Urs Schwarz

Urs Schwarz  link (Editor)
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Born	25 February 1905
Died	12 October 1996
Nationality	Swiss
Alma mater	University of Zurich,Harvard Law School
Interests	JFK
Attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1960s as ex International Press Institute/President

Urs Schwarz was an editor for the influential Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung 1942-65. He was co-founder of the International Press Institute in 1950 and member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and its Executive Committee in London, where he was an author of papers on military-political issues.

Background

He studied Law at the University of Zurich, where he obtained a degree in 1928. After a subsequent commercial and insurance technical training, he studied in 1931, with the help of a fellowship, at Harvard Law School.

Career

From 1932 to 1934 he worked for the Zurich Insurance in Barcelona. After completing a traineeship in the editorial department of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), he worked for this important Swiss newspaper as foreign correspondent in 1935 in Paris, from 1936 to 1939 during the civil war in Spain and during the Second World War from 1940 to 1941 in Berlin, after the previous correspondent was expelled. His activity as a correspondent in Spain was marked by Franco-friendly reporting.

He was Foreign Editor in the NZZ from around 1949.

Im 1968, when he was member of the government commission for study of strategic issues, he suggested that Switzerland should prepare the scientific and technical ability to produce nuclear weapons, similarly to what Sweden did.

Publications

• John F Kennedy 1917-1963