Robert Coulondre
Robert Coulondre (born September 11, 1885 in Nîmes , † March 6, 1959 in Paris ) was a French diplomat, most recently with the rank of ambassador .
He studied law and Chinese languages entered the consular service in 1908, became consul in London in May 1909, attaché in the office of the foreign minister in March 1912, he became an associate consul in Beirut in 1912, entered the diplomatic service in 1919 and succeeded in May 1919 Sent to Morocco . In January 1926 he was a delegate at Franco-Soviet economic negotiations. From 1927 to February 28, 1933 he headed the commercial relations department of the Direction des affaires politiques et commerciales and was then deputy director of the Direction des affaires politiques et commerciales on the Quai d'Orsay . He was an ambassador of the French Popular Front government in Moscow , later ambassador in Berlin to the declaration of war from France to Germany in September 1939. On September 3, 1939, he gave Joachim von Ribbentrop a statement in which the Government Edouard Daladier , the Hitler government to evacuate the occupied Polish Requested territories. From May to October 1940 he was envoy of the Vichy regime in Bern .
Fonts
- From Moscow to Berlin: 1936–1939. Memories of the French Ambassador , Athenäum-Verl., Bonn 1950 (French title: De Staline á Hitler. Souvenirs de deux ambassades, 1936-1939. , Paris 1950)
literature
- Franklin L. Ford and Carl E. Schorske: The Voice in the Wilderness: Robert Coulondre. ; in: Gordon A. Craig and Felix Gilbert (Eds.): The Diplomats, 1919-1939. , Pp. 555-578, Princeton University Press, Princeton, Reprint 1994, ISBN 0-69103-660-8
Web links
- Robert Coulondre in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Dossier in the 20th century press archive (ZBW)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralph Blessing, The Possible Peace : The Modernization of Foreign Policy and Franco-German Relations, p. 59
- ↑ Günther Fuchs, Udo Scholze, Detlev Zimmermann, Werden und Vergehen einer Demokratie , 2004, 263 p., P. 176
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Hervé Alphand |
French Ambassador to the Soviet Union September 25, 1936 to November 23, 1938 |
Paul-Émile Naggiar |
| André François-Poncet |
French Ambassador to Germany November 23, 1938 to September 3, 1939 |
André François-Poncet |
| Charles Hervé Alphand |
French envoy to Switzerland from May to October 1940 |
Robert Renom de La Baume |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Coulondre, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nîmes |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1959 |
| Place of death | Paris |