Dieter Eric Chenaux-Repond

Dieter Eric Chenaux-Repond (born July 22, 1934 in Bombay ; † October 18, 2000 in Basel , grave in Berzona ) was a Swiss diplomat .

Life

Dieter Eric Chenaux-Repond was a son of the German falconers and Eric Chenaux-Repond was a Swiss businessman. Major Pierre-Nicolas Chenaux , 1740–1781, (leader of the movement of insurgent peasants against the government of Friborg ) was one of his ancestors. His grandfather Julius Chenaux-Repond was a professor and lecturer in accounting at the Technical University of Stuttgart from 1923 to 1939 . In 1964 he married Agathe Meyer.

He attended high school in Zurich and Basel. In 1958 he completed his studies at the University of Basel and was awarded a doctorate in law with magna cum laude . He studied political science at the Institute for International Studies at the University of Minnesota , where in 1960 he wrote the study The Attitude of Governments Toward a State where an Insurection Arises from the American War of Independence to the Spanish Civil War , which dealt with psychology.

Dieter Chenaux-Repond entered the foreign service in 1961 and was employed as a technical assistant in Berlin, Cologne, Paris, Tokyo, New York and Bonn until 1977. From 1964 to 1965 he headed the service for technical cooperation / information and documentation. In April 1968 he acted as Deuxième Secrétaire in Ankara. In June 1972 he was the embassy secretary in Cologne Bonn. From 1977 he was first-class embassy secretary in Bonn .

From March 22, 1980 to March 23, 1983 he was ambassador to Ankara . From April 1, 1983 to August 31, 1987, he was ambassador to Tokyo . In this function he organized a lecture tour for Golo Mann in March 1986 to Tokyo and Osaka .

From September 1, 1987 to January 18, 1992 he was the permanent representative of the Swiss government at the UN headquarters .

From January 26, 1992 to 1998 he was ambassador in Bonn . He caused the Swiss government to provide 6000 DM for a bronze plaque of the Swiss Consul General Franz-Rudolf von Weiss , who in March 1945 with Richard Schimpf saved Bad Godesberg from destruction through negotiations with the US General Louis Aleck Craig.

After his transfer into the retirement in mid-1999, he wrote columns, among others, for the " Die Weltwoche ".

publication

• From the cold war to the fall of the wall, notes from a Swiss diplomat.

Web links

• Chenaux repond, Dieter Eric in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georges Andrey: Pierre-Nicolas Chenaux, 1740-1781. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
2. ↑ University of Miniseota, graduate school Master of Art S. 89
3. ^ Chenaux-Repond, Dieter Eric in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
4. ^ Mission of Switzerland to the UN in New York in the Dodis database of the diplomatic documents of Switzerland
5. ^ Der Spiegel , May 18, 1998, Consul General Franz Rudolf von Weiss

predecessor	Office	successor
Georges Bonnant	Swiss Ambassador in Ankara March 22, 1980 to March 23, 1983	André Maillard
Fritz Rudolf Staehelin	Swiss Ambassador in Tokyo April 1, 1983 to August 31, 1987	Roger Bear
Francesca Pometta	Permanent representative of the Swiss government at the UN headquarters September 1, 1987 to January 18, 1992	Johannes Manz
Alfred Hohl	Swiss Ambassador in Bonn January 26, 1992 to 1998	Thomas Borer