Willy Bretscher

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Willy Bretscher (born October 26, 1897 in Winterthur ; † January 12, 1992 in Zurich ) was a Swiss journalist . Bretscher was best known as the long - time editor -in- chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

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Bretscher was born in 1897 as the son of a long-established farming family in the Zürcher Weinland. After attending school in Olten and attending the commercial school of the Commercial Association in Winterthur , from which he graduated with a diploma, Bretscher studied constitutional and international law at the University of Zurich . 1914–1916 he completed a traineeship at the Neuen Winterthurer Tagblatt . In 1917 he joined the staff of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as a member of the domestic editorial team .

From 1925 to 1929 he reported as a correspondent for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from Berlin , where he supported Gustav Stresemann's policy of understanding . In 1933 he became editor-in-chief of the NZZ and a member of the leadership of the Free Democratic Party of the Canton of Zurich . Bretscher managed to maintain the position of the NZZ through the crises of the 1930s, the Second World War and the post-war period and to maintain the position of the newspaper as one of the leading European press organs. In 1967 he resigned from the management of the NZZ. Fred Luchsinger became the new editor-in-chief .

As a politician, he was active in the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland, in which he was temporarily president of the party's internal foreign policy committee. From 1947 to 1955 he was a member of the Education Council of the Canton of Zurich, and from 1951 to 1967 he was also a member of the Swiss National Council, in which he was particularly concerned with foreign policy issues.

From 1945 to 1971 he was a member of the board of directors of the Swiss Dispatch Agency .

At the international level, Bretscher emerged as Vice President of the Liberal World Union and co-founder of the Atlantic Institute. In 1967 he also took over the chairmanship of the Swiss Winston Churchill Foundation.

In his private life, Bretscher, who was married to Hedwig Wohlwend, worked as an angler and skat player .

honors and awards

On the occasion of his 60th birthday, Bretscher was honored with the commemorative publication responsibility . On his 70th birthday, his editorial colleagues dedicated the festschrift Our Newspaper to him .

Fonts

  • Seventy editorials .
  • Swiss foreign policy in the post-war period .
  • The Defense of the West .
  • The fight for Berlin .
  • Soviet Russia after Stalin's death and condemnation .

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personal data
SURNAME Bretscher, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1992
Place of death Zurich