Heinrich Büeler

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Heinrich Büeler (born December 12, 1901 in Cochin ; † May 19, 1985 ) was a Swiss lawyer and member of the front movement .

Life

Büeler was born in Cochin in British India , where his father managed the branch of the trading company Gebrüder Volkart in Winterthur . After finishing school in Winterthur, he studied law at the University of Zurich from 1920 to 1925 , where he received his doctorate . In 1929 he passed the bar exam . From 1920 to 1924 he was a member of the communist youth organization in Switzerland . Together with Theodor Fischer and Wolf Wirz , he founded the National Socialist Confederation in the summer of 1931 and was also a member of the National Front and the leadership group of the successor organization National Movement of Switzerland , which was banned in November 1940 . In the Bern trial he acted as Theodor Fischer's defender. Büeler worked as a freelance lawyer in Zurich from 1935 to 1941 and was active as a defender of various frontists in various criminal proceedings during this time .

In addition to his legal work, Büeler tried in spring 1941 to illegally set up a General SS in Switzerland on behalf of the head of the SS main office , which was disguised as a Swiss sports school . Then he fell from June to October 1941 in custody , but was finally against bail dismissed. In November 1941 he fled to Germany and acquired German citizenship in 1943 . He joined the General SS and the Waffen SS . In October 1943 he also completed the course for Germanic officers at the SS Junker School Tölz and then became a trainer for the replacement battalion of the French Waffen SS Grenadier Division "Charles Magne" in Sennheim . Most recently, Büeler was employed as an SS Sturmbannführer in a French SS brigade .

In February 1932 Büeler was - to six months, and in March 1944 to four years - in his absence prison convicted of endangering the independence of Switzerland. In 1945 he was deprived of his Swiss citizenship before he returned to Switzerland in 1946 and was arrested. In December 1947, in large criminal against Franz Riedweg , Heinrich Büeler and consorts , before the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Lucerne , he was sentenced to eight years in prison after all. Until February 1954 he was imprisoned in the Regensdorf prison. He then lived in Düsseldorf until 1985 , where he worked as a legal advisor at a bank until 1967 . The estate of Henry Büeler located in the Archives of Contemporary History of the ETH Zurich .

Fonts

  • The development and enforcement of Swiss popular initiative law. Dissertation University of Zurich . Zurich 1925.

literature

  • Linus Reichlin : War criminal Wipf, Eugen. Swiss in the Waffen SS, in German factories and at the desks of the Third Reich. Zurich 1994.
  • Thomas Knellwolf: traitor. Swiss National Socialists on trial 1946-1948. Unpublished thesis at the University of Zurich . Zurich 2002.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Büeler, Heinrich. Archive for Contemporary History at ETH Zurich , accessed on December 19, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Büeler, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and member of the front movement
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Cochin (city)
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1985