Ralph Hug

Ralph Hug (* 1954 in Goldach ) is a Swiss publicist . He lives and works in St. Gallen and has been researching various political topics for many years, including the involvement of Swiss volunteers in the Spanish Civil War .

job

Ralph Hug is a co-founder of a community of interests that has set itself the task of recalling the historic achievements of the Spain volunteers and contributing to their sustainable rehabilitation. He reports on their fates in numerous articles. Together with the Social Democratic National Councilor Paul Rechsteiner and others, Ralph Hug achieved in early 2010 that the sentences against the Swiss who had fought against the Franco dictatorship in the Spanish civil war were overturned.

Works

• Contribution in: Monika Müller-Hutter u. a. (Ed.): Heimat what's that? Home is a strange word. It's female… Vexer, St. Gallen 2003, ISBN 978-3-909090-40-2 .
• St. Gallen – Moscow – Aragon. The life of the Spanish fighter Walter Wagner. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-85869-345-7 .
• With Peter Huber : The Swiss volunteers in Spain. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-85869-390-7 .
• Contribution in: Urs Kälin , Stefan Keller and Rebekka Wyler (eds.): 100 Years of the Volkshaus Zurich: Movement, Place, History. Hier + now, Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-03919-149-9 .
• Another choice is possible. How Paul Rechsteiner became a Council of States. Interview with Paul Rechsteiner by Stefan Keller; Werner Seitz's election results. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-85869-489-8 .

Awards

• Sponsorship award of the city of St. Gallen in the amount of CHF 10,000 for a contribution to research into the history of Spain volunteers, St. Gallen 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ralph Hug in the catalog of the German National Library
• 800 Swiss people in the Spanish Civil War , IG Spain Volunteers
• Interview with Ralph Hug , rebell.tv

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Ralph Hug" ( Memento of the original from May 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , City Administration St. Gallen, 2010 
2. ^ "Charles Fischer - A Letter That Never Arrived" , WOZ, March 11, 2010.
3. ↑ "Posthumous Amnesty?" (PDF; 117 kB), NZZ, November 12, 2010.
4. ↑ "Publicist Ralph Hug reports on the Swiss volunteers in the Spanish Civil War" ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , See-Online.info, May 31, 2010. 
5. ^ "Work contributions" ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , St. Gallen, 2010