Thomas Huonker

Thomas Huonker (born May 20, 1954 in Zurich ; legal domicile there ) is a Swiss historian and politician ( SP ).

biography

Thomas Huonker, a son of the journalist and politician Gustav Huonker , graduated from the Rämibühl secondary school in Zurich and studied history, German-language literature and ethnology at the universities of Zurich and Geneva . 1982 doctorate he attended the University of Zurich Dr. phil. Huonker works as an independent historian and has also been involved in teaching for a long time. He is a member of the Swiss Society for History , was a member of the round table for the victims of compulsory welfare measures from 2013 to 2015 and of the Independent Expert Commission for the Scientific Review of Administrative Care Before 1981 from 2014 to 2019. His writings include the German cultural historian Eduard Fuchs , the history of Roma , Sinti and Yeniche , forced sterilization and administrative care , children in homes and contract children in Switzerland as well as other areas of cultural and social history .

From 1990 to 1998 he was a Cantonal Councilor in Zurich . He is married and has two daughters and a son. His daughter Laura Huonker is a theater maker and has also been a member of the Cantonal Council for the Alternative List since 2015 .

Fonts

Monographs:

• Life and work of Eduard Fuchs , [Zurich] 1983 DNB 213081792 (Dissertation University of Zurich, Philosophical Faculty, 1983, V, 45 pages, excerpt, complete edition in the Zurich Central Library).
• Revolution, morality and art: Eduard Fuchs - life and work. Limmat, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-85791-088-7 ( digitized version ; PDF; 864 kB) (dissertation University of Zurich, Philosophical Faculty, 1983)
• Traveling people - persecuted and ostracized. Yenish résumés. Limmat, Zurich 1987; 2nd edition 1990, ISBN 3-85791-135-2 . ( Digital version ; PDF, 262 pages, 856 KB)
• with Regula Ludi : Roma, Sinti, Yeniche. Swiss gypsy policy at the time of National Socialism. Chronos, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-0340-0623-3 .
• Institution admissions, marriage bans, kidnapping, sterilization, castration. Welfare, coercive measures, “eugenics” and psychiatry in Zurich between 1890 and 1970. Social Department of the City of Zurich, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-908060-13-3 .
• Diagnosis: "morally defective". Castration, sterilization and racial hygiene in the service of Swiss social policy and psychiatry 1890–1970. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-280-06003-6 . ( Digitized ; PDF; 286 pages, 762 kB)
• with Martin Schuppli, Fabian Biasio: Changes in an Institution. From the men's home to the factory and residential building. Werk- und Wohnhaus zur Weid, Mettmenstetten 2003, ISBN 3-9522643-0-X .
• Compulsory welfare measures in Adliswil 1890–1970. Gesowip, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-906129-34-9 .
• with Peter Niederhäuser : 800 years of Kappel Monastery: Abbey, poor institution, educational center. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-280-06074-2 .
• A medical dissertation on the death of an eleven-year-old contract child in Rorschach , 2009, ( digitized PDF, 7 pages, 455 KB.).
• with Ruth Ammann and Jos Schmid: Faces of administrative care / Visages de l'internement administratif , portraits of those affected / Portraits de personnes concernées. Publication of the independent expert commission for the scientific review of administrative care before 1981 , Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1511-0
• with Anne-Françoise Praz, Lorraine Odier, Laura Schneider, Marco Nardone: "... je vous fais une lettre" , Retrouver dans les archives la parole et le vécu des personnes internées / The voice of internees in the archives, publications independent Expert commission for the scientific review of administrative care before 1981 , Volume 4, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1514-1
• with Lorraine Odier, Anne-Françoise Praz, Laura Schneider, Marco Nardone: "... this is how you are thrown into the hole" , sources on the history of administrative care - Histoire de l'internement administratif: sources - Storia dell'internamento amministrativo: fonti , Publications Independent Commission of Experts for the Scientific Review of Administrative Care Before 1981 , Volume 9, Chronos, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-0340-1519-6

Editions

• Eduard Fuchs : Illustrated moral history. Abbreviated paperback edition in 6 volumes. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-596-24331-9 .
• with Loretta Seglias and Marco Leuenberger: Report on the conference of former contract children, children in care and foster children on November 28, 2004 in Glattbrugg near Zurich. Wildgans, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-9523118-0-4 .
• with Marc Furrer, Kevin Heiniger, Sabine Jenzer and Anne-Françoise Praz: Care and Coercion: Outsourcing of Children and Adolescents in Switzerland 1850–1980. Schwabe, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-7965-3301-3 .
• with Markus Notter , Anne-Françoise Praz, Loretta Seglias, Gisela Hauss, Martin Lengwiler, Jacques Gasser, Lukas Gschwend, Beat Gnädinger, members of the Independent Expert Commission on the Scientific Review of Administrative Care Before 1981 : Report in 10 volumes. Chronos, Zurich 2019

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Huonker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Thomas Huonker
• Website of the research project Children's Homes Switzerland by Thomas Huonker

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry about Thomas Huonker in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland , accessed on October 5, 2013.
2. ↑ Thomas Huonker on the website of the Swiss Society for History, accessed on October 5, 2013.
3. ↑ [1]
4. ↑ Mario Gsell: Thomas Huonker: "We have to respect the Yeniche". In: Swiss Observer . 2/01, accessed October 5, 2013.
5. ↑ Erachmiel Tschernobrow: About a tumor of the adrenal gland in an 11-year-old boy with premature sexual development 1919, DNB 571317294 (dissertation University of Zurich 1919, 28 pages)