List of Swiss ambassadors in Cuba
history
In 1865, Switzerland opened the Swiss consulate in Havana , which was closed in 1876. In 1918 the consulate was reopened, upgraded to Consulate General in 1935, and in the same year the Swiss ambassador to the USA was also accredited to Cuba. In 1951 Switzerland opened an embassy in Havana, which was converted into an embassy in 1957. In 1961, the Swiss embassy represented US interests in Havana as a protective power , which maintained diplomatic channels between the two states during the Cold War , especially the Cuban Missile Crisis (the United States Interests Section was opened in Havana in 1977 ). In 1991 Switzerland also took over Cuban interests in the USA. Switzerland's protecting power mandates for Cuba and the USA only ended in 2015, when the two countries resumed diplomatic relations between them.
The Swiss Ambassador to Havana was in Haiti between 2003 and 2007 and has been accredited in Jamaica from 2003 until today .
Heads of mission
| appointment | Leave post | Surname | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 26, 1918 | December 24, 1919 | Hans Sulzer (1876-1959) | Envoy based in Washington, DC |
| November 04, 1919 | November 30, 1939 | Marc Peter (1873-1966) | Envoy based in Washington DC |
| June 27, 1939 | September 14, 1951 | Karl Bruggmann (1889–1967) | Envoy based in Washington DC |
| July 27, 1951 | June 29, 1954 | Ernest Schlatter (1905–1979) | Business support ( charge d'Affaires ) |
| July 06, 1954 | June 17, 1957 | Franco Brenni (1897–1963) | Envoy |
| July 12, 1957 | February 26, 1959 | Franco Brenni (1897–1963) | ambassador |
| February 03, 1959 | November 27, 1961 | Walter Bossi (1912–1998) | |
| January 09, 1961 | November 18, 1961 | Gaston Jaccard (1894-1991) | Chargé d'affaires ad interim (responsible for safeguarding US interests in Cuba) |
| November 24, 1961 | November 24, 1967 | Emil Stadelhofer (1915–1977) | Ambassador, temporarily chargé d'affaires ad interim between 7 July 1961 and until his appointment. |
| October 21, 1966 | January 28, 1971 | Alfred Fischli (1914–1992) | |
| September 28, 1970 | August 25, 1974 | Silvio Masnata (1915-2006) | |
| May 15, 1974 | April 09, 1978 | Etienne Serra (1916–1989) | |
| February 08, 1978 | May 31, 1980 | Jean-Pierre Ritter (1931-2000) | |
| May 25, 1980 | June 30, 1984 | Armin Kamer (1932-2007) | |
| October 1, 1984 | November 30, 1988 | Peter Hollenweger (* 1939) | |
| June 29, 1989 | June 06, 1992 | Marcus Kaiser (* 1942) | |
| 19th February 1992 | September 30, 1995 | Harald Borner (* 1933) | |
| February 22, 1995 | October 13, 1999 | Peter Friederich (* 1942) | |
| December 31, 1999 | August 13, 2004 | Jean-Claude Richard (* 1946) | Also accredited in Haiti (from 2003) and Jamaica (from 2003) |
| May 12, 2004 | January 05, 2009 | Bertrand Louis (* 1950) | Also accredited in Haiti (until 2007) and Jamaica |
| June 06, 2008 | 2013 | Peter Burkhard (* 1955) | Also accredited in Jamaica |
| 13th March 2013 | 2016 | Anne-Pascale Krauer Müller (* 1958) | Also accredited in Jamaica and Switzerland's first ambassador to Cuba |
| November 04, 2015 | 2019 | Marcel Stutz (* 1954) | Also accredited in Jamaica |
Web links
- Consulat général de Suisse à La Havane in the Dodis databaseof diplomatic documents of Switzerland
- Swiss Embassy in Havana (1957-) in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Federal Council Protocol No. 2827 of September 26, 1918.
