Hans Rudolf Fuhrer

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Hans Rudolf Fuhrer (born May 9, 1941 in Uitikon , Canton of Zurich ) is a Swiss military historian and officer ( Colonel a D).

Life

Fuhrer studied pedagogy, military history and Swiss history and was trained in 1982 by Walter Schaufelberger at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Zurich with a dissertation on espionage against Switzerland. The secret German intelligence services against Switzerland in World War II for Dr. phil. PhD.

Until 1990 he was a seminar teacher in the training of teachers for the secondary level at the University of Zurich. He completed his habilitation with the thesis The Swiss Army in World War I. Threat, national defense and national fortification . Then he was a lecturer in military history at the Military Academy of the ETH Zurich and private lecturer at the University of Zurich until 2006 .

Fuhrer published several books on military history. He was active as a tour guide and board member in the Swiss Society for Military History Study Tours. In 2014 he became an honorary member of the society.

In addition to several books, he also published articles in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

In addition, he holds the rank of colonel retired.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Espionage against Switzerland. The secret German intelligence services against Switzerland in the Second World War 1939–1945 . Huber, Frauenfeld 1982, ISBN 3-274-00003-5 .
  • Church in the Army. The development of the field ministry 1874–1914 . Theological Publishing House, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-290-11564-X .
  • The development of Swiss neutrality after 1945. Lecture given on the occasion of the ordinary general assembly of «Schweizerzeit» Verlag AG on May 24th, 2000 on the Zürichsee ship «MS Pfannenstiel» (= Schweizerzeit publication series , no. 36). Schweizerzeit Verlag, Flaach 200, ISBN 3-907983-36-X .
  • The Swiss Army in the First World War. Threat, national defense and national fortification . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-03823-018-9 . (3rd edition, 2008)
  • with Christian Moser: Zwingli's long shadow. Zurich, the French pay alliance and federal alliance policy, 1500–1650 . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-03823-503-3 .
  • All red arrows came from the east - right? The image and the threat to Switzerland 1945–1966 in the light of Eastern archives (= The Swiss General Staff , Volume 11). Hier + Jetzt, Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-03919-165-9 .

Editorships

  • with Paul Meinrad Strässle: General Ulrich Wille. Example for one - enemy for the other . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85823-998-4 .
  • with Robert-Peter Eyer: Swiss in “foreign service”. Glorified and condemned . Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2006, ISBN 3-03-823196-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winterthur according to Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online.
  2. ↑ Hans Rudolf Fuhrer: The Swiss Army in World War I: Threat, National Defense and National Fortification , 1999, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Fuhrer, Hans Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss military historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Uitikon , Canton of Zurich