List of Swiss People - Military

Military

  • Pierre Victor Besenval de Bronstatt (1721–1791)
  • Guillaume-Henri Dufour (1787–1875), General, geographer
  • Joachim Forrer (1782–1833)
  • Henri Guisan (1874–1960), General during WWII
  • Hans Herzog (1819–1894), General 1870–1871
  • Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779–1869), General, military writer
  • Christophe Keckeis (born 1945), Chief of the Armed Forces (2004–2007)
  • Elmar Mäder, commander of the Swiss Guard (2002–)
  • Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher (1716–1802)
  • Pius Segmüller (born 1952), commander of the Swiss Guard (1998–2002)
  • Theophil Sprecher von Bernegg (1850–1927)
  • Ulrich Wille (1848–1925), General during WWI

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Famous quotes containing the word military:

    “Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
    —Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)

    “My faith is the grand drama of my life. I’m a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colours for those who see none.”
    —Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)

    “In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)