Jaromír Kopecký

Jaromír Kopecký (born May 11, 1899 in Prague ; † May 6, 1977 there ) was an ambassador for Czechoslovakia .

Life

Kopecký was accredited by the governments of Romania and Yugoslavia . Before the Second World War he was accredited to the League of Nations in Geneva as representative of the government of Edvard Beneš for Czechoslovakia. When Beneš proclaimed the Czechoslovak government in exile in London, Kopecký saw himself as its representative. He reported on the domestic political development in Switzerland . On December 11, 1941 Kopecký was from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been asked to lists of Czech citizens in Switzerland, with Visa , can be brought into the realm of the Allies after the military and political aspects of a hierarchy to create. In May 1944 he was also involved in the distribution of the so-called Auschwitz Protocols .

After the Communist seizure of power in February 1948, he was arrested in 1949 while trying to escape abroad and imprisoned until 1960.

Publications

• Ženeva: politické paměti 1939-1945, Praha: Historický ústav Akademie věd České republiky, 1999
• Paměti diplomata (Memoirs of a Diplomat), Praha, Torst 2004

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniel C. Schmid: Dreiecksgeschichten: Swiss diplomacy, the "Third Reich" and the Bohemian countries 1938-1945. Chronos, 2002, p. 155.
2. ↑ Kalendárium terezínského rodinného tábora v Birkenau (1943-1944). online at: holocaust.cz ( memento of the original from December 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Czech, accessed November 14, 2010 

Web links

• Literature by and about Jaromír Kopecký in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Rudolf Künzl - Jizerský	Czechoslovak ambassador to the Swiss government and the League of Nations in Geneva April 9, 1938 to 1945	Bohdan Štrér (November 8, 1881 - October 21, 1973)