Rolf Henne

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Rolf Henne (born October 7, 1901 in Schaffhausen ; † July 27, 1966 in Küsnacht ; resident in Sargans and Schaffhausen), actually Rudolf Henne , was a Swiss politician ( National Front ) and entrepreneur. From 1934 to 1938 he was party leader of the National Front.

Life

Rudolf Henne grew up as the son of a doctor in Schaffhausen. He studied law in Zurich and Heidelberg and practiced as a lawyer in Schaffhausen for seven years. In addition, he published various writings. Until 1933 he was close to the Free Democratic Party , of which he was a member.

Ideologically, however, Henne was particularly close to the NSDAP and fell away from liberalism . In the canton of Schaffhausen he founded the New Front and stood in the election of the Council of States in 1933 and won 27% of the votes. In 1934 he became leader of the National Front and radicalized this party towards a National Socialist ideology. In doing so, he finally put them on an open line of confrontation against the existing political system in Switzerland. In 1937 he visited the Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg .

Under Henne, the National Front increasingly lost its influence. In 1938 Robert Tobler took over the leadership of the party, and Henne resigned from all party positions. He then wrote articles for the national notebooks of the front movement and was its editor from 1940 to 1943.

In 1944 he became manager of the press service newspaper Magnifier in Zurich, which was merged with the Argus of the press in 1948 . Together with his brother Alex Henne, he was managing director of the company that is still active today until his death.

Rudolf Henne was the great-grandson of the historian Anton Henne .

Fonts

  • The English concept of freedom . Zurich 1927. (Dissertation)
  • Essays . Küsnacht: self-published in 1963.

literature

  • Beat Glaus: The National Front. A Swiss fascist movement 1930–1940 . Benziger, Zurich / Einsiedeln / Cologne 1969 (also dissertation at the University of Basel ).
  • Matthias Wipf: Frontism in a border town - Schaffhausen in the Second World War 1933–1945 . Univ. Bern, Hist. Institute, Ms. (90 pages), Bern 1998 (location: Schaffhausen City Archives).
  • Walter Wolf: Fascism in Switzerland. The history of the front movements in German-speaking Switzerland 1930–1945 . Flamberg / Zurich 1969 (also dissertation at the University of Zurich ).
  • Klaus-Dieter Zöberlin: The beginnings of German-Swiss frontism. The development of the political associations New Front and National Front up to their merger in spring 1933. Meisenheim 1970.

Web links

swell

  • ETH Archive for Contemporary History, Rolf Henne estate
  • Berne Federal Archives, Rolf Henne personal dossier, E 4320 (B) 1970-25-56 / C.2.433

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Walter Wolf: Henne, Rolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Hen, Rolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henne, Rudolf (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politicians (National Front)
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1966
Place of death Küsnacht