Hans Senn

Hans Senn ( born July 6, 1918 in Aarau, † 22 September, 2007 Bern; homeland justified in Zofingen ) was a Swiss businessman and officer.

Life

Hans Senn was the son of forestry engineer Max Emanuel Senn. He studied law, history and German literature at the universities of Zurich and Bern and received his PhD in 1945 on General Hans Herzog. He graduated from active service 1939-1945 as a Gunner - platoon leader. He founded in 1939 in Pfäffikon the Kartonfabrik Hans Senn (now Hans Senn AG ) and led it until 1949, when the second generation took over the management. He received his military training at the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre in Paris. In the sixties he worked as Chief of the Operations Section, a proponent of a possible nuclear strike, as well as the Federal Council in the fifties. He was from 1977 to 1980 Chief of Staff of the Swiss Army and Corps Commander. In his first year in office, Switzerland ratified the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty.

Among other things, he wrote the biography of the Swiss General Hans Herzog, 1871, the Armée de l' Est, consisting of 87,000 French soldiers interned.

Hans Senn was in 1950 married to Marion Aerni.

Works (selection)

• Beginnings of a Dissuasionsstrategie during the Second World War. With a foreword by Kaspar Villiger. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1995, ISBN 3-7190-1398-7 ( The Swiss General Staff. Vol. 7).