Henri Guisan (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi ɡizɑ̃]; 21 October 1874 – 7 April 1960) was a Swiss military officer who held the office of General of the Swiss...

Guisan may refer to: 1960 Guisan, a main-belt asteroid named after Henri Guisan Antoine Guisan, Swiss ecologist Esperanza Guisán (1940–2015), Spanish philosopher...

division and narrowly failed to achieve promotion to the Serie A in 1929. Henri Guisan acted as president between 1929 and 1939, when his position became honorary...

fortifications, the Border Line, and the Army line fortifications. General Henri Guisan developed a strategy for the defence of Switzerland that recognised its...

elects a General to command the army and air force. On 30 August 1939, Henri Guisan was elected General, with 204 votes out of 227 cast. He immediately began...

and good fortune, as larger events during the war intervened. General Henri Guisan, appointed the commander-in-chief for the duration of the war ordered...

with German SS officer Walter Schellenberg with the approval of General Henri Guisan. Schellenberg explained that a group close to Hitler wanted to invade...

Franco-Prussian War, General Ulrich Wille during the First World War, and General Henri Guisan during the Second World War ("la Mob", "the Mobilisation"). Although...

(1872–1957) a Swiss post-impressionist painter, lived in Pully 1929-1934 Henri Guisan (1874–1960), General of the Swiss Army during WWII, lived in Pully until...

point, Switzerland mobilized 850,000 soldiers. Under the leadership of Henri Guisan, Switzerland developed its National Redoubt plan in case of an invasion...

Observatory near Bern, Switzerland, and named after Swiss General Henri Guisan. Guisan orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.2–2.8 AU...

actress (b. 1885) 1956 – Fred Appleby, English runner (b. 1879) 1960 – Henri Guisan, Swiss general (b. 1874) 1965 – Roger Leger, Canadian ice hockey player...

Convention in January 1993 and ratified it in March 1995. In 1937, General Henri Guisan and the Swiss Army high command commissioned a secret program to develop...

more intensive training than other infantry companies. In 1943, General Henri Guisan, convinced of the necessity of shock troops specially trained for close...

playground. The Alpenquai on the left bank – renamed General-Guisan-Quai after Henri Guisan in 1960 – was created as a terrace-like promenade for the urban...

Sempach (1386) 1987: Le Corbusier (b. 1887) 1988: Olympic Movement 1989: Henri Guisan (general mobilisation 1939) 1990: Gottfried Keller (d. 1890) Swissmint...

three days. Parliament quickly selected the 61-year-old career soldier Henri Guisan to be General and by 3 September 430,000 combat troops and 210,000 in...

This would contribute to his tensions with the next Swiss General, Henri Guisan. His daughter Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille, who was married to silk tycoon...

Constitution is signed, superseding the version signed in 1848. 21 October – Henri Guisan, military leader (died 1960) 27 November – Johannes Baumann, politician...

against an invasion by Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy. Thus, General Henri Guisan put in place the National Redoubt, a plan in which the military was to...

General Henri Guisan of the Swiss Army wearing a kepi with rank insignia...

Sommaruga, politician 17 December – Philippe Chevrier, chef 7 April – Henri Guisan, military leader (born 1874) "All federal councillors since 1848". www...

Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. 1940 – General Henri Guisan orders the Swiss Army to resist German invasion and makes surrender illegal...

Schaffhausen, Münster Reiterstandbild Henri Guisan, 1967, Lausanne-Ouchy Equestrian sculpture of Henri Guisan, 1967 Heinrich Bullinger, 1939–1940 Portal...

mobilization of the army took place during World War II under the command of Henri Guisan (see also Switzerland during the World Wars). The Patrouille des Glaciers...

invading Switzerland during World War II but never attacked. Under General Henri Guisan, the Swiss army prepared for the mass mobilization of militia forces...

Biographien der Kommandanten des 1. Korps Paul Cérésole, Louis-Henri Bornand, Henri Guisan, Olivier Pittet, Arthur de Techtermann, Roch de Diesbach. Editions...

the establishment of Switzerland as a federal state in 1848, Guillaume Henri Dufour was nominated by the Swiss Diet to serve as general in response to...

the camp were not reported correctly. "Switzerland's wartime general, Henri Guisan, demanded that all Red Cross reports about the internment camps be submitted...

French Huguenot soldier who became major-general in the British Army Henri Guisan, Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Army during World War II Michel Hollard...