Lukas Friedli
Lukas Friedli is an attorney and a former Swiss Leopard II tank gunner who lives in Switzerland. He writes about military history and copyright law. He studied at the University of Berne and Northwestern Law School, Chicago.
After his acclaimed first book Die Panzer-Instandsetzung der Wehrmacht in 2005, Lukas continues his research on the subject under the mentorship of Thomas L. Jentz.
5 more years of research, primarily in the Military Archives in Freiburg and the National Archives and Record Administration in Washington D.C., lead to a new book about the subject: Repairing the Panzers, published with Panzerwrecks.
Published Works
- Repairing the Panzers
- Published October 2010
- Die Panzer Instandsetzung der Wehrmacht
- Published in the fall of 2005
- Gibt es das Bildzitat im schweizerischen URG?
- Master thesis, published in: Jusletter 2006-04-24
- Andreas Güngerich/Lukas Friedli, Die Rechtsmittel im Haftpflichtprozess nach dem neuen Bundesgerichtsgesetz
- HAVE, Der Haftpflichtprozess 2007
Assisting With
- The Combat History of s.Pz.Abt.505
- Authored by Dale R. Ritter
- Der 16t Portalkran (FRIES)
- Authored by Volker Ruff. Focuses on the development of the company J S Fries Sohn, Frankfurt am Main, technique Strabokran, variants, patents, deployment in tank maintenance, many in action shots, over 150 Frieskran in detail photographs of cranes from Germany, England, France and Poland, with many drawings in 1/35 and more