Gustav Däniker (Major)

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Gustav Albert Däniker (born August 26, 1928 in Walenstadt ; † September 1, 2000 in Genolier ) was a Swiss division general , entrepreneur and military journalist .

Life

Däniker was born as the son of the officer Gustav Däniker sen. Born in Walenstadt in Switzerland and graduated from schools in Zurich . After studying history and German at the University of Zurich , Däniker received his doctorate in 1954 under Leonhard von Muralt . In the following years, Däniker took postgraduate courses at the Benedetto Croce Institute in Naples .

From 1956 to 1980 he was an employee and later director and partner of the PR agency Rudolf Farner in Zurich . In 1975 he was 27th in rank to colonel and commander of the Zurich extract Infantry Regiment In the 1964 on the Expo 64 featured, later Oscar-nominated short film Wehrhafte Switzerland worked on the script with Däniker. With his 1966 publication "Strategy of the Small State", Däniker made a name for himself as a pointed advocate of Swiss nuclear weapons.

From 1980 to 1988 Däniker served as a career officer Major General and Chief of Staff, Operational Training (SCOS) of the Swiss army . At the same time he was Deputy Chief of Staff. Däniker played a key role in drafting the security reports of 1973, 1990 and 2000 as well as in the Army XXI project. After his resignation as SCOS, Däniker continued to work as a consultant for the military department.

Däniker is regarded as a pioneer of the opening of Switzerland's security policy and as a leading military journalist and strategic thinker.

Fonts

  • Small state strategy . 1966.
  • Swiss strategies of self-assertion in the Cold War: From the workshop of the chief of staff Operational training during the 1980s. Huber, Frauenfeld 1996.

literature

  • Heller, Daniel / Brunner, Dominique / Däniker Furtwängler, Catherine / Däniker, Marie-Claire: Strategy. Contributions to security policy, corporate governance and communication. Festival ceremony for Gustav Däniker on the occasion of his 65th birthday , Zurich 1993.
  • Näf, Beat: The conceptual development of Swiss security policy in the time of its creation 1969-1973 , Zurich 1981 (Small studies on political science of the University of Zurich, Ed .: Research Center for Political Science, No. 201/02).
  • Köppel, Thomas: On the way to a dual strategy. The emergence of Swiss security policy 1945-1973 , licentiate thesis, Zurich 1994 (unpublished).
  • Metzler, Dominique Benjamin: The Option of Nuclear Arming for the Swiss Army (1945-1969) , Licentiate Thesis, Basel 1995 (unpublished).
  • Richner, Andreas: Panzer, Mirages and the Nuclear Option. The role of the association for the promotion of the will to serve and defense science in the formation of military-political opinion in Switzerland 1956-1966 , licentiate thesis, Bern 1996 (unpublished).
  • Amrhein, Jens: From Nuclear Deterrence to Dissuasion Strategy. The military thinking of the military journalist and strategy expert Gustav Däniker 1960-1975 , licentiate thesis, Zurich 2007 (unpublished).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Gustav Däniker jun. In: Archives for Contemporary History. Retrieved April 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ Atomic power Switzerland
personal data
SURNAME Danish, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danish, Gustav Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss military journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Walenstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2000
Place of death Genolier