Rolf Henne

Rolf Henne ( born October 7, 1901 in Schaffhausen, † July 27, 1966 in Küsnacht; homeland justified in Sargans and Schaffhausen ), actually Rudolf Henne, a Swiss politician ( National Front ) and entrepreneur. From 1934 to 1938 he was leader of the National Front.

Life

Rudolf Henne grew up as the son of a doctor on in Schaffhausen. He studied law in Zurich and Heidelberg and practiced for seven years as a lawyer in Schaffhausen. He also published various writings. Until 1933, he was close to the Free Democratic Party, whose member he was.

Ideologically, however, Henne was the NSDAP particularly close and fell off from liberalism. In the canton of Schaffhausen, he founded the New front and stepped on to the Senate by-election in 1933 and was able to get 27 % of votes. In 1934 he became leader of the country's National Front and radicalized the party towards a National Socialist ideology. So he brought them finally to open confrontation line against the existing political system of Switzerland. In 1937 he visited the Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg.

Under hen the National Front lost rapidly increasing in influence. 1938 Robert Tobler took the leadership of the party, hen appealed on all party posts down. He subsequently wrote articles for the national issues of the front movement and was from 1940 to 1943 whose editors.

In 1944, he became president of the Press Service Lupe newspaper in Zurich, which was merged in 1948 with the Argus der Presse. Along with his brother Alex hen he was until his death in managing the still active company.

Rudolf Henne was the great-grandson of the historian Anton hen.

M works

• The English Freiiheitsbegriff. Zurich 1927. (Dissertation)
• Essays. Küsnacht: Self-published in 1963.