Arnold Käch

Arnold Käch ( born February 4, 1914 in Bern, † November 24, 1998 in Calgary, Canada) was a Swiss officer, skiers and functionary and author.

Life

Käch, son of the engineer Arnold Otto Käch and his wife Berta, born Scholl, studied from 1933 to 1939 law at the Universities of Lausanne, Bern, Paris, in the United States and Canada and gained in 1939 admitted to the bar. During this time he was at the Olympic Winter Games in 1936 in the rank of Lieutenant participants of the Swiss team at the demonstration competition military patrol run that scored the sixth. On January 9, 1937, he won the first Citadin race in Murren From 1939 to 1940 he worked as a lawyer in the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (DEA ) worked, after he was until 1943 an assistant to the Swiss military and air attaché in Berlin and subsequent military and air attaché in Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen. In the meantime he married in 1941 Louisa Hendrika Jeannette Wagemans. From 1 July 1947 to 1957 he served as General Staff Officer of the first Director of the Federal Gymnastics and Sports School (ETS) Magglingen and carried in his tenure to expand and rise of the ETS Magglingen at the present Federal Office of Sport. From 1951 to mid- 1961, he was Secretary General of the Fédération Internationale de Ski. As a writer, he was awarded the 1957 Swiss Sports Awards in the category of artists. From 1957 to 1979 he was Director of the Federal Military Government, in 1967 promoted to Brigadier and was temporarily 1967-1972 Commander of the Border Brigade 11 He was a member of the Swiss Olympic Association and the Commission for the distribution of tasks between the Confederation and the cantons, and, since, among other 1983 guest of honor at the annual Grindelwald has been held since 1978, international SAS Pentathlon competitions.

Publication

• White adventure. Joyous adventures of a ski vagabonds in Europe and America. Amstutz & Herdeg, Zurich 1939