Rudolf Gerber (lawyer)

Rudolf Gerber (born April 13, 1928 in Brugg ; † August 2, 2019 near Bern ; legal resident in Langnau BE and Dübendorf ) was a Swiss lawyer .

Life

Gerber was the son of the director of the Dübendorf military airfield Fritz Hermann Gerber and Alice Gerber nee Simmen. After graduating from high school in Zurich, he did an internship in publishing and studied law in Zurich and Paris . In 1957 he acquired the title of Dr. iur. From 1960 he was district attorney in Horgen and Zurich, from 1968 public prosecutor in Zurich. From 1974 to 1989 he was Federal Prosecutor , i.e. head of the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office. In 1976 he arranged for the arrest of Brigadier Jean-Louis Jeanmaire , the so-called "Jeanmaire Affair" is to be seen in the context of the Cold War . Jeanmaire was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment on June 17, 1977 for treason, demoted and expelled from the army. In 1989 he resigned and retired early in connection with the fishing scandal and the affair surrounding Federal Councilor Elisabeth Kopp . The events led to a reorganization of the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office.

Gerber had been married to Ettorina Guglielmina (Etty) Cassini since 1955 and had several children. He died on August 2, 2019 at the age of 91 near Bern.

Web links

Literature by and about Rudolf Gerber in the catalog of the German National Library
Rudolf Gerber in the archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives
Therese Steffen Gerber: Rudolf Gerber. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 26, 2005 .
Thomas Isler: Keeper of Secrets. Obituary in: NZZ am Sunday , August 18, 2019, p. 20.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b obituary
↑ M. Rudolf Gerber succède à M. Hans Walder. ( Memento of September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Journal de Genève . September 25, 1973.
^ Daniel Gerny: Former Federal Councilor Rudolf Gerber - the man who arrested Jeanmaire . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 13, 2019 ( nzz.ch [accessed July 31, 2020]).
↑ Urs Rauber : The Jeanmaire case. Memoirs of a «traitor». The ex-brigadier in the crosshairs of politics and secret services. Weltwoche-ABC-Verlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-85504-134-2 (non-fiction book with the annotated recollections of Jeanmaire and the full text of the judgment)
↑ Switzerland. Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (FDJP): Report of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (PUK) of November 22, 1989: Incidents in the FDJP. (PDF) Bern 1989.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Walder	Federal Prosecutor of the Swiss Confederation 1974–1989	Willy Padrutt

personal data
SURNAME	Gerber, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brugg
DATE OF DEATH	2nd August 2019
Place of death	near Bern

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[2] M. Rudolf Gerber succède à M. Hans Walder. ( Memento of September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Journal de Genève . September 25, 1973.

[3] Daniel Gerny: Former Federal Councilor Rudolf Gerber - the man who arrested Jeanmaire . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 13, 2019 ( nzz.ch [accessed July 31, 2020]).

[4] Urs Rauber : The Jeanmaire case. Memoirs of a «traitor». The ex-brigadier in the crosshairs of politics and secret services. Weltwoche-ABC-Verlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-85504-134-2 (non-fiction book with the annotated recollections of Jeanmaire and the full text of the judgment)

[5] Switzerland. Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (FDJP): Report of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (PUK) of November 22, 1989: Incidents in the FDJP. (PDF) Bern 1989.