Arnold Roth (diplomat)

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Arnold Roth (1888)

Arnold Roth (born January 24, 1836 in Teufen , Canton Appenzell Ausserrhoden ; † April 7, 1904 in Berlin ) was a Swiss diplomat and politician who, among other things, was a member of the Council of States between 1871 and 1876, and Landammann of the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden from 1873 to 1875 and between 1877 and his death in 1904 was envoy to the German Empire .

Life

Roth was the son of the politician Johannes Roth , who was a member of the Council of States and National Council as well as three times Mayor of the Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. After attending the Trogen Cantonal School and the St. Gallen High School, he began studying law in 1854 at the University of Zurich and the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg , which he graduated in 1857. In 1857 he also completed his doctorate as Dr. jur. from. Between 1857 and 1859 he worked as a lawyer and auditor at the Zurich District Court .

In 1859 Roth entered the diplomatic service as a personal assistant to Johann Konrad Kern , the Swiss envoy in Paris, and was then legation secretary at the embassy in France and from 1869 to 1871 first secretary of the Federal Political Department . He then moved into politics and was 1871-1877 member of the Cantonal Council of Appenzell Outer Rhodes and at the same time Government . As such, he acted as governor from 1871 to 1872 and then as the successor to Ulrich Sutter between 1873 and his replacement by Jakob Hohl in 1875 as governor of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. At the same time he was a member of the Council of States from 1871 to 1876 and also served as President of the canton's interrogation office between 1871 and 1877 and as a substitute at the Federal Supreme Court from 1871 to 1874 . During his political career, Roth, who was a supporter of the centralized federal revision in 1872, took a culture-fighting view and was significantly involved in the constitutional revision of the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in 1876. As a member of the Council of States, he supported the politics of Emil Welti , who was a member of the Federal Council between 1867 and 1891 and was President six times . He was also a co-founder of the Kantonalbank as well as chairman of the initiative committee of the St. Gallen – Gais tram and was also a member of the Rentenanstalt board of directors from 1872 to 1876 .

On December 4, 1876, Roth succeeded Bernhard Hammer as envoy in the German Empire and held this post until his death on April 7, 1904, after which Alfred de Claparède was his successor. In 1882 he was proposed as a candidate for the Federal Council, but rejected the candidacy. In the course of his activity as envoy, he played a key role in the preparation of the trade and settlement agreements with the German Empire and in 1889 in the settlement of the Wohlgemuth affair . In 1890 he took part in the International Conference for Occupational Safety and Health in Berlin and in 1899 was a member of the Swiss delegation at the Hague Peace Conference . Roth shaped the professionalization of Swiss professional diplomacy and with him future Swiss diplomats such as Alfred de Claparède, Leo Vogel , Alphonse Dunant and Arthur de Pury completed their diplomatic training.

On Sunday, June 4th, 1899, he left The Hague to identify the body of his eighteen-year-old daughter Fanny, who lost her life in the railway accident in Vlissingen on Thursday evening on June 1st. Her body was only found on June 3rd.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Fuchs: Roth, Johannes. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Claude Altermatt: Les débuts de la diplomatie professionnelle en Suisse (1848–1914). Freiburg 1990, p. 273
  3. ^ Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden: Landammänner
  4. ^ Claude Altermatt: Les débuts de la diplomatie professionnelle en Suisse (1848–1914). Freiburg 1990, p. 273
  5. ↑ 'Landammann and Minister Dr. iur. Arnold Roth ', Tüüfner Poscht , March 2001, Volume 6, No. 2, p. 19
personal data
SURNAME Roth, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Teufen , Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1904
Place of death Berlin