Giovanni Battista Pioda (diplomat, 1850)

This article deals with the diplomat Giovanni Battista Pioda. On the Federal Council, see Giovanni Battista Pioda and grandfather of the same name Giovan Battista Pioda .

Giovanni Battista Pioda (between 1902 and 1914)

Giovanni Battista Pioda (also Giovan Battista Pioda or Jean Baptiste Pioda ) (born April 24, 1850 in Lugano , † November 30, 1914 in Porto d'Anzio ) was a Swiss diplomat . Together with Alfred de Claparède and Charles Lardy , Pioda was one of the first generation of professional diplomats in Switzerland.

Life

As the son of his father Giovanni Battista Pioda , who was born in Locarno and was a former federal councilor and diplomat, he followed his father to Bern and then to Italy . He studied law in Rome and then worked for several years at two banks in Italy and acquired in 1880 the licentiate in law. After the outbreak of World War I , but before Italy entered the war, Pioda died near Rome.

Diplomatic service

Pioda and his wife in Washington, DC 1895

In 1875 he entered the diplomatic service and became embassy attaché at the legation in Rome. In 1877 he was promoted to legation secretary and in 1884 to legation councilor in the same post. On November 23, 1894, the Federal Council appointed Pioda extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of the embassy in Washington to succeed Alfred de Claparède . Fernand du Martheray replaced Pioda in Washington in 1902, and after the Silvestrelli affair , Pioda was commissioned by the Federal Council in 1902 as the new Swiss envoy in Italy, succeeding Gaston Carlin , to normalize Swiss-Italian relations. Indeed, it has been difficult for Pioda to win the trust of the Italians. On November 30, 1914, Pioda died in office.

literature

• Carlo Agliati: Giovan Battista Pioda. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . April 4, 2011 , accessed May 9, 2020 .
• Claude Altermatt: Les débuts de la diplomatie professionnelle en Suisse (1848–1914). Éditions Universitaires Friborg, Freiburg 1990.

Web links

• Documents by and about Pioda, Giovanni Battista in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ^ Claude Altermatt: Les débuts de la diplomatie professionnelle en Suisse (1848–1914). Freiburg 1990, p. 287.
2. ^ Rudolf Probst: The Political Department 1848-1945. The establishment of a state body for foreign affairs using the example of Switzerland , University of Bern 1982, p. 91.
3. ^ Verdiana Grossi / GL: Silvestrelli affair. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
4. ↑ Federal Council Protocol No. 3186 of July 30, 1902: "Relations with Italy and transfer of envoys" in the Dodis database of diplomatic documents in Switzerland
5. ^ Claude Altermatt: Les débuts de la diplomatie professionnelle en Suisse (1848–1914). Freiburg 1990, p. 271.

predecessor	Office	successor
Alfred de Claparède	Swiss envoy in Washington, DC 1894–1902	Fernand you Martheray
Gaston Carlin	Swiss envoy in Rome 1902–1914	Alfred von Planta