Gaston Carlin

Gaston Carlin in an undated etching by Ferdinand Schmutzer

Gaston Carlin (born August 19, 1859 in Delémont , Canton of Bern , † June 13, 1922 in Berlin ) was a Swiss diplomat who was, among other things, envoy in the German Reich for a few months until his death in 1922 .

Life

Carlin was the son of the politician and lawyer Édouard Carlin , who was among other things a member of the National Council and President of the Federal Supreme Court in 1869 , as well as his wife Emilie Weissegger. He graduated in law at the University of Bern , University of Leipzig and the University of Paris and completed his PhD for Doctor of Law at the University of Bern in 1881 with the thesis No one can transfer as he has himself to another more right. In particular with regard to the acquisition of real rights to movable property . He then became an advocate in 1882 , but entered the diplomatic service in 1883. In the following years he worked at the embassies in Italy and Austria .

Delegates to the Second Hague Peace Conference: Gaston Carlin can be found in the fourth column

Between 1891 and 1895 he was secretary of the 1st department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Federal Political Department . He then replaced Simeon Bavier as envoy in Italy on May 7, 1895 and stayed there until July 30, 1902, when Giovanni Battista Pioda succeeded him. On July 30, 1902, he himself succeeded Charles-Daniel Bourcart as envoy to the United Kingdom . He held this office for 17 years until September 15, 1919 and was then replaced by Charles Paravicini . At the same time, he was accredited as a representative in the Netherlands from 1904 . He then became the first envoy in the Netherlands in 1920 and worked there until he was replaced by Arthur de Pury in 1922.

Most recently, on April 8, 1922, Carlin succeeded Alfred von Planta as envoy in the German Reich . He held this office until his death almost two months later on June 13, 1922, after which Hermann Rüfenacht became his successor.

publication

• Nobody can transfer more rights to another than he himself has. In particular with regard to the acquisition of real rights to movable property , dissertation University of Bern, 1881

Web links

• Marc Perrenoud / AL: Carlin, Gaston. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Documents by and about Carlin, Gaston in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland