WoZ-Die Wochenzeitung

Individual evidence

↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original of July 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Overview of the program of the 60th anniversary of the Peace Council @1@ 2

↑ Article from the WOZ-Die Wochenzeitung from Switzerland

↑ Tages-Anzeiger of August 21, 2006 Title: “Lonely on the island of the blissful. Switzerland sees itself as a stroke of luck in history. But the transfigured image makes you blind to reality. "

^ Georg Kreis : Second World War, Histography and Debate from 1945, Critical Tones 1975 ~ 1995. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

personal data
SURNAME	Heiniger, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1954

[1] Archived copy ( Memento of the original of July 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Overview of the program of the 60th anniversary of the Peace Council @1@ 2

[2] Article from the WOZ-Die Wochenzeitung from Switzerland

[3] Tages-Anzeiger of August 21, 2006 Title: “Lonely on the island of the blissful. Switzerland sees itself as a stroke of luck in history. But the transfigured image makes you blind to reality. "

[4] Georg Kreis : Second World War, Histography and Debate from 1945, Critical Tones 1975 ~ 1995. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .