List of Swiss ambassadors in Iran

In 1919 Switzerland opened a consulate in Tehran , which in 1936 was upgraded to an embassy.

The nationalization of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company , decided by Iran in 1951 , led to a conflict with the Commonwealth of Nations . From 1952 until Operation Ajax in 1953, Switzerland was the protective power of Australia and Canada in Iran .

From 1954 to 2001 the respective ambassador in Tehran was also accredited to the respective government of Afghanistan. Even after the occupation of Afghanistan by the Red Army , the Swiss government maintained its relationship with the government of Babrak Karmal in Kabul .

Since May 21, 1980, after the hostage-taking of Tehran , the embassy has housed the Foreign Interests Section , in which America is doing good offices for the United States. This office was headed by Wilhelm Schmid until 1982, Ernst Iten from 1982 to 1985 and Marco Kämpf until February 2009.

On September 17, 1981, an explosion damaged the embassy entrance door and windows. A group that describes itself as Armenian claimed to have been the originator of the attack, in which no one was injured.

Appointment accreditation	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited during the government of	Leave post
February 3, 1936	Armin Däniker	Envoy	Albert Meyer	Reza Shah Pahlavi	1945
February 9, 1945	Charles-Edouard de Bavier	Chargé d'affaires, envoy from February 25, 1947	Eduard von Steiger	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1951
June 22, 1951	Alfred Escher		Eduard von Steiger	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1954
17th September 1954	Roy Anton Ganz		Rodolphe Rubattel	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1959
March 13, 1959	Arturo Marcionelli		Paul Chaudet	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1963
March 29, 1963	Max King		Willy Spühler	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1970
4th February 1970	Daniel Gagnebin		Hans-Peter Tschudi	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1974
1972	Paul Stauffer	Chargé d'affaires	Hans-Peter Tschudi	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1974
September 30, 1975	Charles-Albert Wetterwald		Pierre Graber	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	1978
July 1, 1978	Erik-Roger Lang		Willy Ritschard	Mohammad Reza Pahlavi	July 31, 1981
November 1, 1981	Paul Stauffer		Kurt Furgler	Ali Khamenei	December 31, 1983
1984	Serge François Salvi		Leon Smurf	Ali Khamenei	1986
1st December 1986	Heinrich Reimann		Alphons Egli	Ali Khamenei	October 31, 1989
1989	Anton Greber		Jean-Pascal Delamuraz	Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	1993
1993	Rudolf Weiersmüller		Adolf Ogi	Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani	1999
1999	Tim Guldimann		Ruth Dreifuss	Mohammad Chātami	August 1, 2004
August 1, 2004	Philippe Welti		Joseph Deiss	Mohammad Chātami	January 15, 2009
January 15, 2009	Livia Leu Agosti		Hans-Rudolf Merz	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	Early July 2013
July, 1st 2013	Giulio Haas		Didier Burkhalter	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	26th August 2017
27th August 2017	Markus Leitner		Didier Burkhalter	Hassan Rouhani

literature

• Daniela Meier: Helvetia's good relationship with the peacock throne: Relations between Switzerland (1946–1978) , 2002, p. 307

Web links

• Swiss Embassy in Tehran in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marc Perrenoud: Iran. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .; Der Spiegel , December 12, 2010, Switzerland imposed itself on the USA as Iran mediator ; Switzerland has withdrawn the diplomat responsible for US relations with Iran from Tehran. Blick (newspaper) , February 9, 2009, [1]
2. ^ Marc Perrenoud: Däniker, Armin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
3. ^ Marc Perrenoud: Escher, Alfred (from the glass). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
4. ^ Marc Perrenoud: Ganz, Anton Roy. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
5. ↑ Werner Hagmann: Stauffer, Paul. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .