Johann Ulrich von Salis-Soglio

Johann Ulrich von Salis-Soglio (16 March 1790 in Chur – 27 April 1874[1]) was a Swiss General who in the year of 1847 commanded the conservative Sonderbund alliance in the Sonderbund War.

Johann U. von Salis-Soglio in a drawing from XXI

Career

He chose a military career at a young age and became a member of the Swiss Army in 1809. Between 1809 and 1839 he served as an officer in foreign service in Bavaria and the Netherlands, rising to the rank of major general. He joined the General Staff of the Swiss Army in the rank of colonel in 1841.[2][3]

References
  1. According to the ADB, 17 April 1871.
  2. Adolf Collenberg: Salis, Johann Ulrich von (Soglio) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  3. Georg von Wyß (1890), "Salis-Soglio, Johann Ulrich von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 30, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 249–251
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