Peter Baumgartner (military historian)

Peter Baumgartner (* 1944 ) is a Swiss military historian , militia officer ( Colonel in the General Staff ) and chemist .

Life

Peter Baumgartner has a doctorate in chemistry and was director at Ems-Chemie . From 1993 until his retirement in 2008 he was head of the Office for Environmental Protection (AfU) of the Canton of Graubünden . In the Swiss army he was a militia officer, most recently with the rank of colonel on the general staff.

Since 2000, he has been organizing military history study trips as a tour guide for the Swiss Society for Military History Study Tours (GMS), mainly in the canton of Graubünden, and works as an author for military history publications. As the last chief of staff of Border Brigade 12 from 1987 to 1989, he deals in particular with the maintenance and documentation of exemplary blocked positions in the former deployment area of this brigade.

Until 2015 he was involved in the Military History Foundation of Graubünden , and he is still active in the Crestawald Fortress Association and the sponsoring association of the St. Luzisteig Military Museum . In his spare time he is an active skier and mountain hiker.

Fonts

with Hans Stäbler: Fortified Graubünden. Wolves in sheep's clothing. Military History Foundation Graubünden, Chur 2006. New edition Verlag Desertina, Chur 2016, ISBN 978-3-85637-485-3 .
175 Graubünden officers' society . Festschrift, 2009.
Limits . GMS Paper No. 34, 2013.
Mountain troops . GMS Paper No. 37, 2016.

Individual evidence

^ On the retirement of Peter Baumgartner, head of the cantonal office for nature and the environment. In: Website of the Canton of Graubünden. August 27, 2008
↑ Peter Baumgartner. In: Website of the Swiss Society for Military History Study Trips (GMS)
↑ 1941. Fortified Graubünden. Peter Baumgartner. Extracts. In: Untervazer Burgenverein Untervaz: Texts on the village history of Untervaz. 2007 (PDF; 3.9 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Baumgartner, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss military historian, militia officer (Colonel in the General Staff) and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH	1944

[1] On the retirement of Peter Baumgartner, head of the cantonal office for nature and the environment. In: Website of the Canton of Graubünden. August 27, 2008

[2] Peter Baumgartner. In: Website of the Swiss Society for Military History Study Trips (GMS)

[3] 1941. Fortified Graubünden. Peter Baumgartner. Extracts. In: Untervazer Burgenverein Untervaz: Texts on the village history of Untervaz. 2007 (PDF; 3.9 MB)