Edouard Odier

Édouard Odier (born January 17, 1844 in Geneva , † December 7, 1919 in Cologny , resident in Geneva) was a Swiss lawyer , politician and diplomat .

He looked for a jurisprudential studies, which he in his hometown and in Paris completed and 1868 with the Licentiate completed until 1906 as a lawyer in Geneva. In addition, he was a member of the Grand Conseil of the Canton of Geneva from 1878 to 1906, and from 1900 to 1906 he was a State Councilor for the military and later for the judiciary and police at the Conseiller d'État , the Geneva cantonal government . In federal politics he was in the years 1891/1892 and from 1893 to 1896 as a Council of Statesas well as active as a National Council from 1897 to 1899 and from 1902 to 1906 . He belonged to the liberal-democratic faction. From 1894 to 1906 he was a member of the board of directors of the Swiss Dispatch Agency .

Portrait of Édouard Odier as an ICRC member

Édouard Odier was from 1874 a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and in 1899 representative of his home country at the first Hague Peace Conference . He supported the expansion of diplomacy and was involved in the establishment of the Swiss embassy in Russia from 1905 , in which he was active as envoy extraordinary and ministerial plénipotentiaire from 1906 . At the end of 1917 he retired from this position, but due to the Russian October Revolution , his return journey was delayed until the beginning of 1919.

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predecessor	Office	successor
	Swiss envoy in Saint Petersburg 1906–1917	Hermann Flückiger

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SURNAME	Odier, Édouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss lawyer, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Geneva
DATE OF DEATH	December 7, 1919
Place of death	Cologny