Robert Tobler

Robert Tobler ( born December 23, 1901 in Zurich, † June 17, 1962 ) was a Swiss politician. He was one of the leading heads of the front movement, the Swiss equivalent of the German National Socialism in the 1930s.

The doctor of jurisprudence at the University of Zurich in 1930 belonged to the founders of the movement New front and subsequently took a leading position in the party National Front a. From 1934 to 1938 he sat in the City Council of the City of Zurich, from 1935 to 1939 he was Cantonal and National Council. In January 1938, the Diet of the party elected him officially to the party leader.

In early 1940, Tobler was temporarily arrested for an illegal border crossing into the German Reich, to which the National Front broke up. After his release, Tobler took over in the successor organization Swiss collection from July 1940 to ban the party, 1943, the Leader office. After the war, Tobler moved back to its Zurich law firm. The Supreme Court of the Canton of Zurich forbade him 1947, the profession as a lawyer, but the Federal Court overturned this ruling in 1948.