Charles Édouard Lardy

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Charles Lardy (before 1900)

Charles Édouard Lardy (also Karl Eduard Lardy ) (born September 27, 1847 in Neuchâtel , † June 27, 1923 in Bevaix ) was a Swiss diplomat . Together with Alfred de Claparède and Giovanni Battista Pioda , Lardy was one of the first generation of professional diplomats in Switzerland.

Life

Lardy came as the first son of the lawyer and Neuchâtel Councilor, Charles-Louis Lardy, and Louise Lardy nee. Sacc to the world. He studied law at the University of Heidelberg and obtained his doctorate in 1876.

Lardy married Mathilde Augusta Georgette Vernes on March 5, 1872; the marriage had eight children. Two of his children, Charles-Louis and Etienne , became diplomats like their father.

Charles Lardy (1900)

Diplomatic service

Lardy entered the diplomatic service in 1869 and succeeded the Legation Councilor of the Swiss legation in Paris , Arnold Roth . In 1883 Lardy was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Legation in Paris. Lardy thus took over the post of his mentor Johann Konrad Kern . Until his retirement in 1917, Lardy would not leave the post in Paris.

Among other things, he was a colonel , member of the military justice system , author of various books, member of the Hague Court of Arbitration (1902-1922) and the Institute for International Law (President between 1899 and 1902). Lardy represented Switzerland's interests at numerous international conferences and advocated the expansion of Swiss diplomacy. Like his former mentor, Johann Konrad Kern, he was an attentive observer of French, European and world politics. Thanks to his long tenure in office, his authority was seen as undisputed in both Bern and Paris. The diplomatic reports that Lardy sent to the Federal Council were therefore given special weight for assessing international events.

Lardy's diplomatic career was peculiar. Unlike de Claparède and Pioda, he spent all of his 48 years of diplomatic service in one place, 34 of which he was Swiss envoy.

literature

  • Claude Altermatt: Les débuts de la diplomatie professionnelle en Suisse (1848–1914). Freiburg 1990.
  • Albert Schoop: Carl Lardy, premier diplomate de carrière de l'Etat fédéral, 1847–1923. In: Revue historique neuchâteloise. 1998, pp. 3-9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Claude Altermatt: Les débuts de la diplomatie professionnelle en Suisse (1848–1914). Freiburg 1990, p. 287.
  2. ^ Charles-Louis Lardy (1816–1875) on avocatsnotaires.ch
  3. ^ Claude Altermatt: Les débuts de la diplomatie professionnelle en Suisse (1848–1914). Freiburg 1990, p. 268.
  4. ^ Former Presidents - Institut de Droit Internationale
predecessor Office successor
Johann Konrad Kern Swiss envoy in Paris
1883–1917 		Alphonse Dunant
personal data
SURNAME Lardy, Charles Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lardy, Karl Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1923
Place of death Bevaix