(1874-10-21)21 October 1874 Mézières, Vaud, Switzerland
Died
7 April 1960(1960-04-07) (aged 85) Pully, Vaud, Switzerland
Allegiance
Switzerland
Years of service
1894–1945
Rank
General
Commands held
Swiss Armed Forces
Henri Guisan (French pronunciation:[ɑ̃ʁiɡizɑ̃]; 21 October 1874 – 7 April 1960) was a Swiss military officer who held the office of General of the Swiss Armed Forces during the Second World War. He was the fourth and the most recent person to be appointed to the rarely used Swiss rank of general, and was possibly Switzerland's most famous soldier. He is best remembered for effectively mobilizing the Swiss military and population in order to prepare resistance against a possible invasion by Nazi Germany in 1940. Guisan was voted the fourth-greatest Swiss figure of all time in 2010.[1]
^"General Guisan – Did he save Switzerland in the war?" (PDF). The Swiss Review. 3: 5. August 2010. Albert Einstein was voted the most outstanding Swiss citizen in history. In second place came Henri Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross, third was Heinrich Pestalozzi, and General Henri Guisan, whose service as commander-in-chief of the Swiss army in the Second World War has never been forgotten, finished in fourth position. In order of votes, they were followed by Le Corbusier, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Alberto Giacometti.
HenriGuisan (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi ɡizɑ̃]; 21 October 1874 – 7 April 1960) was a Swiss military officer who held the office of General of the Swiss...
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division and narrowly failed to achieve promotion to the Serie A in 1929. HenriGuisan acted as president between 1929 and 1939, when his position became honorary...
with German SS officer Walter Schellenberg with the approval of General HenriGuisan. Schellenberg explained that a group close to Hitler wanted to invade...
elects a General to command the army and air force. On 30 August 1939, HenriGuisan was elected General, with 204 votes out of 227 cast. He immediately began...
point, Switzerland mobilized 850,000 soldiers. Under the leadership of HenriGuisan, Switzerland developed its National Redoubt plan in case of an invasion...
and good fortune, as larger events during the war intervened. General HenriGuisan, appointed the commander-in-chief for the duration of the war ordered...
Observatory near Bern, Switzerland, and named after Swiss General HenriGuisan. Guisan orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.2–2.8 AU...
(1872–1957) a Swiss post-impressionist painter, lived in Pully 1929-1934 HenriGuisan (1874–1960), General of the Swiss Army during WWII, lived in Pully until...
in 1848. 25 September – Noëlle Roger, writer (born 1953) 21 October – HenriGuisan, military leader (died 1960) 27 November – Johannes Baumann, politician...
Biographien der Kommandanten des 1. Korps Paul Cérésole, Louis-Henri Bornand, HenriGuisan, Olivier Pittet, Arthur de Techtermann, Roch de Diesbach. Editions...
three days. Parliament quickly selected the 61-year-old career soldier HenriGuisan to be General and by 3 September 430,000 combat troops and 210,000 in...
This would contribute to his tensions with the next Swiss General, HenriGuisan. His daughter Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille, who was married to silk tycoon...
mobilization of the army took place during World War II under the command of HenriGuisan (see also Switzerland during the World Wars). The Patrouille des Glaciers...
January – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (born 1886) 7 April – HenriGuisan, military leader (born 1874) "All federal councillors since 1848". www...
invading Switzerland during World War II but never attacked. Under General HenriGuisan, the Swiss army prepared for the mass mobilization of militia forces...
Convention in January 1993 and ratified it in March 1995. In 1937, General HenriGuisan and the Swiss Army high command commissioned a secret program to develop...
Victor Besenval de Bronstatt (1721–1791) Guillaume-Henri Dufour (1787–1875), General, geographer HenriGuisan (1874–1960), General during World War II Hans...
the camp were not reported correctly. "Switzerland's wartime general, HenriGuisan, demanded that all Red Cross reports about the internment camps be submitted...
054°E / 46.707; 8.054, 2240 m) was installed during World War II under HenriGuisan, in combination with Meiringen Air Base. It was created for the purpose...
French Huguenot soldier who became major-general in the British Army HenriGuisan, Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Army during World War II Michel Hollard...
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. 1940 – General HenriGuisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal...
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