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...

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...

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

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...

literary works and his service during World War II as a close aide to Henri Guisan, the Swiss army general. Born in Montcherand, Barbey studied in Geneva...

had secured supplies, mobilized the army under the command of General Henri Guisan, and initiated a rationing program to ensure the population's basic needs...

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...

in 1848. 25 September – Noëlle Roger, writer (born 1953) 21 October – Henri Guisan, military leader (died 1960) 27 November – Johannes Baumann, politician...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Victor Besenval de Bronstatt (1721–1791) Guillaume-Henri Dufour (1787–1875), General, geographer Henri Guisan (1874–1960), General during World War II Hans...

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

leaving its administration entrusted to the SGG. On July 25, 1940, General Henri Guisan used the site for his speech, now remembered as the "Rütlirapport", to...

(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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

January – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (born 1886) 7 April – Henri Guisan, military leader (born 1874) "All federal councillors since 1848". www...