Otto Coninx-Wettstein

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Otto Coninx-Wettstein (born October 7, 1915 in Zurich ; † March 19, 2001 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss lawyer and publisher .

Life

Otto Coninx was the son of Otto Coninx-Girardet , his mother was Berta Coninx, née Girardet, the daughter of Wilhelm Girardet . He studied law and did his doctorate on the guarantee of residence in the Swiss Federal Constitution .

From 1942 Otto Coninx - together with his brother Werner Coninx - took a seat on the board of directors of the family business Tages-Anzeiger für Stadt und Kanton Zürich AG , from 1943 he was also operational. After the death of his father Otto Coninx-Girardet, he took over the management of the Zurich publishing house in 1956, from which today's Tamedia emerged , and at the same time became its Chairman of the Board of Directors.

In 1978 he gave up the operational management of the company and in 1987 he also handed over the chairmanship of the board of directors to his son Hans Heinrich Coninx . He remained Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors until his death . In 1978, against the will of the Tages-Anzeiger editorial team, Niklaus Meienberg was banned from writing for many years because he had written an ironic text about the Prince of Liechtenstein.

Works

  • The importance of the guarantee of residence under Article 59 of the Federal Constitution in international legal transactions. Zurich studies on international law., No. 7. Dissertation . Polygraphischer Verlag, Zurich 1942.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronicle 1931–1970 ( Memento of September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Tamedia .
  2. ^ Chronicle 2001 ( Memento of April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Tamedia.
personal data
SURNAME Coninx-Wettstein, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coninx, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 2001
Place of death Zollikon