Paul Jolles
Paul Rudolf Jolles (born December 25, 1919 in Bern ; † March 11, 2000 there ) was a Swiss diplomat .
Paul Jolles was a son of the journalist Leo Jolles and his wife Ida, b. Hegnauer. Jolles studied at the Universities of Bern , Lausanne and Harvard , where he received his doctorate with a dissertation The Theory of Civil Liberties in Swiss and American Constitutional Law . During his student days he joined the Swiss Zofingerverein . From 1943 he worked for the Swiss federal administration, initially in the Federal Political Department (today FDFA), where he was involved in the conclusion of the 1946 Agreement on German Assets in Switzerland in Washington, DC , and then in the Department of Economic Affairs . From 1957 to 1961 Jolles was deputy general director of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna .
In 1961, Federal Councilor Hans Schaffner brought him back to Bern as a delegate of the Federal Council for trade agreements. From 1966 to 1984 Jolles was Director of the Federal Office for Foreign Trade, from 1979 onwards with the rank of State Secretary . He played a key role in the negotiation of the bilateral free trade agreement of 1972 between Switzerland and the European Economic Community .
Paul Jolles was also President of the Kunsthalle Bern . After retiring from civil service, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nestlé Group and private lecturer at the University of Bern. He was an honorary doctorate in jurisprudence and in 1984, along with Fritz Leutwiler , winner of the Freedom Prize of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation .
Paul Jolles was with Erna Jolles, geb. Ryffel married.
His daughter, Claudia Jolles , has been editor-in-chief of the Swiss art magazine Kunstbulletin for many years .
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Jolles in the catalog of the German National Library
- Marc Perrenoud: Jolles, Paul R .. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
- Jolles, Paul in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
- Former State Secretary Paul Jolles has died , Swissinfo , March 14, 2000
- Estate at the Archives for Contemporary History (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schweizerischer Zofingerverein, Schweizerischer Altzofingerverein (Ed.): List of Members 1997. Zofingen 1997, p. 33. (Available in the Swiss National Library , call number SWR 1338.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jolles, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jolles, Paul Rudolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 2000 |
| Place of death | Bern |