Jakob Karl Burckhardt

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Jakob Karl Burckhardt (born June 25, 1913 in Basel ; † December 5, 1996 in Zurich ) was a Swiss diplomat and chief official in the areas of nuclear and educational policy.

family

Jakob Burckhardt comes from the Basel patrician family Burckhardt . His father Karl August Burckhardt was an architect. He attended schools in Basel and the grammar school in the boarding school at Glarisegg Castle . After studying law in Basel and Munich he received his doctorate in 1937 at the University of Basel to the Dr. iur. He was a member of the Zofingia .

In 1943 Jakob Burckhardt married Lucie Gansser.

service

During the Second World War , Jakob Burckhardt held the rank of first lieutenant in active service .

In 1940 Burckhardt entered the diplomatic service. From 1942 he was legation attaché, later legation secretary for the Swiss Confederation in Prague (1945–48) and Oslo (1948–50). From 1951 he served in Stockholm (1953 as Legation Councilor ) and 1954–56 as Legation Councilor in Rome . In 1956 he returned to Switzerland, where Federal Councilor Max Petitpierre appointed him as a delegate of the Swiss Federal Council for nuclear issues in various national and international organizations (until 1961). In this function he was particularly involved in the implementation of the Federal Act on Atomic Energy.

From 1961 Jakob Burckhardt headed the department for international organizations in the Federal Political Department . From 1966 to 1978 he presided over the Swiss School Board, the supervisory and administrative body of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . During his tenure, he was particularly involved in the takeover of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne by the Swiss Confederation and in the expansion of the ETH Zurich .

From 1975 to 1982 Jakob Burckhardt sat on the Executive Council of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

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