Hans A. Huber

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Hans Armin Huber (born May 12, 1909 in Frauenfeld ; † April 25, 2007 ibid, authorized to reside there) was a Swiss general staff officer and publisher of the Thurgauer Zeitung . He was best known for his commitment to spiritual national defense .

biography

Huber was the son of the newspaper publisher Hans Huber and completed primary school in Frauenfeld and high school in St. Gallen . During his apprenticeship he spent the holidays as a reporter on foot in Corsica , which was still completely undeveloped at the time . He also traversed the battlefields of the First World War with his camera - from Hartmannsweilerkopf in the Vosges via Metz and Verdun to Flanders .

Huber's first marriage was to Paula Wagner († 1970 in a traffic accident, one daughter), and his second, from 1973, to Maria von Hohenzollern . He was a nephew of the former editor-in-chief and publishing director of the Thurgauer Zeitung , Councilor of States Rudolf Huber.

Thurgau newspaper

After long years of wandering in Switzerland, France, England and Germany, Huber joined the management and board of directors of Huber & Co. AG, the company of his grandfather and father (publisher of the Thurgauer Zeitung ). Until 1977 he was managing director and vice president of Huber & Co. AG. From 1970 to 1982 he was a member of the board of directors and the committee of the Swiss Dispatch Agency .

politics

Huber was a councilor for the city of Frauenfeld ( legislature ) for six years . In 1950 he joined the administrative board of the Frauenfeld community , was a citizen clerk until 1957 and president from 1957 to 1983. Then he was elected an honorary member and thus an honorary citizen of the city of Frauenfeld. In 1966 he was a co-signer of the “Declaration on Vietnam” (together with 91 co-signers, including many journalists, including Willy Bretscher ).

Military career

Huber was drafted into the Swiss army in 1929 and trained as an artilleryman . He rose to the rank of Colonel i Gst . From 1939 to 1942 he was in command of a field battery , from 1949 in command of the Haubitz Department 20 and from 1956 in command of the Heavy Cannon Regiment 17. After the end of the war, he voted for the maintenance of the Army and House Section , which is an important part of the spiritual national defense Had played a role. However, it was liquidated in 1947. In 1947 Huber and others founded the Swiss Reconnaissance Service (SAD, renamed the Swiss Working Group for Democracy in 1982) and was its first president until 1963. When the army sector was reactivated after the Hungarian uprising in 1956 at the height of the Cold War he took his first courses there and was head of the section from 1969 to 1974. After the war he was president of the Frauenfelder and later of the Thurgau officers' society. He was on the board of the Swiss Officers' Society for six years.

Works

  • Intellectual national defense in the revolutionary war. Huber, Frauenfeld 1962, DNB 128105607 .
  • Army and House. Then and now. An overview of the origins, development and current tasks. Huber, Frauenfeld 1974.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Ruprecht: Obituary for Hans Armin Huber. Thurgauer Jahrbuch, accessed on April 29, 2020 .
  2. ^ On the 90th birthday of Hans A. Huber. In: Thurgauer Zeitung. May 12, 1999, p. 19.
  3. ↑ Bürgergemeinde Frauenfeld: Hans Armin Huber. In: Thurgauer Zeitung . April 27, 2007, p. 46.
  4. ^ The protest actions against the Vietnam War. A clarification. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 10, 1966, p. 29.
  5. ^ Werner Hagmann: Swiss Reconnaissance Service (SAD). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  6. ^ Heinz Ruprecht: In memory of Hans A. Huber. In: Thurgauer Zeitung. April 28, 2007, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Hans A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huber, Hans Armin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss general staff officer and publisher of the "Thurgauer Zeitung"
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Frauenfeld
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2007
Place of death Frauenfeld