Julien Rossat

Julien Arthur Rossat (born June 13, 1901 in Lausanne , Canton of Vaud , † February 27, 1978 in Geneva ) was a Swiss diplomat .

Life

Rossat, son of Julien Rossat and his wife Elise Constance Jaccoud, completed a degree in economics at the University of Lausanne after attending school . Subsequently, in 1923, he initially worked in the Federal Military Department (Ministry of Defense, now the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport ) and then worked in the Finance and Customs Department (now the Federal Department of Finance ) until 1929 . He then entered the diplomatic service and on January 1, 1930, he became secretary in the Federal Political Department (Foreign Ministry, todayFederal Department of Foreign Affairs ). He then acted between February 7 and December 31, 1930 as administrator of the consulate in Marseille . After he had been provisional secretary at the consulate in Mulhouse from March 31 to April 6, 1930 , he was first secretary from April 7 to June 30, 1930 and then consul between July 1, 1930 and December 31, 1934 -Attaché at the consulate in Marseille. He then worked from January 1, 1935 to March 17, 1936 as Vice Consul at the consulate in Marseille. On March 5, 1937, he was appointed legation secretary and worked from March 17, 1937 to July 1940 as legation secretary at the legation in Japan , where between August 19, 1939 and 1940 he was ad interim acting head of the legation as chargé d' affaires.

After his return, Rossat was secretary of the diplomatic mission in July 1940 and was promoted to secretary of the diplomatic mission, first class, on December 24, 1940. During this time he was from 1941 to February 12, 1942 employee in the Commissariat for Internment and Hospitalization and then from February 12, 1942 to June 5, 1946 chargé d'affaires at the embassy in Colombia. As such, he received his promotion to Legation Council on December 22, 1944 and was again active in the Political Department from June 5, 1946 to September 10, 1947. This was followed by a position as a consul in Hamburg between September 10, 1947 and 1948 and then from February 24, 1948 to February 2, 1951 as head of the administrative affairs section in the political department.

On February 2, 1951, Rossat replaced Camille Gorgé as envoy in Turkey and held this position until April 5, 1957, after which Eric Kessler was his successor there. On January 5, 1959, he succeeded Jean Decroux as envoy to Ireland . After upgrading the legation to an embassy on April 16, 1962, he became the first Swiss ambassador to Ireland and held this office until he retired on December 31, 1966. He was succeeded there by Guy von Keller .

Web link

• Sarah Brian Scherer: Rossat, Julien. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Documents by and about Rossat, Julien in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland