Metadata: Research documentation of Pierre Weill
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Contemporary History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv für Zeitgeschichte der ETH Zürich
- Postal address:
- Hirschengraben 62, CH-8092 Zurich
- Phone number:
- +41 44 632 40 03
- Web address:
- https://www.afz.ethz.ch/
- Email:
- afz@history.gess.ethz.ch
- Reference number:
- FD Pierre Weill
- Title:
- Research documentation of Pierre Weill
- Title (official language):
- Forschungsdokumentation Pierre Weill
- Creator/accumulator:
- Weill, Pierre
- Date(s):
- 1998
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 36 mini audiocassettes
- Type of material:
- Audio
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises the research documentation of Pierre Weill. It includes interviews by Pierre Weill with contemporary witnesses on the subject of "dormant assets”.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ (Archives of Contemporary History) in 2017.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Pierre Weill, an economist and journalist, was born on 1 February 1955 in Langenthal (BE). He was the son of René Weill, a cattle dealer, and Marlo, née Bloch, a saleswoman. He married Claudia Berger in 1986. In 1975, Weill graduated from the Realgymnasium in Basel. Between 1975 and 1980, he studied economics at the University of Basel and in 1977/1978 at the London School of Economics. Between 1980 and 1984, he was editor at the “Tagesschau” (SRF), from 1984 to 1988, editor in chief at the Jüdische Rundschau Basel, from 1988 to 1990 economics editor at the Tagesanzeiger, from 1990 to 1994 economics correspondent in Washington DC for the Tagesanzeiger, from 1994 to 1995 editor at CASH, from 1995 to 2008 economics editor at the Basler Zeitung and from 2008 to 2018 economist and editor at the Chief Investment Office, UBS Zurich.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- Historical research
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access. Subject to application.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
