Emil Sonderegger

Emil Sonderegger ( born November 28, 1868 in Herisau, † July 14, 1934 in Bern ) was a Swiss officer and chief of staff who later became politically positioned itself at the extreme right margin.

Biography

Sonderegger's father owned an embroidery company for which the son was active in the export sector and numerous business trips undertaken abroad. Even at a young age was Emil Sonderegger holders of such embroidery out, just to opt for a career as a professional soldiers in the Swiss Army. As a militia officer he took in 1912 at the Imperial maneuvers during the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II in the Eastern part. He was appointed Chief of Staff of the 3rd Army Corps, commanded the Mountain Brigade 3 and from 1918 as Oberstdivisionär the 4th Division. In general strike in November 1918, he commanded the troops in order the city of Zurich, where he earned his martial and partially unrelenting occurrence in bourgeois circles high recognition. Since 1920, Chief of Staff, he joined in 1923 as a result of political differences over the proposed restructuring of the Swiss Army from the post back.

Sonderegger then worked for the Swiss Industrial Company and for a weapons producer. Over time, he increasingly turned to politics, where he became the prononcierten opponent of parliamentary democracy. As a military writer, he entered the 1930s as a lecturer at Frontist events and wrote, inter alia, the writing order in the State ( 1933). 1933 succeeded Hans Oehler to move then publisher and editor in chief of the Swiss Monatshefte, Sonderegger for membership in the National Front. Using his military experience, he played a critical role in the transformation of the National Front of a discussion in a political movement of the street. However, the slowness of the National Front led to a rapid disillusionment, and so left Sonderegger the grouping in the same year, to start with Ernst Leonhardt the national union. In February 1934, however, Sonderegger and Leonhardt parted, with Sonderegger formed his own popular front. When he already died in the same year, his group went on in the Federal front.