Hans Herzog
Military Person
1819 – 1894
Who was Hans Herzog?
Hans Herzog was a Swiss army officer, and was elected Switzerland's General during the Franco-Prussian War.
Born in Aarau, he became an artillery lieutenant in 1840, and then spent six years in travelling, before he became a partner in his father's business in 1846. In 1847 he saw his first active service in the short Swiss Sonderbund war.
In 1860 he abandoned mercantile pursuits for a purely military career, becoming colonel and inspector-general of the Swiss artillery. In 1870 he was commander-in-chief of the Swiss army, which guarded the Swiss border, in the Jura, during the Franco-German War, and in February 1871, as such, concluded the Convention of Verrières with General Clinchant for the disarming and the interning of the remains of Bourbaki's army, when it took refuge in Switzerland.
In 1875 he became the commander-in-chief of the Swiss artillery, which he did much to reorganize, helping also in the reorganization of the other branches of the Swiss army. He died in 1894 in his native town of Aarau.
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