Heinrich Rengel

Heinrich Rengel (* 1907 ; † 1979 ) was the company commander of the Freiämter Battalion 46 and one of the pioneers of the Swiss frontist movement , founder and president of the Federal Combat Party (EKP).

Life

The trained gardener joined Migros in 1931 and became one of the closest employees of Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler . Later he took over the management of the Basel Migros branches. In 1957 Heinrich Rengel left Migros and became involved in the fruit and vegetable trade. In 1962 he founded his own company in Oensingen .

In Fusilier Battalion 46 he led the first company from 1940 to 1945, from 1946 he was battalion commander, from 1954 deputy commander of the 24th infantry regiment.

He was active in the front movement from 1940, the year his party was founded. In 1942 he succeeded in rallying a following especially in Muri and the surrounding area because of his charisma and his appearance. The Federal Fighting Party was the only frontist party or movement that could achieve a certain importance in the Catholic-Conservative Freiamt, something that not even the otherwise strongest and largest right-wing extremist Swiss party, the National Front , had managed in those years .

source

• Aargauer Zeitung , February 3, 2010 edition

Web links

• Tobias Holzer: Frontism and bourgeois politics in Muri AG 1933–1942. In: Argovia . Vol. 121 (2009), pp. 114–144 ( PDF; 230 kB ).