Friedrich Moritz von Wattenwyl

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Colonel Friedrich Moritz von Wattenwyl

Friedrich Moritz von Wattenwyl (born August 17, 1867 in Bern ; † July 4, 1942 there ) was a Swiss general staff officer .

Life

From Wattenwyl studied in Bern, Leipzig and Heidelberg Law and received his doctorate in 1891. After that, he was an instructor of artillery , brigade commander and staff officer. As an observer, he attended military maneuvers in Turkey , Germany and Austria-Hungary . From 1912 he was chief of the intelligence service in the general staff . In 1916, von Wattenwyl and Karl Egli were relieved of his position by the Federal Council following the Obersten affair . He then acted as a reporter for Swiss newspapers and for the General Staff on the German fronts during the First World War . From 1919 to 1923 he headed the Swiss relief organization for Austrian children. For this work he was awarded by the Austrian Red Cross .

Von Wattenwyl is the father of the later gynecologist Pierre Hubert von Wattenwyl (1907-1984) and the rose Alice Antoinette von Wattenwyl , who married the painter Balthus in 1937 , who also made a portrait of his father-in-law.

reception

On October 15, 2015, the broadcaster SRF 1 broadcast a documentary program by Hansjürg Zumstein , which sheds light on the Obersten affair in the form of a docu-drama . Von Wattenwyl is portrayed by actor Andreas Matti .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The «Oberstenaffair» - deciphering for the Central Powers in Neue Zürcher Zeitung of December 19, 2015, accessed on May 26, 2016
  2. ↑ Hans Braun: The Wattenwyl family - La famille de Watteville. Licorne, Murten Langnau 2004, p. 238, image p. 236.
personal data
SURNAME Wattenwyl, Friedrich Moritz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss general staff officer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1942
Place of death Bern