Roland Nef
Beat Roland Nef ( born July 1, 1959 in Frauenfeld, homeland justified in Urnäsch ) is a Swiss officer. He was chief of the army in 2008.
Career
Nef grew up in Frauenfeld, graduated from the University of Zurich Law and graduated with a licentiate. When connecting a student, he was named Taschte because he plays the piano and organ. He was for a time organist at the Zurich Guthirt Church. In 1988, he appeared as a regular officer in the corps of artillery instructors. In 1999 he attended the Field Artillery Officer Advanced Course at Fort Sill, United States. January 1, 2002 Nef was appointed commander of the armored brigade 4, with simultaneous promotion to brigadier. XXI In the army he took over on January 1, 2004, the command of the 11th Armoured Brigade Since February 2007, he was commander of the teachers association tanks / artillery in Thun.
He was elected by the Federal Council in early June 2007 as Chief of the Army ( CdA ). Under carriage from the Brigadier to the corps commander Nef occurred on 1 January 2008 taking over from Christophe Keckeis. This office he put half a year later settled again in July 2008 after media published details of his choice and to a then pending investigation against him.
As Army Chief of Roland Nef was responsible for the development and leadership of the army. In the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport ( DDPS), he was Head of the Department of Defense. He led the two branches of the armed forces of the Army and Air Force, the higher Armed Forces College ( HKA ), the logistics base ( LBA), the Command Support Organisation (CSO ), the Armed Forces Planning Staff ( AFPS ) and the Armed Forces Joint Staff (FST A).
Affair to private misconduct
Mid-July 2008 it became public that Roland Nef has readjusted his ex- partner for months, so they reported him. The (total) Federal - except the head of the Defense Department - knew in the appointment Nefs to CdA of the then ongoing investigation nothing. The former partner was willing to withdraw the complaint, whereupon the case was closed before the inauguration of the Army chief. This was a written contractual condition of employment. As reparation for the injustice caused Nef paid her under the supervision of the Zurich prosecutor compensation in an unspecified amount. Nef filed against several media lawsuit, claiming: " Some media peddle truths, half-truths and falsehoods, their mix and distribution is independent of the truth of personality hurtful and amounts to a character assassination campaign ."
Head of Department, Federal Councillor Samuel Schmid confirmed that the newly elected CdA was durchgeleuchtet before his promotion by a prescribed for the highest federal officials "extended safety testing with survey " among other things, his family situation. The independent by the Federal Sicherheitsprüforgan had before file access to the above procedure and after its final adjustment and interviewed Nef at a hearing in this respect before the positive test result - was communicated to the Federal Council - a correctly without details about the privacy. The Federal Council before CdA choice in the knowledge that Nef, who had been subjected to in 2005 already as an Army squad an extended safety testing, completed the necessary repetition of the assumption of office of the persons safety check after his election as head of the army. After him two days before the full confidence has been issued by the Federal Schmid, Nef was suspended on July 21, 2008 by Schmid until August 20 to address the allegations against him.
On July 25, Nef proposed to the Federal Council, dissolve the employment relationship by mutual agreement. The opportunity to address the charges against him, Nef did not use; He admitted that he made mistakes. On 20 August 2008, finally confirmed the Federal Nef's resignation and appointed his deputy, Major André leaf man, on an interim basis for new CdA.