Gustav Däniker (Major)
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 The emergence of Swiss security policy 1945-1973 , licentiate thesis, Zurich 1994 (unpublished).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
- Hans Senn : Däniker, Gustav. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Estate in the Archive for Contemporary History (PDF).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Gustav Däniker jun. In: Archives for Contemporary History. Retrieved April 11, 2018 .
- ^ Atomic power Switzerland
personal data | |
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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 |