Léon Marchal

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Léon Marchal (born June 8, 1900 in Badonviller , Département Meurthe-et-Moselle , † September 24, 1956 in Strasbourg ) was a French diplomat who was Secretary General of the Council of Europe from 1953 until his death .

Life

Studies and beginning of the diplomatic career

After studying philosophy at the University of Strasbourg and the University of Paris, Marchal joined the foreign service in 1921 and was initially deputy head of the Consulate General in Montreal in 1929 and then head of the Consulate General there between 1932 and 1934. After he became Second Secretary at the Consulate General in Munich in 1934 and Consul 2nd Class at the General Resident in Morocco in 1935 , he was appointed Counselor 2nd Class at the Embassy in the USA in 1941 .

On April 23, 1942 Marchal was the Vichy regime dismissed before it on 15 August 1942 by the in London -based National Committee of France (Comité National Français) for financial support (charge d'affaires) in Canada was appointed. On November 5, 1942, Philippe Petain's Vichy government put Marchal on a list of French citizens deprived of their citizenship. The following year, in 1943, he became General Secretary and Head of Public Service at the Governor General of Algeria and Secretary General at the General Resident for Morocco and then Envoy Plenipotentiary to the General Resident for Morocco.

Ambassador and Secretary General of the Council of Europe

After the end of the Second World War he was accredited as ambassador to Pakistan in 1947 and then as ambassador to Thailand in 1949 .

In 1951 Marchal was France's representative at the United Nations Conciliation Commission in Palestine and then head of the Africa and Levant Department in the Foreign Ministry on the Quai d'Orsay .

After the death of Jacques Camille Paris on July 17, 1953, Marchal succeeded him as Secretary General of the Council of Europe on September 21, 1953. He held this office until his death on September 24, 1956. Only one year later, Lodovico Benvenuti , a successor was appointed on September 15, 1957.

Publications

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Florence Benoît-Rohmer, Heinrich Klebes: Council of Europe Law: Towards a Pan-European Legal Area . P. 72, ISBN 9-28715-594-1 , 2005
  2. ^ Klaus Brummer: The Council of Europe: An Introduction , p. 126, ISBN 3-53115-710-8 , 2008
  3. ^ Vichy: Two Years of Deception (book preview in The American Political Science Review , Vol. 37, No. 3, June 1943)