Max U. Rapold

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Max Ulrich Rapold (born February 3, 1925 in Rifferswil , † September 22, 2006 in Schaffhausen ; resident in Rheinau ZH and Zurich ) was a Swiss journalist and publisher .

Life

Rapold grew up in Stuttgart until the beginning of the Second World War , where he attended schools before the family moved to Switzerland. Here he attended the schools in Hausen am Albis and Zurich . From 1943 to 1945 he completed the senior seminar in Zurich. After the officers' school he studied at the University of Zurich jurisprudence and in 1958 with a dissertation on "democracy and economic order," he at Hans Nef wrote, PhD . Then he was admitted to the bar.

In 1960 he joined the Meier + Cie AG publishing house in Schaffhausen and became the assistant and deputy of the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Schaffhauser Nachrichten , Carl Oechslin . After his death, he was his successor as publisher and editor-in-chief from 1971 to 1994, chairman of the management board from 1971 to 1999 and chairman of the board of directors of Meier + Cie from 1971 to 2005 , after which he was honorary president until his death.

Rapold campaigned for the majority shareholder of the company, the Carl Oechslin Foundation, of which he was President from 1971 to 2006 and which he founded together with Marianne Oechslin, for the independence and liberal basic orientation of the Schaffhauser Nachrichten and stood up as an opponent of the EEA - and Switzerland's accession to the EU.

From 1980 to 1992 he was President of the Swiss Association of Newspaper and Magazine Publishers (now the Association of Swiss Media), then Honorary President until his death. From 1988 to 1994 he was a member of the board of directors of the Swiss Dispatch Agency (SDA). For many years he was secretary and president of the foundation board of the Association for Free Entrepreneurship.

Rapold died after a long illness at the age of 81.

Private

His parents were the teacher and later tenor and singing teacher in Stuttgart August Rapold and Emma Rapold nee Bär. One of his brothers was the general staff officer Hans Rapold . Rapold had been with Connie Houwert, born Sigg, with whom he had four sons, since 1954, and was married to Eve Welters since 1972. He was a member of the FDP .

Publications

  • Entrepreneurial impulses for the world of tomorrow. 6 lectures held at the 34th winter conference of the Association for Free Entrepreneurship from January 24th to January 26th, 1986 in Engelberg. Herisau 1986.
  • Democracy and economic order. A contribution to basic social science research. Polygraphischer Verlag, Zurich 1959 (also Diss. Univ. Zurich).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Schürpf: Former President of the Publishers Association. Max Rapold died. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 22, 2006.
  2. ↑ Pictures of an eventful life. In: Schaffhauser Nachrichten. September 27, 2006, p. 19.
  3. ^ Title entry of the dissertation , catalog of the library network Nebis , accessed on September 1, 2017.
  4. ^ Carl Oechslin Foundation. In: Commercial Register of the Canton of Schaffhausen.
  5. ^ A b Martin Schweizer: A publisher and editor-in-chief with principles. In: Schaffhauser Nachrichten. September 27, 2006, p. 17 f.
  6. ^ Norbert Neininger : Media Foundations. Public spirit also needs a market base. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 5th August 2014.
  7. ↑ Max U. Rapold: Knicks as before Napoleon. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 26, 2003 (letters to the editor).
  8. ^ Christian Amsler (President of the FDP-CVP parliamentary group in the Cantonal Council ): A great man in the press is well remembered. In: Schaffhauser Nachrichten. September 27, 2006, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Rapold, Max U.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rapold, Max Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Rifferswil
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 2006
Place of death Schaffhausen