Hans-Rudolf Kurz

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Hans-Rudolf Kurz (born April 23, 1915 in Bern ; † June 29, 1990 there ; entitled to live in Bern and Langnau in the Emmental ) was a Swiss military historian .

Life

The son of the grammar school teacher Albert Kurz and the later "refugee mother" Gertrud Kurz studied law at the University of Bern . In 1940 he obtained the advocacy patent for the Canton of Bern, and in 1943 he received his doctorate. He joined the federal administration and worked for the Federal Military Department from 1946 , where he held the position of deputy director from 1975 until his retirement in 1980. Briefly taught military law at the ETH Zurich . From 1973 to 1990 (from 1980 as honorary professor) he taught military history at the University of Bern. In 1987/88 he was chairman of the international commission of historians investigating the Waldheim affair .

From 1973 to 1984 Kurz was a member of the Great Citizens' Council of the Civic Community of Bern . In the Swiss Army he was a general staff officer from 1949 , and from 1963 the rank of colonel .

Fonts (selection)

  • The state's obligation to pay compensation in the event of war-economy interventions in subjective property rights. Dissertation, University of Bern, 1943.
  • Ground plan of the Swiss Army. Huber, Frauenfeld 1953.
  • Switzerland in the planning of the belligerent powers during the Second World War (= series of publications of the Swiss Association of NCOs. No. 5). Central Secretariat of the Swiss Association of NCOs, Biel 1957.
  • Switzerland in the European strategy from the Thirty Years War to the Atomic Age. Bachmann, Zurich 1959.
  • Colonel Corps Commander Theophil Spokesman von Bernegg: Personality, work, thoughts. Toggenburger Verlag, Wattwil 1961.
  • General Henri Guisan (= personality and history. Vol. 37). Musterschmidt, Zurich 1965.
  • Active service documents. Huber, Frauenfeld 1965.
  • Armed neutrality: the military importance of permanent Swiss neutrality. Huber, Frauenfeld 1967.
  • (with Hermann Lei and Hugo Schneider) The Swiss Army from the beginning to the present. Stocker / Schmid, Dietikon / Zurich 1969.
  • Documents of the border occupation 1914–1918. Huber, Frauenfeld 1970.
  • Swiss Intelligence Center: Switzerland in the intelligence service of the Second World War. Huber, Frauenfeld 1972, ISBN 3-7193-0439-6 .
  • One hundred years of the Swiss Army. Ott, Thun 1978, ISBN 3-7225-6800-5 .
  • History of the Swiss Army. Huber, Frauenfeld 1985, ISBN 3-7193-0951-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME In short, Hans-Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss military historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1990
Place of death Bern