Friedrich Nyffenegger

Friedrich Ernst "Fritz" Nyffenegger (born November 6, 1936 ; † August 28, 2011 in Locarno ; resident in Oberthal and Oberhofen am Thunersee ) was a colonel in the general staff of the Swiss Army .

Nyffenegger was at the center of a scandal because of financial irregularities in the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the mobilization of the Swiss army in 1989 (so-called diamond celebrations) and because secret data had disappeared. After indictment by federal prosecutor Carla Del Ponte , he was on 29 October 1999 by the Federal Criminal Court in Lausanne because of multiple embezzlement , forgery sentenced in office and multiple fraud to six months imprisonment on probation. On July 5, 2000, he was sentenced to four months conditionally by the Military Court of Appeals for violating military secrets.

A study commissioned by the then Federal Councilor Adolf Ogi , Head of the Federal Military Department (EMD) , revealed in 1996 that the “lack of control and guidance by superiors” had contributed to the Nyffenegger affair. The then Chief of Staff Arthur Liener drew the conclusions and took early retirement.

Nyffenegger was married three times and had four children.

Web links

• Colonel Nyffenegger is dead , Tages-Anzeiger , August 30, 2011
• The careless one. On the death of Colonel General Friedrich Nyffenegger , NZZ , August 30, 2011
• The Friedrich Nyffenegger affair: Colonel Chaos , in NZZ , January 25, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Nyffenegger, Friedrich E.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Infocube, Orell Füssli Business Information, accessed on September 6, 2011.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} "Mischler-Fritz" is dead. Blick.ch , August 30, 2011, accessed on June 25, 2019.
3. ^ Nyffenegger: Mild punishment. Tages-Anzeiger , October 30, 1999.
4. ↑ Friedrich Nyffenegger after the verdict of the Military Appeal Court.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Tagesschau , July 5, 2000, accessed September 10, 2011.