Eric Gujer

Eric Gujer   (editor, spook?)
Born	24 July 1962 Zurich, Switzerland
Nationality	Swiss
Alma mater	University of Freiburg, University of Cologne
Spouse	Claudia Schwartz
Member of	German Council on Foreign Relations
Spooky Swiss editor-in-chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung  Neue Zürcher Zeitung/Editor-in-Chief In office March 2015 - Present  Moscow Correspondent In office 1995 - 1998

Eric Martin Gujer is a Swiss journalist and author. He has been editor-in-chief of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) since March 2015.

Background

Eric Gujer was born in Zurich as the son of the Swiss business lawyer and entrepreneur Hans Georg Gujer and his German-born wife Johanna, but grew up in Germany. After graduating from high school, Gujer completed an internship at the Südwestfunk (SWF) in Baden-Baden between 1982 and 1984, as well as a traineeship at the newspaper Mannheimer Morgen. He then studied history, Slavic studies and political science at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and the University of Cologne.

Career

Gujer started working for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1986. Since 1989 he has worked as a correspondent for the NZZ: from 1989 to 1992 in East Berlin (covering the German Democratic Republic and since 1990 for the new federal states), from 1992 to 1995 as an Israel correspondent in Jerusalem, from 1995 to 1998 in Moscow, and from 1998 to 2008 as a Germany correspondent in Berlin. Subsequently, Gujer worked at the NZZ foreign editorial office in Zurich with a focus on Germany, European Union, international strategic issues and terrorism, in July 2013 he became the foreign editor of the NZZ. Since March 11, 2015, Gujer has been editor-in-chief of NZZ and is also responsible for the management of NZZ AG together with CEO Felix Graf.

Activities

In 2010, the then NZZ Head of Foreign Affairs Eric Gujer wrote a book about the War on Terror together with Gary J. Schmitt, the former director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

NZZ had to admit in 2015 that the new NZZ editor-in-chief "in the run-up to the drafting of the Intelligence Service Act (...) from the NDB (...) as a strategy expert (...) had been consulted". Specifically, this means that Gujer worked on the new intelligence law, which he was supposed to follow critically as a journalist. The question of whether Gujer became an official secrets carrier in the process, the NZZ spokeswoman left unanswered.

Gujer is a member of the "Intelligence Agencies discussion group in Germany". In this non-profit association, former high-ranking employees of the BND and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution meet to discuss current "security problems".

The Green National Councillor Daniel Vischer said he was "closely connected with the German BND and the CIA."

Gujer has promoted the expanded readership of the NZZ in Germany.

When Eric Gujer became editor-in-chief, he initiated a purge of the staff at the NZZ". By 2018, about half of the domestic editorial staff has left the newspaper, the same applies to the feature section. Some of the personnel changes are retirements, but the majority are layoffs or dismissals by the employees. According to former employee [Brigitte Hürlimann]], There is an "extreme fear" in the editorial staff, criticism is rarely openly expressed. This has mainly to do with Gujer's leadership style: unconventional colleagues are being replaced by malleable ones. Sometimes the editor-in-chief also intervenes directly in the paper.

Opinions

Edward Snowden is not a whistleblower, but a "traitor".

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Munich Security Conference/2012	3 February 2012	5 February 2012	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 48th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2014	31 January 2014	2 February 2014	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 50th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2015	6 February 2015	8 February 2015	Germany Munich Bavaria	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/2016	12 February 2016	14 February 2016	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 52nd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 54th Munich Security Conference
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2017	17 January 2017	20 January 2017	World Economic Forum Switzerland	2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	World Economic Forum Switzerland	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
WEF/Annual Meeting/2020	21 January 2020	24 January 2020	World Economic Forum Switzerland	This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2022	22 May 2022	26 May 2022	World Economic Forum Switzerland	1912 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/2023	16 January 2023	20 January 2023	World Economic Forum Switzerland	The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"

 

Event Witnessed

Event	Location(s)	Description
Munich Security Conference/2013	Munich Bavaria Germany	The 49th Munich Security Conference

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