René Sonderegger

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René Sonderegger (born January 16, 1899 in Heiden ; died April 12, 1965 in Geneva ) was a Swiss publicist and politician.

Life

René Sonderegger was a son of the teacher and councilor Wilhelm Sonderegger (1862–1904) and Susanna Rhyner. His brother was the politician Hans Konrad Sonderegger (1891–1944). The father died early.

Nothing is known about Sonderegger's school career. He stayed in Peru in 1920 and was a manager in an industrial company in Monza , Italy , around 1925 , when he was expelled from Mussolini Italy for political activities . In 1927 he married the German Herta Bathelt (1900–1990). You operated a small retail store with baby goods in Zurich's old town .

In the so-called front spring of 1933 he was one of the founders of the New Switzerland party , which he soon left. In the same year he self-published “Reso”, the work Switzerland in overthrow? and propagated the theories of free economy . In this book he rejected the rampant anti-Semitism and did so in the book The Truth About the Jewish Question (1935), in which he dealt with the Bern trial of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion . In 1935 he ran unsuccessfully for the National Council on the list of the National Democratic Swiss Confederation in the Canton of Zurich, which he founded and led . In 1935 he published his mother's memories of the friendship between Wilhelm Sonderegger and Henry Dunant .

Under the title Die deutsche Bartholomäusnacht he published in his Reso-Verlag in 1935 the depiction of the German National Socialist and Hitler's opponent Otto Strasser on the so-called Röhm Putsch , a year later he described in Mord-Zentrale X , as Otto Strasser did in June 1934 Saar an abduction by Gestapo - agents escaped. In 1936 he published a documentary on the kidnapping affair surrounding the German journalist Berthold Jacob, who had fled to Switzerland , which was directed against Gestapo activities in Switzerland. Between 1936 and 1939 the journal Der Sperber, which he edited, appeared irregularly . Political monthly for democracy . On November 10, 1936, out of foreign policy opportunism , the Federal Council banned the publication of Sonderegger's book Der neue Deutschen Krieg (The New German War) by Helmuth Klotz , in which the latter warned of the National Socialists' war plans , and thus damaged Sonderegger's publishing company. Up to this point Sonderegger was still on the side of the resistance against National Socialism. In the following year, Sonderegger "revealed" the supposed Jewish financiers of Hitler's rise under the title Financial World History, based on a paper published in the Netherlands in 1933 . The Third Reich in the service of high finance . Sonderegger's Reso-Verlag got into financial difficulties and Sonderegger had to sell the publisher.

After the German lightning victories in 1940, Sonderegger turned politically, published homage to Adolf Hitler and now appeared as an ardent anti-Semite and National Socialist. He now advocated subordination of Switzerland to the Europe ruled by the Germans. On July 10, 1941, Sonderegger was arrested on suspicion of intelligence work for the German Reich and remained under surveillance after his release.

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After the end of the war, Sonderegger published again his theory of the Jewish or Zionist financing of Hitler under the pseudonym Severin Reinhard . The Jewish community in Zurich, however, refrained from filing a defamation report. His book Spanish Summer. The occidental change between east and west was published in a second edition by a publishing house in Buenos Aires .

Sonderegger emigrated to Franco Spain in 1952 and worked as a hotelier in the Girona region .

Fonts (selection)

  • Switzerland in overthrow? Reso-Verlag, Zurich 1933.
  • The Jesuit is about! Reso-Verlag, Küsnacht-Zurich 1935.
  • The truth about the Jewish question. Reso-Verlag, Küsnacht-Zurich 1935.
  • Jean Henry Dunant - Revolutionary! Unpublished letters from the founder of the International Red Cross. Reso-Verlag, Zurich 1935.
  • Enemies of the people. Reso-Verlag, Küsnacht 1935.
  • Guidelines of the Swiss National Democratic Federation, to safeguard the Swiss national community and adapt the Swiss economy to true democracy, based on the Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation. Reso-Verlag, Küsnacht 1935.
  • Mordzentrale X. Revelations and documents about the activities of the German Gestapo abroad. Reso, Zurich 1936.
  • with Fritz Uhlmann, Arthur Fonjallaz : Freemasonry yes or no? Reso-Verlag, Zurich 1936.
  • Gestapo organization in Switzerland? Reso-Verlag, Zurich 1936.
  • Motta, diplomat of the Curia. As an appendix: The aims of the Catholic action. Reso-Verlag, Zurich 1936.
  • World financial history. The III. Rich in the service of international high finance. Common good before self-interest? Reso-Verlag, Zurich 1936.
  • Napoleon I, Adolf Hitler and Switzerland. Brunner, 1940.
  • Switzerland in Adolf Hitler's pan-Europe. Brunner, 1940.
  • Adolf Hitler and the emigration in Switzerland. With a critical view of asylum law, neutrality and naturalization. R. Sonderegger, Zurich 1940. [Confiscated by the censors].
  • Swiss renewal. Alpenverlag, Zurich 1941, manuscript print. [Confiscated by the censors.]
  • Money or ideal. Guidelines for the introduction of Switzerland into the European Federation. 16 pages. 1941.
  • Severin Reinhard (pseudonym): Spanish summer. The occidental change between east and west. Aehren Verlag, Affoltern am Albis 1948.
  • Severin Reinhard: The word of the vilified. Statement on the "Reformed Switzerland" case, January / February 1951. Zurich 1951.

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References and comments

  1. ^ A b Walter Wolf: Fascism in Switzerland. The history of the front movements in German-speaking Switzerland 1930–1945. Flamberg, Zurich 1969, pp. 62-64.
  2. ^ Hermann Lutz: Forgeries for foreign financing of Hitler . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . IV / 1954, pp. 586-596
personal data
SURNAME Sonderegger, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiden AR
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1965
Place of death Geneva