Paul Ehinger

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Paul H. Ehinger (born August 7, 1939 in Malmö ; legal resident in Sternenberg ) is a Swiss historian and journalist .

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As a middle school student, Ehinger became a member of the Fides Rorschach student association . He graduated from the Rorschach teacher training college, worked as a teacher for three years and studied history and sociology at the University of Zurich from 1963 . During his studies he became a member of Zofingia Zurich . In 1970 he did his doctorate with Erwin Bucher with a dissertation on early liberalism in the canton of St. Gallen . He worked as an assistant at the Research Center for Swiss Politics (today the Institute for Political Science) at the University of Bern and as an adjunct at the General Secretariat of the FDP Switzerland . From 1977 he worked as a journalist, first for Werdenberger & Toggenburger , then for the Berner Zeitung , the Basler Zeitung and the Swiss Political Correspondence . From 1988 to 2003 he was editor-in-chief of the Zofinger Tagblatt . In 1984 Ehinger was the initiator and co-founder of the Swiss Association for Student History , of which he was president from 1986 to 1994. He was the editor of Studentica Helvetica .

He has writings for the right-wing civil associations Pro Libertate and Society and Church Wohin? publishes and criticizes a left and politically correct mainstream in the media.

Fonts (selection)

  • The beginnings of the liberal party system in the canton of St. Gallen: A contribution to the history and sociology of organized liberalism in its early stages (until 1870). Zurich 1970 (= dissertation , University of Zurich, 1970; title page / table of contents ; PDF; 47 kB).
  • International liberalism. Self-published, Hinterkappelen 1977.
  • Only the old bowl is far away: History of the philistine of the Swiss Zofingerverein / Zofingia. Zofinger Tagblatt, Zofingen 1994.
  • Rule through language: political correctness - also in Switzerland. Media Panopticon Association / Swiss Association Pro Libertate, Burg / Bern 1996.
  • 125 years of the Zofinger Tagblatt: the story of a regional newspaper. Zofinger Tagblatt, Zofingen 1997, ISBN 3-909262-17-1 .
  • Is there still left-wing extremism in Switzerland? Society and Church Where to ?, Bern 2000.
  • 100 Years Corps Tatutatonia Zurich: The 50 Years from 1957 to 2007. Self-published, Zofingen 2007 ( title page / table of contents ; PDF; 140 kB).
  • 40 years of Rotary Club Zofingen 1967–2007. Rotary Club, Zofingen 2008.
  • Diversity of Opinion - Mainstream Opinion? Society and Church Where to ?, Bern 2010.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c "Add your own mustard". In: SVP-Klartext. 4/2007, p. 11 ( online ; PDF; 1.8 MB).
  2. ↑ a b 9th SWM Symposium , Foundation Truth in the Media, accessed on February 24, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Title page / table of contents of the dissertation (PDF; 47 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Ehinger, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehinger, Paul H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Malmo