Otto Zaugg

Otto Zaugg (born April 11, 1906 in Bern , † August 9, 1998 in Poschiavo ; hometown Eggiwil ) was a Swiss civil servant and actor in Swiss refugee policy during and after the Second World War .

Life

Otto Zaugg was the son of Rosa Elise Gerber and Hans Zaugg, a businessman. He married Delia Koller and completed his training as a mechanical engineer at the ETH Zurich in 1932 . In 1933 he founded the Swiss Central Office for Voluntary Labor Service , of which he was director until 1946. In 1940 Zaugg carried out a feasibility study on labor camps for civilian refugees on behalf of the federal government ; from April of the same year he was chairman of the newly created federal central management of the labor camps for emigrants . He headed the office, which was renamed the Federal Central Management of Homes and Camps in 1945, until it was dissolved in 1950. Zaugg then moved to the private sector, where he held a management position at the National Insurance Company .

Zaugg's estate is in the Archives for Contemporary History in Zurich.

Madeleine Lerf: Zaugg, Otto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Simon Erlanger: “Just a transit country”: Labor camps and internment homes for refugees and emigrants in Switzerland 1940–1949 . Chronos, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-0340-0743-6 .
Otto Zaugg: Switzerland and the refugees you magazine , 1945, E-Periodica

Training, retraining and continuing education for refugees . In: Swiss Central Agency for Refugee Aid (Ed.): Refugees where? Report on the conference on return and onward migration issues in Montreux. Discussion between authorities, aid organizations and refugees. February 25 to March 1, 1945 . Zurich 1945, OCLC 605402872 , p. 158–172 ( Table of Contents [accessed July 7, 2018]).
Swiss Central Agency for Voluntary Labor Service (Ed.): Twenty-five years of the Swiss Central Agency for Voluntary Labor Service . Basel 1958, OCLC 603078075 .

personal data
SURNAME	Zaugg, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss civil servant (refugee policy)
DATE OF BIRTH	April 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bern
DATE OF DEATH	August 9, 1998
Place of death	Poschiavo