Hans Bühler (businessman)

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Hans Werner Bühler (* July 12, 1941 in Uster ; † July 27, 2018 in Zurich ) was a Swiss seller for the manufacturer of encryption devices Crypto AG .

Life

Hans Bühler attended the business school in Neuchâtel in 1958. He trained as a telegraph operator at the Swiss Post (then PTT) until 1962 and then worked for four years as a radio operator on ocean-going ships for the Suisse Atlantique SA of the Lausanne-based Andre Group. In 1967/1968 he studied ship electronics in England at the College of Technology in Hull and Southampton and as a shipping clerk in Germany. In 1969 and 1970 he worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Nigeria and Yemen. Hans Bühler worked for five years in the deep-sea fisheries in Kuwait and Senegal and in 1976/77 managed deep-sea fishing bases in Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and Alabama as fleet manager. In 1978 he attended a management school at Plymouth Polytechnic. From 1979 he was employed as a sales engineer at the encryption device company Crypto AG , Steinhausen ZG ; then worldwide sales activity for thirteen years.

From March 18, 1992, Bühler spent 292 days in prison in Tehran on charges of espionage . Initially, Crypto refused to pay the deposit of 1 million francs required by the Iranians. Shortly after his release, Bühler was fired by his employer and obliged to keep silent in return for a cash payment. As it later turned out, Bühler had not known anything about the equipment manipulated as part of Operation Rubicon and had begun to express himself critical of the process to the media. He then worked for the Swiss Center for Trade Promotion and until retirement at the French computer company Bull .

Bühler was a radio amateur with the callsign "HB9XJ". His wife Verena Blumer Bühler died in 2015.

literature

Video

Crypto AG in Zug - Switzerland on a secret mission , Swiss radio and television. 2020

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries. In: todesangeboteportal.ch. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 1 million for freedom? In: Thuner Tagblatt. January 6, 1993, p. 3 , accessed February 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Une ambiance mouvementée oppose CryptoAG et Hans Buhler. In: Le Nouveau Quotidien. July 6, 1994, p. 9 , accessed February 24, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Monique Ryser: Crypto AG: Switzerland in league with the CIA. In: infosperber .ch. February 12, 2020, accessed February 16, 2020 .
  5. ^ Stefan Kundert: In memory of Hans Bühler (1941–2018). In: sigs.ch. August 2018, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Tragedy of a Technician , Tages-Anzeiger, February 12, 2020
  7. ↑ Crypto AG in Zug - Switzerland on a secret mission (1/5) - TV. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bühler, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bühler, Hans Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss seller for the manufacturer of encryption devices Crypto AG
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Uster
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2018
Place of death Zurich