Max Frenkel

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Max Frenkel (born April 14, 1938 in Zurich ) is a Swiss journalist .

Life

Max Frenkel was born as the son of the businessman Hermann Frenkel and his wife Mina Esrin. After graduating from commercial school, he studied law at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1967 with Werner Kägi .

From 1967 to 1987 he was managing director of the ch Foundation for Federal Cooperation in Solothurn . At the same time he was secretary general of the prospective conference of the New Helvetic Society from 1970 to 1973 . From 1987 to 2003 he worked as a political editor for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and then until 2006 as a columnist for the NZZ am Sonntag . He also wrote as a columnist for Weltwoche and the Basler Zeitung .

During his time at NZZ he dealt particularly intensively with the then virulent conflict over dormant Jewish assets in Swiss banks and the shadow of the Second World War. Looking back in 2013, he stated that as a Jew he was free to say things that would have been criticized as anti-Semitic among non-Jews.

His style sometimes goes beyond the critique of people and society that is typical of columnists, to the point of malice towards individuals such as Micheline Calmy-Rey , Adolf Muschg or Max Frisch , typically towards people from the left-wing political spectrum.

Frenkel was one from 1977 to 1988 as a representative of the FDP the council of Zuchwil on. In the Swiss Army he was a lieutenant colonel . Frenkel is single and lives in Zuchwil.

Awards

  • 1984 Prix ​​de l'État de Berne (awarded by the Canton of Vaud from a donation from the Canton of Bern)
  • 2001 Walter and Verena Spühl Prize
  • 2005 Doron Prize

Further engagements

Frenkel was the founder of various organizations and was responsible for the following companies:

  • Swiss IT Conference (SIK)
  • Research institute for federalism and regional structures in Riehen
  • Institute for Federalism in Freiburg i. Ue.
  • Film Institute Bern
  • Cinémathèque Suisse
  • Sports center Zuchwil AG
  • Visiting Fellow at the Center for Research on Federal Financial Relations (ANU Canberra 1978)
  • President of the Milton Ray Hartmann Foundation in Bern
  • President of the Oertli Foundation
  • Board member of the Swiss education server educa.ch

Publications (selection)

  • Walter Renschler , Elisabeth Kopp , Max Frenkel: La suisse = Switzerland. Swiss Action Committee Preserve Freedom, Zurich 1962.
  • Administrative control institutions. Schulthess, Zurich 1969 (= Zurich contributions to jurisprudence. New series, vol. 308; dissertation).
  • Federalism as a partnership: interdependence and autonomy in the state. Lang, Bern 1977 (= publications of the Research Institute for Federalism and Regional Structures Riehen / Basel. No. 2), ISBN 3-261-02910-2 .
  • Federalism and the federal state: System, law and problems of the federal state in the area of ​​tension between democracy and federalism. 2 volumes. Lang, Bern 1984/86, ISBN 3-261-03383-5 , ISBN 3-261-03546-3 (= publications of the Research Institute for Federalism and Regional Structures Riehen / Basel. No. 14/15).
  • Äxgüsi - The ABC of the politically incorrect Swiss. Vontobel Foundation , Zurich 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Frenkel: "Shadow of the Second World War". The dispute over dormant assets in retrospect. In: NZZ . 18th July 2013
  2. ↑ Basler Zeitung of November 27, 2010 and May 14, 2011
  3. ↑ Winner , Swiss Foundation for the Doron Prize, accessed on May 1, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Frenkel, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich