Werner Ganz

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Werner Ganz (born on March 16, 1902 in Zurich ; died on September 16, 1995 in Winterthur ) was a Swiss historian , middle school teacher , university professor , author , publicist and politician . He was the author of the city history of Winterthur, published in 1960 and 1979 in two parts.

biography

Werner Ganz was born in 1902 as the son of pastor and dean Julius Ganz. From 1914 to 1920 he attended high school in Zurich. He then studied history , art history , German literary history and historical auxiliary sciences in Zurich and Paris . Like his father and two of his brothers, Werner Ganz also joined the Swiss Zofinger Association during his student days , to which he remained connected throughout his life. In 1925 he completed his studies with a dissertation on economic history from the Grossmünsterstift , with which he was awarded a doctorate in philosophy .

After graduating from the university, Ganz was called to the Kantonsschule Winterthur as an assistant teacher for history, German and Latin, which at that time was still in the building of today's Oskar Reinhart Museum . After three years he was employed there as the main teacher and stayed with the school until 1969. From 1940 to 1972, Ganz worked as a private lecturer , from 1949 he was titular professor for Swiss history and Swiss constitutional history at the University of Zurich .

As a local historian , Ganz headed the Historisch-Antiquaristenverein Winterthur from 1938 to 1957, and as its president he is the founding father of the Lindengut Local History Museum, which opened in 1956 . In 1960 the first volume of his standard work on the history of the city of Winterthur was published, which covers the development of Winterthur up to 1798. The second volume, which continues the history of the town up to the town union, was published in 1979.

Ganz was also politically active and joined the FDP Winterthur shortly after his election as main teacher , for which he sat from 1942 to 1956 in the large municipal council and which he chaired from 1952 to 1956. From 1934 to 1943 he was also a member of the Winterthur Old Town Church Administration. At cantonal level he was a member of the archives commission from 1935 to 1971, of the monument preservation commission from 1947 to 1972 and of the church synod from 1938 to 1951.

Following the example of his academic teacher, the historian and professor Karl Meyer , who was part of the Spiritual National Defense movement , Ganz vehemently campaigned against so-called "conformist tendencies" towards National Socialist Germany in the 1930s and 1940s . During the Second World War he also did active service in the Swiss Army , where he held the position and degree of Fourier .

Honors

Ganz received the following awards for his work:

Works (selection)

  • The Tobler family of Zurich, 1626–1926: A historical study. Report house printing press, Zurich 1928.
  • Johann Heinrich Steiner, bookseller and politician, 1747–1827. In: 271st New Year's sheet of the Winterthur City Library . Book printing company Geschwister Ziegler & Co., Winterthur 1937.
  • French-federal alliance negotiations 1725–1733 . In: Journal of Swiss History . Vol. 20, H. 3/4. Gebrüder Leemann & Co., Zurich 1940, p. 297-391 .
  • Jonas Furrer von Winterthur 1805–1861, first Swiss Federal President - a picture of life . on behalf of the City Council of Winterthur. by Emanuel Dejung, Alfred Stähli, Werner Ganz. In: 271st New Year's sheet of the Winterthur City Library . Gemsberg-Verlag, Winterthur 1948 (together with Emanuel Dejung and Alfred Stähli).
  • Winterthur. Introduction to its history from the beginning to 1798. In: 292nd New Year's sheet of the Winterthur City Library . Buchdruckerei Winterthur, Winterthur 1960.
  • History of the city of Winterthur from the breakthrough of the Helvetic Republic in 1798 to the city union in 1922. Verlag W. Vogel, Winterthur 1979.

literature

  • Renato Esseiva: Werner Ganz - the "father" of the Lindengut Museum. In: Winterthur City Library (ed.): From bronze hatchet to toilet bowl. 50 years of the Lindengut Museum in Winterthur (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 338). Chronos Verlag , Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-0340-0840-2 , pp. 128–129.
  • Jürg Leonhard Muraro: Quite, Werner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Jürg Leonhard Muraro: Prof. Dr. Werner Ganz (1902-1995). In: Zürcher Taschenbuch. 118th volume, 1998, pp. 357-362.
  • Peter Stadler : Research for Winterthur. Adjunct professor Werner Ganz dies. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , July 21, 1995, p. 46.
  • Peter Stadler: Professor Dr. Werner Ganz. In: University of Zurich (ed.): Annual report 1995/96. Zurich 1996, p. 187.
  • Rolf Weiss: For Werner Ganz's 80th birthday. In: Office for Culture of the City of Winterthur (ed.): Winterthurer Yearbook 1983. Winterthur Printing Works , Winterthur 1983, pp. 29–32.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürg Leonhard Muraro: Prof. Dr. Werner Ganz (1902-1995). In: Zürcher Taschenbuch. Volume 118, 1998, p. 358.
  2. ↑ Werner Ganz: In the Sihlwald on October 26, 1968. A speech in advance of the 150th anniversary of the Swiss Zofinger Association. In: Centralblatt of the Swiss Zofinger Association . 109th Volume, No. 2, 1968, pp. 91-96.
  3. ↑ Werner Ganz: Zofingia and politics. A reminiscence. In: Centralblatt of the Swiss Zofinger Association. 128th Volume, No. 3, 1988, pp. 167-170.
  4. ^ Werner Ganz: Contributions to the economic history of the Grossmünsterstift in Zurich. W. Coradi-Maag printing press, Zurich 1925.
  5. ↑ Jürg Leonhard Muraro: Ganz, Werner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  6. ↑ Jürg Leonhard Muraro: Prof. Dr. Werner Ganz (1902-1995). In: Zürcher Taschenbuch. Volume 118, 1998, pp. 358-359.
  7. ^ University of Zurich: Annual Report 1940/41. Art. Institut Orell Füssli AG, Zurich 1941, p. 23.
  8. ^ University of Zurich: Annual Report 1949/50. Art. Institut Orell Füssli AG, Zurich 1950, p. 22.
  9. ^ University of Zurich: Annual Report 1972/73. Institut Orell Füssli AG, Zurich 1973, p. 29.
  10. ^ Renato Esseiva: Werner Ganz - the "father" of the Lindengut Museum. In: Winterthur City Library (ed.): From bronze hatchet to toilet bowl. 50 years of the Museum Lindengut Winterthur (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 338). Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2006, ISBN 978-3-0340-0840-2 , pp. 128–129.
  11. ^ Rolf Weiss: On the 80th birthday of Werner Ganz. In: Office for Culture of the City of Winterthur (ed.): Winterthurer yearbook 1983. Winterthur printing works, Winterthur 1983, pp. 30–31.
  12. ↑ Jürg Leonhard Muraro: Prof. Dr. Werner Ganz (1902-1995). In: Zürcher Taschenbuch. 118th year, 1998, pp. 360-361.
  13. ↑ In memory of Prof. Dr. Werner Ganz. In: Kantonsschule Im Lee (ed.): Annual report 1994/95. Winterthur 1995, pp. 11-12.
  14. ↑ Jürg Leonhard Muraro: Ganz, Werner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  15. ↑ In memory of Prof. Dr. Werner Ganz. In: Kantonsschule Im Lee (ed.): Annual report 1994/95. Winterthur 1995, p. 12.
  16. ^ University of Zurich: Annual report 1960/61. Art. Institut Orell Füssli AG, Zurich 1961, p. 23.
  17. ^ Rolf Weiss: On the 80th birthday of Werner Ganz. In: Office for Cultural Affairs of the City of Winterthur (Ed.): Winterthurer Yearbook 1983. Winterthur Printing Works, Winterthur 1983, p. 31.
  18. ^ Rolf Weiss: On the 80th birthday of Werner Ganz. In: Office for Cultural Affairs of the City of Winterthur (Ed.): Winterthurer Yearbook 1983. Winterthur Printing Works, Winterthur 1983, p. 31.
  19. ↑ Jürg Leonhard Muraro: Prof. Dr. Werner Ganz (1902-1995). In: Zürcher Taschenbuch. Volume 118, 1998, p. 362.
personal data
SURNAME Quite, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1995
Place of death Winterthur