Hans Senn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hans Senn

Swiss general

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1918

Place of Birth: Aarau, Aargau, Switzerland

Date of Death: 22-Sep-2007

Profession: entrepreneur

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Hans Senn (1918–2007) was a general officer of the Swiss Army.
Senn was born in Zofingen and, as a young officer, studied at the Ecole Supérieure de Guerre in Paris.
As Army head of operations he unsuccessfully advocated a policy of nuclear armament as a deterrent against the Warsaw Pact in the 1960s.
Switzerland eventually ratified the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. As Chief of the General Staff, holding the rank of Korpskommandant (NATO: OF-8), Senn was Switzerland's most senior military officer from 1977 to 1980.
After his retirement, he authored two standard works about Swiss defence efforts during World War II.