Hervé Alphand

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American reception in honor of André Malraux ; Hervé Alphand can be seen on the left

Hervé Alphand (born May 31, 1907 in Paris , † January 13, 1994 ) was a French diplomat .

Life

Alphand came from a French diplomatic family and was the son of Charles Hervé Alphand , a diplomat who worked in Moscow and Bern . Hervé Alpgand studied at the École libre des sciences politiques and the Paris University . Already at age 20, he received his degree in law and became at age 22 the youngest financial inspector of France.

In 1936 he became a financial attaché at the embassy in Moscow. After the occupation of France , he went to Washington, DC , where he was financial advisor to the embassy of the unoccupied part of France from 1940 to 1941 . From 1941 to 1944 he was finance director in London and Algiers . From 1944 to 1949 he moved to the French Foreign Ministry, where he was director general for technical, economic and financial issues. At the Paris Peace Conference of 1946 he played an important role, as well as in the subsequent measures taken by the Allies, including a report on the Marshall Plan , which went to 16 nations.

From 1949 to 1954 he represented the interests of France in NATO , where he held the rank of ambassador. From 1955 to 1956 he served on the United Nations Security Council . He was then ambassador to Washington, DC for nine years, where he played an important mediating role in the settlement of the Suez Crisis . From 1965 to 1972 he was Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Until his retirement he worked as a foreign policy advisor for the Middle and Far East .

From 1930 to 1957 he was married to the French singer Claude Reynaud. In 1977 he published his memoirs under the title L'Étonnement d'être, journal 1939–1973 .

Works

  • L'Étonnement d'Être: Journal 1939–1973 . Fayard 1977.

literature

  • Short biography . In: Rainer Hudemann, Armin Heinen in collaboration with Johannes Großmann and Marcus Hahn (eds.): The Saarland between France, Germany and Europe 1945–1957 (=  publications of the Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research ). No. 41 . Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-939150-02-2 , p. 609 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Celebrity Register, US Edition 1959. Page 183. Online in the World Biographical Information System Online (registration required)
  2. ^ Douglas Johnson: Obituary: Hervé Alphand. The Independent , February 7, 1994, accessed October 3, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Alphand, Hervé
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1994
Place of death Paris