Valentin Gitermann

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Valentin Gitermann (born June 4, 1900 in Uman ( Ukraine ); † June 21, 1965 in Zurich ) was a Swiss historian , constitutional law teacher , history teacher , editor , politician ( SP ) and economic historian .

Giterman was of Ukrainian origin and lived in Switzerland from 1907 . He was among other things editor of the socialist monthly magazine Rote Revue and from 1943 a member of the National Council .

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He came in 1900 as the son of the teacher Marcus Gitermann (1879–1935) and his wife Chaja Mindlja Lwowna, nee. Seidmann - called Klara (1878–1945), born in the city of Uman. His father was persecuted as a social democrat in the tsarist empire. In 1905 the family fled to Berlin and in 1907 to Switzerland. Gitermann attended schools in Zurich and then studied history, constitutional law, art history and psychology in Zurich, Berlin and Warsaw from 1919 to 1923. In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked as a teacher, first from 1924 to 1929 at the commercial school of the Commercial Association and until 1931 at the Minerva Institute. After all, from 1932 to 1965 he taught history and social issues at the Zurich Girls' School . He gave lectures on workers' education and gave courses at the community college. In 1930 he joined the SP , sat on the education committee of the SP Zurich from 1931 to 1962 and was editor of the party magazine Rote Revue from 1946 to 1952 . From 1944 to 1965 he represented the SP in the National Council as the successor to Ernst Nobs . There he was involved in a total of 94 commissions. In his political work, he mainly dealt with cultural and socio-political issues. His research topics as a historian included the history of Russia and Switzerland, taking an economic and social-historical approach.

Gitermann was married three times, from 1925 to Stefania Feigenbaum, from 1934 to Hedwig Oechsli and from 1950 to the actress Lilian Westphal . He is the father of the Swiss journalist Isabel Baumberger.

He found his final resting place in the Nordheim cemetery in Zurich , at the side of his parents. The grave still exists today (as of February 2017).

Publications (selection)

  • The historical tragedy of the socialist idea. Oprecht, Zurich 1939.
  • History of Switzerland. Augustin-Verlag, Thayngen-Schaffhausen 1941.
  • And after the war? : International problems of the post-war period. Oprech, Zurich 1944.
  • History of Russia. 3 volumes, Gutenberg Book Guild, Zurich 1944–49.
  • The Russian Revolution. Contribution in: Golo Mann (Ed.): Propylaea World History, Volume 9: The Twentieth Century. , Propylaen-Verlag, Berlin Frankfurt am Main 1960. ISBN 3 549 05017 8 .

literature

  • Obituary in: Volksrecht . June 22, 1965.
  • Obituary in: Tages-Anzeiger . June 26, 1965.
  • Obituary in: Rote Revue . 1965, No. 7/8.
  • Hadrien Buclin: Entre culture du consensus et critique sociale. Les intellectuels de gauche dans la Suisse de l'après-guerre. Lausanne 2015 (dissertation).
  • Bernadette Ilari-Kopp: Valentin Gitermann (1900–1965). Zurich 1986 (licensed thesis; with catalog raisonné).
  • Roland Aegerter: The development of historical East European studies in Switzerland until 1971. Zurich 1988, pp. 62–69 (licensing thesis).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Markus Bürgi: Valentin Gitermann. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ↑ Gitermann, Valentin In: Fritz Hofer, Sonja Hägeli: Zurich Personenlexikon. Artemis, Zurich 1986. Retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 206.
  3. ^ Robert Savary: Dr Valentin Gitermann. In: Find a Grave . February 24, 2017, accessed April 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gitermann, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss teachers, historians and politicians (SP)
DATE OF BIRTH June 4th 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Uman (Ukraine)
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1965
Place of death Zurich