Edmund Wehrli

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Edmund Wehrli also Wehrli-Bleuler (born June 8, 1904 in Zurich ; † January 7, 2002 in Zollikon ; authorized to reside in Aarau , Zollikon and Zurich) was a Swiss lawyer and officer .

Life

Family and education

The reformed baptized, originally from Zurich Edmund Wehrli, son of geologists , high school teacher and explorer Dr. phil. Leo Wehrli (1870-1954) and his Wife Anna Margaretha nee Frey (1880-1968), turned to the acquisition of the Swiss Matura at the Kantonsschule Rämibühl studying law at the University of Zurich to he 1927 with the doctorate for Dr . iur. completed. Edmund Wehrli married Gerda Hedwig (1907–1990), daughter of the renowned psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler, in Zurich in 1930 . Wehrli died in Zollikon at the beginning of 2002 at the old age of 97.

Legal background

Edmund Wehrli, employed as a lawyer since 1929 , opened his own office in 1942. Wehrli, who journalistically supported the resistance against National Socialist Germany, also acted between 1941 and 1942 as legal advisor to the Swiss-made foreign holding company of the major German concern IG Farben , since 1945 Interhandel . In his function as their lawyer, he held the office of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cilag in the post-war period .

Military career

Edmund Wehrli was accepted into the General Staff in 1937 . In 1940 Wehrli took over command of the City of Zurich Fusilier Battalion 69. The 1948 promoted to Colonel was later given command of the Winterthur 25th Infantry Regiment, and in 1965 he was released from compulsory service. The Wehrli, who is committed to a strong army, spoke out vehemently against the army abolition initiative in the 1980s.

Publications

  • The legal position of the instruction officers. Dissertation University of Zurich, Zurich 1928.
  • On the revision of military criminal law. Huber, Frauenfeld 1949.
  • Thoughts of a militiaman. With a foreword by Edgar Schumacher. Schweizer Spiegel Verlag, Zurich 1957.
  • Respect for defensive neutrality. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 7, 1983.
  • Switzerland without an army: an island of peace? In: Series of publications by the Society for Military History Study Trips. Issue No. 3, Society for Military History Study Trips (GMS), Zurich 1985.
  • Letters from active service, 1939–1941. In: Series of publications by the Society for Military History Study Trips. No. 12, Society for Military History Study Trips (GMS), Zurich 1993.

literature

  • Society Swiss monthly issues: Swiss monthly issues for politics, economy, culture. Volume 44, Verlag Leemann, Zurich, 1964.
  • Martindale-Hubbell (Firm): Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory. Volume 1, Martindale-Hubbell, Summit, NJ, 1996, p. 356.
  • Shraga Elam: Switzerland and the assets of IG Farben. In: Journal for Social History of the 20th and 21st Century. Vol. 13, no. 1, Hamburg Foundation for the Social History of the 20th Century, Hamburg 1998, pp. 61–91.
  • Swiss Officers Society: General Swiss military magazine. Volume 169, Huber, Frauenfeld 2003, p. 32.

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personal data
SURNAME Wehrli, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wehrli-Bleuler, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2002
Place of death Zollikon