Jean de Muralt or Johannes von Muralt (18 July 1877, Zurich - 10 November 1947, Zurich), was a Swiss lawyer and the chairman of the International League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies from 1944 to 1945. He studied jurisprudence at the Universities of Berlin, Munich and Zurich, and in 1902 completed his studies with a dissertation on parliamentary immunity in

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and Switzerland. From 1903 to 1907 he worked as a district attorney, and from 1908 to 1932 worked in the Swiss Army as an artillery-training officer. In 1913, he was promoted to staff officer, in 1926 to

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then in 1932 to Divisionär. From 1932 to 1937, he was Oberstdivisionärs Kommandant of Zürcher Felddivision 6. In 1938, he became president of the Swiss Red Cross and held the office until 1946. During the Second World War, from 1940 to 1941, he was Swiss Federal Commissar for Internment and Hospitalisation. From 1944 to 1945, after the death of Norman Davis, he took over the leadership of the

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, now the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. He was the organization's first non-US chairman since it was founded in 1919. His successor was

Basil O'Connor Basil O'Connor (January 8, 1892 – March 9, 1972) was an American lawyer. In cooperation with U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt he started two foundations for the rehabilitation of polio patients and the research on polio prevention and tr ...

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Red Cross Biography
20th-century Swiss lawyers Presidents of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Swiss generals 1877 births 1947 deaths {{Switzerland-law-bio-stub