Alfred de Claparède
Alfred de Claparède (born February 10, 1842 in Geneva , † September 27, 1922 in Berlin ) was a Swiss diplomat who was, among other things, envoy to the German Empire between 1915 and 1917 . Together with Charles Lardy and Giovanni Battista Pioda, he was one of the first generation of professional diplomats in Switzerland.
Life
De Claparède was a son of Charles-Claude de Claparède, who was a member of the Representative Council of Geneva, and his wife Anne-Louise Brunner. He graduated after school to study law at the University of Geneva , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn and the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin , where he also has a 1866 Dr. jur. acquired. In 1869 he entered the diplomatic service and is considered the first professional diplomat in Switzerland.
In 1869 de Claparède was appointed counselor at the legation in the Kingdom of Prussia in Berlin under the direction of Bernhard Hammer , where he dealt with mediation in the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 . After the establishment of the German Empire in 1871 , he remained active at the legation until 1888, but in the meantime was also chargé d'affaires at the legation in Austria-Hungary in 1883 . On April 18, 1888, he replaced Emil Frey as envoy to the United States and remained there until January 1, 1893, whereupon Giovanni Battista Pioda was his successor there. Right at the beginning of his work in Washington, DC he acted as an arbitrator between Chile and the USA after the Baltimore incident in 1888 . On November 24, 1893, he succeeded Arnold Otto Aepli as envoy in Austria and remained there until June 30, 1904. His successor there was Fernand du Martheray .
Shortly before, de Claparède took over on June 13, 1904 as the successor to Arnold Roth, who died in office on March 7, 1904, the post of envoy to the German Empire . He held this office until February 10, 1917 and was then replaced by Robert Haab . As an envoy of the German Empire, he participated, among others, trade negotiations between the two countries and was also between 19 October 1915 and 10 February 1917 as a Swiss representative in Sweden accredited .
De Claparède spent 48 years in the service of the Confederation and worked in five different locations, including three as head of missions: de Claparède's career was therefore not significantly different from that of other foreign colleagues and he is therefore regarded as Switzerland's first professional diplomat.
His marriage to Catherine-Caroline Crola in 1866 resulted in his son of the same name , who was also a diplomat and between 1938 and 1941 as chargé d'affaires, head of the embassy in Bulgaria . His cousin was the diplomat Arthur de Claparède, who later taught as a lecturer at the University of Geneva.
Web links
- Marc Perrenoud / BE: Claparède, Alfred de. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Documents by and about Alfred de Claparède in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ^ Claparède, Alfred de (son) in the Dodis database of diplomatic documents in Switzerland
- ↑ Marc Perrenoud / BE: Claparède, Arthur de. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Claparède, Arthur de in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Claparède, Alfred de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1922 |
| Place of death | Berlin |