Georg Kreis
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Georg Kreis (born November 14, 1943) is a Swiss historian. He is a professor emeritus of modern general history and history of Switzerland at the University of Basel[1] and was head of the University’s Europa Institute until July 2011. Aside from his academic duties, Kreis was the President of the Swiss Federal Commission against Racism from its founding in 1995 until 2011.[2]
He was appointed a member of the Bergier Commission of historians to investigate Switzerland’s conduct during World War II.[3] He also lead a research project financed by the Swiss Government to investigate Switzerland’s ties to Apartheid South Africa and authored the project’s final report. [4] Kreis also lead a renowned 2014 project to write an all-encompassing history of Switzerland, based on newly released archival sources. [5]
In 2006, Swiss news magazine Schweizer Illustrierte designated Kreis to be one of the 100 most important Swiss citizens of the year. [6]
Kreis was heavily criticized by members of the right-wing populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP) after he compared the Swiss minaret ban (which the party proposed and successfully campaigned for the Swiss people to vote for in a 2009 referendum) to a hypothetical SVP-initiated ban on synagogues during World War II.[7]
References
- ↑ "Profil | Departement Geschichte". dg.philhist.unibas.ch. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
- ↑ swissinfo.ch, <Gaby Ochsenbein> in Basel, (Translated from German by Julia Slater) (2011-12-19). ""The mood towards foreigners has worsened"". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland - Second World War ICE". www.uek.ch. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
- ↑ "NRP 42+ "Relations between Switzerland and South Africa"". Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-08-27.
- ↑ SwissCommunity. "A hefty tome with exquisite contents". www.swisscommunity.org. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
- ↑ "Die 100 wichtigsten Schweizer". Schweizer Illustrierte. 29 July 2006. p. 21.
- ↑ "Georg Kreis wehrt sich". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 2009-12-14. ISSN 0376-6829. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
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