Local defense

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Federal armband
Upper arm badge of the local defense from 1949, with halberd

The local guard ( French gardes locales , Italian guardie locali ) of the Swiss army were set up from 1940. On January 1, 1941, seven months after it was founded, there were already 2835 local brigades, with a total of 127,563 people. The local guard was dissolved in 1967.

Swiss men were generally classified militarily up to the age of 60, from 1960 up to the age of 50. If they were not fit enough, they served in the auxiliary service of the armed forces, if they were unfit for service they served in civil defense . From 1939, women could volunteer for the women's service of the army.

Volunteer men and women who were not compulsory could report to the local armed forces if they were at least 16 years old. At the beginning they were only equipped with an armband as a uniform and strengthened the regular armed forces at the local level. Men were armed or carried private weapons, women had no combat function and were unarmed. The local army had combatant status .

See also

literature

  • Oscar Fritschi : Intellectual national defense during the Second World War: The contribution of the Swiss army to maintaining the will to persevere. Stocker-Schmid, Dietikon 1972.
  • Ernest Léderrey: Guide for the local police. Räber, Lucerne 1944.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Herzig: The decision on the local defense . In: Schweizer Soldat: Monthly magazine for the army and cadres with FHD newspaper. Volume 37, Issue 24 1961-1962
  2. ^ Abolition of the local defense . Magazine The Fourier. Official body of the Swiss Fourier Association and the Association of Swiss Fourier Assistants. Volume 40, Issue 10 1967