Rolf Soland

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Rolf Soland (born September 24, 1949 in Frauenfeld ; † December 3, 2018 ) was a Swiss historian .

Life

Soland grew up in Wigoltingen in the canton of Thurgau . After an apprenticeship as a bookseller, he graduated from the Thurgau teachers' seminar in Kreuzlingen from 1966 to 1970 and studied history and German literature at the University of Zurich from 1970 to 1975 . In 1972 he received the award for art and science of the teachers' seminar in Kreuzlingen for his first work, Johann Theodor von Thurn-Valsassina, which appeared in the Thurgauische Posts zur Geschichte . After obtaining his licentiate in 1975, he did his doctorate in 1977 with Peter Stadler in Zurich with the dissertation Joachim Leonz Eder and Regeneration in Thurgau 1830-1831 . Soland worked as a teacher at the canton school in Kreuzlingen , at the teacher training college in Kreuzlingen and at the canton school in Romanshorn , where he was the main teacher of history and German until 2012. He also worked as a course leader in teacher training and as a proseminar leader at the University of Zurich.

The more important works that he published between 1980 and 2014 include a monograph on Federal Councilor Heinrich Häberlin (1868–1947) and a work on Swiss state security in the interwar period ( Stämpfli Verlag , Bern) by Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung . He gave lectures on general and Swiss history , mainly in the canton of Thurgau, but also in the cantons of Zurich , St. Gallen and Basel-Stadt .

Fonts (selection)

  • Johann Theodor von Thurn-Valsassina. In: Thurgauian contributions to patriotic history. H. 108, pp. 15-51 (1970).
  • Joachim Leonz Eder and regeneration in Thurgau 1830–1831. Mühlemann, Weinfelden 1980.
  • State protection in difficult times. With a foreword by Federal Councilor Arnold Koller . Stämpfli, Bern 1992.
  • Between proletarians and potentates. Federal Councilor Heinrich Häberlin 1868–1947 and his diaries. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1997.
  • Johann Conrad Freyenmuth (1775–1843) and his diaries (= Thurgau Contributions to History. Volume 146). Historical Association of the Canton of Thurgau, Frauenfeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-9522896-6-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alois Krähenmann, André Salathé: biographer of the last Thurgau Federal Council. In: tagblatt.ch. January 10, 2019, accessed January 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Soland, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenfeld
DATE OF DEATH 3rd December 2018