Max Ehinger (sports journalist)

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Max Ehinger (born May 22, 1908 in Basel ; † July 17, 1974 there ) was a Swiss sports journalist and historian .

Life

Max Ehinger attended schools in Basel and the Ecole de Commerce in Neuchâtel. After completing a commercial apprenticeship, he worked in retail. He worked in Italy, England, Germany and Algeria. Even active as a footballer and track and field athlete, he then turned to sports journalism. He began his journalistic career around 1930 with what was then Basler Nachrichten , where he headed the sports department until 1944. From 1944 to 1974 he was editor-in-chief of the Sport-Toto-Zeitung , the magazine of the Sport-Toto-Gesellschaft . This magazine has since been renamed as TIP magazine after the name of the Basler Verlag Tip .

From 1950 to 1956, Ehinger was the central president of the Association of Swiss Sports Journalists (VSSJ), which was founded in 1938 and is one of the national member organizations of the Association Internationale de la Presse Sportive . From 1956 to 1964 he held the post of Secretary General of the Association Internationale de la Presse Sportive (AIPS), the world association of sports journalists. In 1973 he became an honorary member of the Management Committee of the Association Internationale de la Presse Sportive.

Between 1949 and 1968 Ehinger published several books on the subject of sport.

Fonts

  • Max Ehinger: The Olympic Football Tournament . In: Julius Wagner: XIV. OLYMPICS The Olympic Games St. Moritz - London 1948 , (two parts in one volume). Zurich: Hermes Verlag, 1949, 323 pages
  • Rolf Bögli , Max Ehinger: Sport and Gymnastics in Switzerland , Zurich: Swiss National Association for Physical Exercise, 1954, 56 pages
  • Max Ehinger (Red.): Training primer. Small manual for athletes and sports fans , Basel: Tip, 1954, 48 pages
  • Harry Thommen (eds.) And Max Ehinger (text editor): Football World Cup 1954 : Official memorial work Coupe Jules Rimet , Olten: Otto Walter, international edition. Edited under the patronage of the “Swiss Organizing Committee of the Football World Cup 1954”, 1954, 160 pages
  • Max Ehinger. 25 years Sport-Toto: 1938–63 , Basel: Sport-Toto-Gesellschaft, 1963, 73 pages
  • Max Ehinger (text) and Alfred Pauletto (illustrations): Evviva la Pro Ponte: Sport as it was then ... Basel: Verlag TIP, 1968, 87 pages

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Ehinger-Bachmann. In: Biographical lexicon of deceased Swiss people: in memoriam. Volume 7, Basel 1975. Retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 313.
  2. ↑ Sportpress.ch 1938–2013, page 6: "The Central Presidents"
  3. ^ Past officials and The history of AIPS , as well as Sportpress.ch 1938–2013, page 7: “The relations with the AIPS” .
  4. ^ Management Committee (1973-1977) of the International Association of the Sporting Press.
personal data
SURNAME Ehinger, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss sports journalist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH 17th July 1974
Place of death Basel