Johannes von Muralt (lawyer)

Johannes von Muralt

Johannes von Muralt (born July 18, 1877 in Zurich ; † November 10, 1947 there ) was a Swiss lawyer and officer. From 1938 to 1946 he was President of the Swiss Red Cross .

Life

Johannes von Muralt was born in Zurich in 1877 and came from the Zurich branch of the von Muralt family, who originally came from Ticino . He studied law at the universities of Berlin , Munich and Zurich , where he became a member of the Corps Tigurinia , and graduated in 1902 with a dissertation on parliamentary immunity in Germany and Switzerland . He was then a district attorney from 1903 to 1907.

From 1908 to 1932 he worked as an artillery instruction officer in the Swiss Army . In 1913 he was promoted to an officer in the general staff and in 1926 to colonel and in 1932 to division general. From 1932 to 1937 he was in the rank of colonel division commander of the Zurich field division 6 .

In 1938 he became President of the Swiss Red Cross and held the office until 1946. During the Second World War , he was Federal Commissioner for Internment and Hospitalization from 1940 to 1941. From 1944 to 1945, after the death of Norman Davis , he took over the leadership of the League of Red Cross Societies, today's International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies . Since the organization was founded in 1919, he was the organization's first non- US Chairman . He was succeeded by Basil O'Connor .

Johannes von Muralt died in his hometown in 1947.

Fonts

• Parliamentary immunity in Germany and Switzerland, taking into account the development of the same in England and France. 1902 (diss.)
• The maneuvers of the Swiss army. Zurich 1939
• The Corps Tigurinia Zurich. 1850-1940. Zurich 1940

Web links

• Peter Müller-Grieshaber: Muralt, Johannes von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement History - Jean de Muralt (English)