Colonel Hervé de Weck (1943-...)

A native of Fribourg Colonel Hervé de Weck taught history and French literature at the literature at the Lycée cantonal de Porrentruy. An officer in the mechanised and light troops, he commanded a company of Chars 68 before branching off into intelligence with postings to the tank regiment tank regiment 7, mechanised division 1 and field corps 1, where he was 1 Field Army Corps, where he was a senior intelligence officer. intelligence officer.

From the 1960s, he made occasional contributions to the Review militaire suisse. From 1975, he wrote columns on security and defence for in The Democrat of Delémont and L’Express/L’Impartial of Neuchâtel; he has published several articles and books on the the history of cavalry, armoured weapons and the military history of Switzerland in the XIXe and XXe siècles. Responsable des publications au comité de l’Association suisse d’histoire et de sciences militaires et, depuis 1980, trésorier-secrétaire général adjoint de la Commission internationale d’histoire militaire.

In September 1991, this militia officer - the first since Colonel Fernand Feyler - succeeded Colonel EMG Paul Ducotterd as Editor-in-Chief of the RMSHe was also a member of the Swiss Army Staff, keen to work for the cause of general defence in a spirit of constructive criticism. His incorporation into the staff of the Field Army Corps 1 and his international activities enabled him to follow the post-Cold War period, the reforms of the Swiss Army that it would bring about, and above all to enlist the collaboration of Swiss and foreign authors, both civilian and military, capable of shedding light on a period of transition, and therefore of uncertainty, both in Switzerland and around the world.

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